1 00:00:02,429 --> 00:00:03,430 Carly, hold up! 2 00:00:03,563 --> 00:00:05,932 Hey, guys, glad you're here. We're heading somewhere amazing, 3 00:00:06,066 --> 00:00:08,401 -and I think you're gonna love it. -CARLY: Charlie, come on! 4 00:00:08,535 --> 00:00:09,603 Hey! Weird but true, 5 00:00:09,736 --> 00:00:11,738 there was a dinosaur called an Argentinosaurus. 6 00:00:11,871 --> 00:00:14,040 It was the size of three buses. 7 00:00:15,508 --> 00:00:19,879 And another dinosaur, the Edmontosaurus, had more than a thousand teeth. Come on! 8 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:24,484 (GROANS) Just think, guys, that's a lot of potential dinosaur fossils. 9 00:00:24,851 --> 00:00:26,886 -(EXHALES) Okay, Charlie, this way. -All right. 10 00:00:27,020 --> 00:00:28,955 And that's exactly what we're looking for today. 11 00:00:29,889 --> 00:00:33,059 -It's time for Weird But True! -CARLY: It's time for Weird But True! 12 00:00:35,395 --> 00:00:38,231 CHARLIE: Did you know there are more stars in the sky 13 00:00:38,565 --> 00:00:41,201 than grains of sand on the whole planet? 14 00:00:41,568 --> 00:00:43,470 -Whoa! -This is incredible. 15 00:00:43,586 --> 00:00:45,221 -I know, right? -Charlie here. 16 00:00:45,338 --> 00:00:46,773 -Yeah! -Carly here. 17 00:00:46,973 --> 00:00:48,108 -Yes! -CHARLIE: We're best friends. 18 00:00:48,274 --> 00:00:49,542 -Oh, let's go! -Oh, let's go! 19 00:00:49,709 --> 00:00:52,846 -CARLY: Here in Chicago, on our new home. -CHARLIE: With a little imagination... 20 00:00:53,113 --> 00:00:54,514 For the rest of time. 21 00:00:54,681 --> 00:00:56,449 CARLY: And a whole lot of exploring. 22 00:00:56,549 --> 00:00:58,351 (MUFFLED) Hello. This is so epic! 23 00:00:58,518 --> 00:01:01,021 CHARLIE: We're discovering just how weird the world can be. 24 00:01:01,154 --> 00:01:02,255 -Hey! -We made it! 25 00:01:02,489 --> 00:01:03,957 CARLY: This is unreal. 26 00:01:04,190 --> 00:01:06,526 (MUSIC PLAYING) 27 00:01:08,094 --> 00:01:09,396 -CARLY: Dinosaurs. -CHARLIE: Dinosaurs. 28 00:01:09,663 --> 00:01:11,464 -Hey, guys, Charlie here. -Carly here. 29 00:01:11,665 --> 00:01:13,533 You know our friends, Patrick and Casey. 30 00:01:14,033 --> 00:01:16,202 The new Alabama Cones movie is coming out. 31 00:01:16,436 --> 00:01:20,040 -As you can see, we're her biggest fans. -Yeah, we got our cool hats. 32 00:01:20,373 --> 00:01:24,144 And our own homemade relic necklaces we made out of these weird stone beads 33 00:01:24,343 --> 00:01:26,746 from the beach. Check out the new movie trailer. 34 00:01:26,980 --> 00:01:27,981 (CLICKS) 35 00:01:29,949 --> 00:01:31,184 NARRATOR: In a world... 36 00:01:32,152 --> 00:01:35,321 overrun by robot dinosaurs... 37 00:01:35,522 --> 00:01:36,556 -FEMALE VOICE: Mr. President. -Yes? 38 00:01:36,690 --> 00:01:38,391 FEMALE VOICE: The Robo-dinos, they're back! 39 00:01:38,525 --> 00:01:39,926 -Back? -(GROWLING) 40 00:01:40,126 --> 00:01:42,328 NARRATOR: A hero will rise. 41 00:01:42,696 --> 00:01:46,332 All right, Bama, time to bring home the bacon. 