welcome to Moab Utah surrounded by
thousands of square miles of Mars like
Red Rock landscape and the mighty
Colorado River surprisingly Utah has
yielded fossils from more dinosaur
species than any other state and that
fact alone makes for a thrilling story
150 million years in the making it
involves the Civil War an incredible
cargo Airlift mission and the site of a
dig that could unearth a major discovery
a missing piece in the dinosaur family
tree let’s take a deeper look at had a
fossil and the long-lost see are linked
in the early 1800s there was this patch
of desert in eastern Utah that got some
attention for being an easy natural
crossing point on the Colorado River
along the old Spanish Trail good for
trade a few key railroad lines later
there was 1859 and a u.s. geological
expedition discovered this giant awesome
fossil in the area but before they can
unearth it civil war broke out yep and
the fossil was long forgotten for almost
150 years in 2014 National Geographic
Explorer John foster picked up where the
Civil War
and a few other scientists in the 80’s
and 90’s left off and his excavation
team began to find the remnants of a
sauropod huh
well you’ve probably heard of the
brontosaurus or the Brachiosaurus
they’re sauropods long necks long tails
four-legged eats leaves turns out they
have a common ancestor and at least in
North America it might be this guy
distro feeis but wait why are there
dinosaurs here where does this leave
eating dinosaur get his greens in the
desert well this arid desert was
actually a long lost seat 190 million
years ago this place was an oasis think
spring break sandbars drinks with little
umbrellas but like like the dinosaur
version
not a bad place for the potentially
oldest sauropod in north america to call
home relocating this dinosaur vertebrate
for research is no joke each piece
weighs a whopping 800 pounds and has to
be covered in plaster and the team is on
the edge of a cliff
sounds like a job for the dinosaur
fossil airlift cargo helicopter service
okay that’s that’s actually not really a
thing but watch this pretty unbelievable
but Foster and his team began unearthing
in this long-lost sea could be a missing
link in North America’s dinosaur family
tree
welcome to the family distro feeis but
that’s not the whole story for more
watch new episodes of Explorer on National Geographic
thousands of square miles of Mars like
Red Rock landscape and the mighty
Colorado River surprisingly Utah has
yielded fossils from more dinosaur
species than any other state and that
fact alone makes for a thrilling story
150 million years in the making it
involves the Civil War an incredible
cargo Airlift mission and the site of a
dig that could unearth a major discovery
a missing piece in the dinosaur family
tree let’s take a deeper look at had a
fossil and the long-lost see are linked
in the early 1800s there was this patch
of desert in eastern Utah that got some
attention for being an easy natural
crossing point on the Colorado River
along the old Spanish Trail good for
trade a few key railroad lines later
there was 1859 and a u.s. geological
expedition discovered this giant awesome
fossil in the area but before they can
unearth it civil war broke out yep and
the fossil was long forgotten for almost
150 years in 2014 National Geographic
Explorer John foster picked up where the
Civil War
and a few other scientists in the 80’s
and 90’s left off and his excavation
team began to find the remnants of a
sauropod huh
well you’ve probably heard of the
brontosaurus or the Brachiosaurus
they’re sauropods long necks long tails
four-legged eats leaves turns out they
have a common ancestor and at least in
North America it might be this guy
distro feeis but wait why are there
dinosaurs here where does this leave
eating dinosaur get his greens in the
desert well this arid desert was
actually a long lost seat 190 million
years ago this place was an oasis think
spring break sandbars drinks with little
umbrellas but like like the dinosaur
version
not a bad place for the potentially
oldest sauropod in north america to call
home relocating this dinosaur vertebrate
for research is no joke each piece
weighs a whopping 800 pounds and has to
be covered in plaster and the team is on
the edge of a cliff
sounds like a job for the dinosaur
fossil airlift cargo helicopter service
okay that’s that’s actually not really a
thing but watch this pretty unbelievable
but Foster and his team began unearthing
in this long-lost sea could be a missing
link in North America’s dinosaur family
tree
welcome to the family distro feeis but
that’s not the whole story for more
watch new episodes of Explorer on National Geographic
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