The Dinosaur Who Was Buried at Sea

Can we please just appreciate the fact that a man spent 6 years of his life cleaning up this fossil?

The fact that we can analyze stomach contents of a dinosaur is pretty rad.

"Beat the odds" she says. That's an understatement. That thing floated a couple hundred kilometers at sea and then down to the seabed before being covered, in an environment filled to bursting with creatures that specifically look for random floating nom-noms.

That's pretty incredible.

That fossil is incredible! You can almost see the animal as though it was still alive.

I remember being a kid, digging 6 inches deep in the backyard, expecting to find fossils. 😛

Can we appreciate a moment for Steve. He's not only supporting PBS but rather a lot of educational show on YT. Episode for Steve!

A friend of mine was working on this crew in Ft. Mac, Alberta when this fossil was found. He sent me pics when they found it. I still have a few of them. It was pretty exciting. A few years later, my wife and I went to Drumheller, (we go every so often, as we live in AB) of course we visit the Royal Tyrrell Museum every time. It was really something to see it there, knowing that our friend had been part of the crew that found it. Drumheller is one of the richest deposits of dinosaur fossils in the world, and their 2 museums are full of world class specimens. I feel lucky to live so close to it, and visit it every few years.

It’s so cool how these animals just walked the earth just hanging out. Billions of years later we still are searching and discovering the lite real beast that roamed the earth (and it’s seas ‘.-)

I'm so used to seeing fossils as just bare skeletons that seeing what amounts to a cast of the whole creature from the outside is just mind blowing. That was seriously amazing.

I live here!!! My dad had seen the remains in the bank when they were working on it, it got me into fossil hunting with great success! This fossil means so much to me and has shaped me as a person. Ive worked at the site where it where it was found as with my whole family, being around the fossil is a remarkable experience it’s energy is almost haunting, It’s my favourite fossil of all time and I will always be in debt to this fossil for changing my life

1:57 How did he end up in the deep sea? Jurassic mobsters, that’s how! He tried to convince the Ankylosaur gang he was going to turn on Don Dinosaur but the Ankylosaurs saw through him and the and next thing you know, “Nodosaur sleeps with the fishes.”

Also explains why the head was disconnected from the rest of the body. 0:54 The Ankylosaurs garroted him before they dropped him in the water.

My cousin was actually the one who found this when he was mining for sun core and they said when they dug into the ground they new it was a fossil. But the fact the tail is missing is because the original mining caused damage to it and was accidentally extracted as rubble and was dumped and never found sadly

The sharp eyed equipment operator at Suncor deserves credit for acting quickly. He saw something strange high up on a near vertical wall he was stripping with a mining excavator. The entire fossil is available to science because he shut down the local production due to a perceived material anomaly. Suncor then went to considerable effort and expense to facilitate the collection of this specimen. The logistics of transportation were very challenging as the fossil is very massive and very delicate. It takes a lot more than science and arduous lab work to bring these discoveries to light.

If the worker was using a bucket with teeth, the excavator would've gone through the fossil with far more aggressive smashing and such. Really lucky there. Also big thank you to that observant and thoughtful worker.

The host seem to enjoy what she's doing which is rare nowadays especially talking about dinosaurs.

Thank you PBS Eons for acknowledging the under-represented people of the lands where these fossils were discovered.

Kallie makes "Bloat and Float" sound so much more fun than it probably is 😂

"The Dinosaur Who Was Buried at Sea."
Never knew there was a Dino Navy. Sounds like an episode of The Flintstones.

Found in my home province! Acknowledgement of the indigenous was very heartwarming and it was very much appreciated :)

I went to see this beautiful nodosaur in person and I cried because a) I'm a mess b) it's just so beautiful. Truly looks like its about to come back to life and walk right out of the building.