42 00:01:47,133 --> 00:01:49,703 NARRATOR: Alabama Cones returns in... 43 00:01:49,869 --> 00:01:51,204 (SCREAMS) 44 00:01:51,471 --> 00:01:54,407 NARRATOR: Alabama Cones and the Dino Dragoon. 45 00:01:55,074 --> 00:01:57,944 In theaters everywhere this weekend. 46 00:01:59,312 --> 00:02:01,014 -Whoa! -Oh, my gosh! 47 00:02:01,147 --> 00:02:04,084 -Oh, my gosh! -This is gonna be the greatest movie ever! 48 00:02:04,250 --> 00:02:06,453 -I am so pumped about this movie! -CHARLIE: Mm. 49 00:02:06,786 --> 00:02:08,922 Guess who gets to go to the Chicago premiere? 50 00:02:09,389 --> 00:02:10,457 Who? 51 00:02:10,657 --> 00:02:12,992 -Boom! -(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) 52 00:02:14,561 --> 00:02:15,628 These guys! 53 00:02:16,262 --> 00:02:17,230 -How? -What? 54 00:02:17,297 --> 00:02:19,165 Tickets are, like, a bajillion dollars! 55 00:02:19,432 --> 00:02:21,267 It pays to be an amazing chef, Charles. 56 00:02:21,468 --> 00:02:24,170 I got asked to cater the premiere, and Patrick is gonna be my sous-chef. 57 00:02:24,337 --> 00:02:26,072 Because I don't mind taking out the compost. 58 00:02:26,306 --> 00:02:28,007 -Ta-ta, you two. -CASEY: Toodles. 59 00:02:30,043 --> 00:02:31,044 What? 60 00:02:31,277 --> 00:02:33,046 We gotta figure out how to get to that premiere. 61 00:02:33,212 --> 00:02:34,681 -But, how? -(SHARPLY INHALES) 62 00:02:36,649 --> 00:02:39,619 (SCREAMS) 63 00:02:41,921 --> 00:02:47,694 (HOOTS, SCREAMS) 64 00:02:48,128 --> 00:02:50,096 -(GASPS) Carly! -What? 65 00:02:50,463 --> 00:02:53,433 Think. How does Alabama Cones make all of her money? 66 00:02:54,667 --> 00:02:56,970 She rips dinosaur bones out of the earth, 67 00:02:57,103 --> 00:02:58,705 and then sells them for boat-loads of cash. 68 00:02:58,872 --> 00:03:01,641 Exactly. See, maybe, we could do the same thing. 69 00:03:02,175 --> 00:03:04,911 If we could find some dinosaur bones of our own. 70 00:03:05,178 --> 00:03:08,314 -Maybe we can make enough money... -To get tickets to go to the premiere! 71 00:03:08,515 --> 00:03:11,317 Yes! But I don't know anything about that stuff. 72 00:03:11,785 --> 00:03:14,487 Neither do I. Well, I guess that means today, 73 00:03:14,687 --> 00:03:16,289 we're unraveling the world of... 74 00:03:19,258 --> 00:03:20,493 -Dinosaurs. -CARLY: Dinosaurs. 75 00:03:22,595 --> 00:03:24,297 -(KEYBOARD CLACKING) -CHARLIE: All right, guys. 76 00:03:24,564 --> 00:03:26,566 First things first. Dinosaurs. 77 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:29,169 They were giant reptiles that roamed the earth 78 00:03:29,302 --> 00:03:32,138 over 200 million years ago. 79 00:03:33,873 --> 00:03:37,143 There were big ones like this guy, Patagotitan mayorum... 80 00:03:38,244 --> 00:03:40,480 who weighed as much as twelve elephants. 81 00:03:41,681 --> 00:03:43,616 And smaller ones, like the Parvicursor... 82 00:03:44,617 --> 00:03:46,619 which was about the size of a pigeon. 83 00:03:48,154 --> 00:03:52,058 Get this. Dinosaur fossils have been found on every continent. 84 00:03:52,392 --> 00:03:54,928 People are finding incredible specimens all the time. 85 00:03:55,228 --> 00:03:56,229 (DINOSAUR ROARS) 86 00:03:56,429 --> 00:03:59,632 CHARLIE: One day, while looking through a pile of rocks near his home in Chile, 87 00:03:59,799 --> 00:04:03,269 seven-year-old Diego Suarez stumbled upon something amazing. 88 00:04:04,103 --> 00:04:05,271 He found a bunch of fossils 89 00:04:05,405 --> 00:04:08,541 from an entirely unknown species of dinosaur. 90 00:04:08,875 --> 00:04:13,546 Diego became the youngest person ever to discover a new dinosaur species, 91 00:04:13,813 --> 00:04:17,984 and scientists named it Chilesaurus diegosuarezi in his honor. 92 00:04:18,351 --> 00:04:19,552 DIEGO: Yay! 93 00:04:20,820 --> 00:04:22,722 -Carly, this is incredible! -I know, right? 94 00:04:22,856 --> 00:04:25,124 Yeah. It's like you don't have to be a super smart scientist 95 00:04:25,258 --> 00:04:26,359 to find one of these things. 96 00:04:26,492 --> 00:04:28,294 -You can be... -A kid playing outside. 97 00:04:28,661 --> 00:04:32,098 Or two people who are trying to get a bunch of cash to buy some tickets 98 00:04:32,298 --> 00:04:34,634 to meet their favorite movie star paleontologist! 99 00:04:34,767 --> 00:04:36,736 -That's us! -Now let's go find one! 100 00:04:36,870 --> 00:04:39,505 All right, we'll meet you in the backyard for some digging. See you there. 101 00:04:41,908 --> 00:04:43,142 -Charles. -Carls. 102 00:04:43,376 --> 00:04:44,377 Let's get digging. 103 00:04:45,678 --> 00:04:46,980 -(CHARLIE GRUNTING) -(CARLY GRUNTING) 104 00:04:47,914 --> 00:04:49,082 (CHARLIE GRUNTING) 105 00:04:50,116 --> 00:04:52,685 Carly! Nothing's working! 106 00:04:52,952 --> 00:04:55,555 -CARLY: I think we need help. -CHARLIE: Yeah. We need like, Bama. 107 00:04:56,522 --> 00:04:58,992 (SIGHS) He's right. 108 00:04:59,759 --> 00:05:00,760 All right, Carly. 109 00:05:01,060 --> 00:05:03,563 (INHALES DEEPLY) Time to bring home the bacon. 110 00:05:04,898 --> 00:05:06,566 (GRUNTS, EXHALES) 111 00:05:11,604 --> 00:05:12,672 Carly! 112 00:05:12,939 --> 00:05:14,140 -CARLY: What? -I found something! 113 00:05:14,307 --> 00:05:15,308 I'm coming. 114 00:05:16,910 --> 00:05:19,345 -Check it out, look what we found. -CHARLIE: It's so cool! 115 00:05:19,679 --> 00:05:22,181 Okay, I'm gonna put it up for sale on Craftbook. 116 00:05:22,348 --> 00:05:25,418 Charlie, what do you think? Like, ten, 15,000 dollars? 117 00:05:25,551 --> 00:05:28,588 Oh, I'd say like, 20, right? You know, gives us room to negotiate. 118 00:05:28,922 --> 00:05:31,925 Yes. Okay. "For sale. 119 00:05:32,558 --> 00:05:34,227 "New discovery. 120 00:05:34,827 --> 00:05:35,995 "Amazing..." 121 00:05:37,096 --> 00:05:38,665 -Rare, super rare. -I don't even... ...Oh, "rare..." 122 00:05:38,798 --> 00:05:42,335 -Yeah. -"...pre-historic dinosaur bone." 123 00:05:42,502 --> 00:05:44,337 Ooh! It's a dinosaur fossil. 124 00:05:44,570 --> 00:05:48,608 Uh. "Dinosaur fossil." Wait, what's the difference? 125 00:05:48,841 --> 00:05:51,044 It's kinda tricky. But it's like, over time, 126 00:05:51,177 --> 00:05:53,746 dinosaur bones turn into dinosaur fossils. 127 00:05:54,147 --> 00:05:55,882 Cool, right? Here's what I'm talking about. 128 00:05:57,283 --> 00:06:00,186 After a long time of stomping around doing dino stuff, 129 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:02,855 every dinosaur eventually passes away. 130 00:06:03,889 --> 00:06:08,194 Sometimes, its body becomes buried under layers of dirt and debris. 131 00:06:08,561 --> 00:06:13,566 Over time, the soft parts of its body, like the skin and the muscles, decompose, 132 00:06:13,733 --> 00:06:17,837 and the hard bones are left behind. Then, if we take a closer look, 133 00:06:17,971 --> 00:06:22,308 over millions and millions of years, water creeps into these bones. 134 00:06:22,442 --> 00:06:27,213 Very slowly, minerals in the water replace the materials in the bones. 135 00:06:27,447 --> 00:06:29,716 Piece by piece, bit by bit, 136 00:06:29,949 --> 00:06:34,120 until the bone is entirely replaced by a solid rock. 137 00:06:34,287 --> 00:06:37,390 Boom. Now it's turned from a bone into a fossil. 138 00:06:38,524 --> 00:06:41,894 -Okay, so fossils are not dinosaur bones? -Correct. 139 00:06:42,128 --> 00:06:44,364 They're like exact copies of dinosaur bones, 140 00:06:44,630 --> 00:06:47,533 made out of rock, that take millions of years to form. 141 00:06:47,967 --> 00:06:53,506 Hmm. Okay. "Super old, dinosaur fossil from..." 142 00:06:53,873 --> 00:06:57,310 -What kind of dinosaur is this from? -Ooh, what if it's, like, a Brontosaurus? 143 00:06:57,410 --> 00:06:59,912 -Ooh, or a Psittacosaurus. -Huh, a Psittaco-- What? 144 00:07:00,346 --> 00:07:01,748 Psittacosaurus, do you know about those? 145 00:07:01,881 --> 00:07:03,616 -No. -Oh, you are gonna love this! 146 00:07:04,884 --> 00:07:07,320 CHARLIE: Gather, everybody. Gather this direction. 147 00:07:07,453 --> 00:07:09,589 All right, move forward. Oh, that's good. (CHUCKLES) 148 00:07:10,023 --> 00:07:12,825 The dinosaurs are extinct, though, you're okay, right there. 149 00:07:13,126 --> 00:07:16,763 So, we've arrived at our first stop of the dinosaur walk of fame. 150 00:07:16,996 --> 00:07:22,101 Opened 250 million years ago, the Dinowood Theater 151 00:07:22,335 --> 00:07:25,204 features some of the most famous dinosaur celebrities 152 00:07:25,605 --> 00:07:27,173 -ever to walk the earth. -CARLY: Mm. 153 00:07:27,473 --> 00:07:30,343 Follow me over in this direction, yellow hat, everybody, 154 00:07:30,676 --> 00:07:33,012 where we'll find a wonderful pair of prints 155 00:07:33,279 --> 00:07:38,684 -by Linhenykus and Therizinosaurus. -So big and so small. 156 00:07:38,918 --> 00:07:40,353 (CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING) 157 00:07:41,154 --> 00:07:43,322 CHARLIE: Linhenykus was a funny lookin' fella. 158 00:07:43,756 --> 00:07:46,559 Weird but true, instead of an arm on each side of its body, 159 00:07:46,793 --> 00:07:48,428 it had one single finger. 160 00:07:48,694 --> 00:07:51,664 On the other side of the spectrum, is the Therizinosaurus. 161 00:07:51,864 --> 00:07:57,570 It had two arms, each with three fingers and giant three-foot long claws. 162 00:07:58,037 --> 00:07:59,972 Definitely a sight to behold. 163 00:08:00,173 --> 00:08:03,443 But our favorite, right over here, is the Psittacosaurus. 164 00:08:04,110 --> 00:08:08,848 Weird but true, Psittacosaurus had an enormous beak, like a big parrot. 165 00:08:09,215 --> 00:08:12,785 To top it off, it had a big bundle of bristles on its tail. 166 00:08:13,119 --> 00:08:17,190 It was basically an enormous parrot, porcupine, and a dinosaur, 167 00:08:17,323 --> 00:08:19,392 all jumbled into one animal. 168 00:08:19,826 --> 00:08:24,063 -There's so many cool dinosaurs! -I know. But what cool dinosaur 169 00:08:24,230 --> 00:08:26,199 -did this come from? -Hmm. (INHALES SHARPLY) 170 00:08:26,466 --> 00:08:28,501 -I don't know. -I think we need help. 171 00:08:28,968 --> 00:08:31,604 And I know just the person. ReBecca Hunt-Foster. 172 00:08:32,205 --> 00:08:35,541 She's a paleontologist in Utah who studies dinosaur fossils. 173 00:08:35,842 --> 00:08:38,511 Perfect! All right, guys, looks like it's time to head out. 174 00:08:38,845 --> 00:08:41,647 We'll leave this here for safekeeping, and gear up to go. 175 00:08:41,814 --> 00:08:44,250 Sounds good? All right, guys, we'll see you in Utah. 176 00:08:48,187 --> 00:08:51,424 We're off to Dinosaur National Monument in Jensen, Utah. 177 00:08:52,625 --> 00:08:55,061 Utah isn't just home to tons of dinosaur fossils, 178 00:08:55,228 --> 00:08:56,829 the Great Salt Lake is here, too. 179 00:08:57,029 --> 00:09:00,166 And, weird but true, it's three times saltier than the ocean. 180 00:09:01,634 --> 00:09:03,736 (MUSIC PLAYING) 181 00:09:10,877 --> 00:09:15,481 (GASPS) Guys, you made it! We're here in Dinosaur National Monument in Utah. 182 00:09:15,681 --> 00:09:18,651 -This place is unreal. -There's so much to see. 183 00:09:19,118 --> 00:09:20,219 Let's check it out. 184 00:09:20,953 --> 00:09:23,322 Look at this big guy. This is an Allosaurus. 185 00:09:23,956 --> 00:09:27,426 Weird but true, most states have their very own state fossil, 186 00:09:27,727 --> 00:09:30,563 and the Allosaurus is the state fossil of Utah. 187 00:09:30,997 --> 00:09:32,265 Charlie, come here. 188 00:09:32,798 --> 00:09:34,467 Did you know you can touch the bones here? 189 00:09:34,634 --> 00:09:36,636 -That's crazy. -CARLY: My hand is on a fossil 190 00:09:36,769 --> 00:09:39,372 -that is 149 million years old. -CHARLIE: Whoa! 191 00:09:40,306 --> 00:09:42,508 Carly, is that Alabama Cones? 192 00:09:43,476 --> 00:09:45,678 (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) 193 00:09:48,414 --> 00:09:49,849 Hey, Charlie. Hey, Carly. 194 00:09:50,283 --> 00:09:51,717 -Oh, hey, ReBecca! -Hey! 195 00:09:52,451 --> 00:09:54,387 CHARLIE: ReBecca Hunt-Foster became interested 196 00:09:54,487 --> 00:09:57,823 in paleontology, the study of fossils, when she was only 13. 197 00:09:58,291 --> 00:10:02,595 And now, she's a paleontologist here at Dinosaur National Monument. 198 00:10:02,795 --> 00:10:05,932 Her favorite weird but true fact is that a close living relative 199 00:10:06,065 --> 00:10:09,835 -of T-Rex is... a chicken! -(CHICKEN CLUCKS) 200 00:10:10,536 --> 00:10:13,372 This is incredible. Can you tell us what's going on with this wall? 201 00:10:13,506 --> 00:10:17,043 REBECCA: This is a 149-million-year-old deposit of dinosaur bones. 202 00:10:17,376 --> 00:10:19,779 These were all deposited during a storm event, 203 00:10:19,946 --> 00:10:22,148 where all these bodies were washed into a river channel. 204 00:10:22,415 --> 00:10:26,152 Wow! Which kinds of dinosaurs are we seeing here? 205 00:10:26,352 --> 00:10:27,553 A lot of the dinosaurs that you'll see here 206 00:10:27,787 --> 00:10:31,891 are things like Allosaurus, Apatosaurus, Diplodocus, and even Stegosaurus. 207 00:10:32,508 --> 00:10:35,595 Right behind you, you can actually see an Allosaurus tooth. 208 00:10:35,728 --> 00:10:37,363 -(GASPS) What? -CHARLIE: It's right here? Whoa. 209 00:10:37,496 --> 00:10:39,498 REBECCA: And then right over there, you can see a femur 210 00:10:39,665 --> 00:10:41,467 that's been chewed on by an Allosaurus. 211 00:10:41,667 --> 00:10:44,170 And you can see some gnaw marks where it was chewed on. 212 00:10:44,370 --> 00:10:47,240 And this is, like, a T-Rex size dinosaur, right? 213 00:10:47,373 --> 00:10:49,508 Well, the Allosaurus is a little smaller than T-Rex. 214 00:10:49,809 --> 00:10:51,277 These animals were already fossils 215 00:10:51,344 --> 00:10:52,778 -by the time T-Rex lived here. -CHARLIE: Wow. 216 00:10:52,878 --> 00:10:54,847 -Cool. -That's a weird, but true fact for ya. 217 00:10:54,981 --> 00:10:56,849 It's hard to kinda put this into perspective, 218 00:10:56,983 --> 00:10:58,684 'cause it's like, two stories tall. 219 00:10:58,918 --> 00:11:01,420 How many fossils do you think are on this wall right here? 220 00:11:01,621 --> 00:11:03,222 There's hundreds of fossils in this wall. 221 00:11:03,356 --> 00:11:04,991 -CARLY: Wow. -Have you dug up anything here? 222 00:11:05,491 --> 00:11:07,760 REBECCA: Not inside the building, but we're digging some stuff up outside. 223 00:11:07,860 --> 00:11:08,861 -Do you wanna go see it? -CHARLIE: Yes. 224 00:11:09,028 --> 00:11:10,496 -CARLY: Yes. -REBECCA: All right, let's go. 225 00:11:14,700 --> 00:11:16,702 This is a great place to find fossils. 226 00:11:16,869 --> 00:11:19,238 If you're a paleontologist, you know you wanna be here. 227 00:11:19,538 --> 00:11:22,541 When I look over there, I know that those grey rocks are marine rocks, 228 00:11:22,675 --> 00:11:24,577 and I'll find animals in there, like fish. 229 00:11:24,910 --> 00:11:27,847 The hard sandstone behind it represents an ancient shoreline, 230 00:11:27,980 --> 00:11:31,951 and I might find dinosaur tracks up there. Behind that, we find an ancient river, 231 00:11:32,084 --> 00:11:33,753 and that's where the dinosaurs are preserved. 232 00:11:34,020 --> 00:11:36,622 Is it kinda safe to say a great place to find fossils 233 00:11:36,756 --> 00:11:39,292 is a place where water used to be a long time ago? 234 00:11:39,425 --> 00:11:42,361 That's right. You need water to be able to preserve fossils. 235 00:11:42,528 --> 00:11:45,331 -That's where we're gonna find bones? -REBECCA: That's where the bone bed is. 236 00:11:46,165 --> 00:11:50,403 Cool science word, "Bone bed." It's a giant accumulation of fossils. 237 00:11:50,603 --> 00:11:52,872 So a place where you can find tons of fossils. 238 00:11:53,272 --> 00:11:54,340 Let's go see 'em. 239 00:11:55,341 --> 00:11:57,810 CARLY: Yes! Bones, bones, bones. 240 00:11:58,811 --> 00:12:00,313 REBECCA: So in this ancient river channel, 241 00:12:00,513 --> 00:12:03,683 we actually have a lot of dinosaur bones exposed and preserved. 242 00:12:04,183 --> 00:12:07,887 Here we see a very large sauropod femur, that's your upper leg bone. 243 00:12:08,054 --> 00:12:09,388 Here's another dinosaur bone. 244 00:12:09,755 --> 00:12:12,224 There's a set of vertebra over there, and even a rib. 245 00:12:12,558 --> 00:12:15,161 So this whole outcrop is full of dinosaur bones. 246 00:12:15,294 --> 00:12:18,130 All right, let's get it out of here, it is time to bring home the bacon! 247 00:12:18,264 --> 00:12:19,298 -Yeah. -Bacon? 248 00:12:19,432 --> 00:12:20,883 -Like, in the Alabama Cones movies. -Yeah. 249 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:23,135 She's like, "All right, Bama, time to bring home the bacon." 250 00:12:23,402 --> 00:12:26,038 Then she reaches down, and then rips it out of ground. 251 00:12:26,339 --> 00:12:28,507 -Giant fossil, hooray! Right? Yeah. -Money. 252 00:12:28,774 --> 00:12:30,343 Real paleontologists don't do that. 253 00:12:30,609 --> 00:12:32,078 We like to be very careful with the fossils, 254 00:12:32,211 --> 00:12:36,082 and excavate them very thoughtfully and very slowly, because these are unique. 255 00:12:36,382 --> 00:12:37,650 Wait, they made like, five movies. 256 00:12:37,783 --> 00:12:39,285 -about the stuff she does. Yeah. -Yeah, there's gonna be a sixth, too. 257 00:12:39,485 --> 00:12:42,388 Alabama Cones is just a character. She's not real. 258 00:12:42,655 --> 00:12:44,423 A lot of times, they just make that stuff up. 259 00:12:45,624 --> 00:12:46,826 Babylon's in the Patrivia job 260 00:12:46,926 --> 00:12:48,227 -for three million. -(KNOCKING) 261 00:12:48,427 --> 00:12:51,397 -I love this guy. -CHARLIE: Best in the biz, baby, yeah! 262 00:12:51,630 --> 00:12:53,265 -Oh, who are these guys, huh? -Making movies. 263 00:12:53,966 --> 00:12:55,634 We're the paleontologists. 264 00:12:55,768 --> 00:12:57,236 (CRICKETS CHIRPING) 265 00:12:57,603 --> 00:12:59,238 To advise you on the script. 266 00:12:59,638 --> 00:13:00,673 (CRICKETS CHIRPING) 267 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:02,007 Oh! The dino guys! 268 00:13:02,208 --> 00:13:05,311 -Oh! The dino movie, yeah! -All right, check this out. 269 00:13:05,711 --> 00:13:09,382 We open on our movie star, Ricky Babylon, running from a T-Rex. 270 00:13:10,416 --> 00:13:12,785 It catches him... chomps him down. 271 00:13:13,419 --> 00:13:14,487 (RICKY GROANS) 272 00:13:14,954 --> 00:13:18,624 CHARLIE: Ricky grows scales, turns into a Velociraptor, 273 00:13:18,758 --> 00:13:20,126 and saves the world. 274 00:13:21,026 --> 00:13:22,795 What do you think, huh? 275 00:13:23,429 --> 00:13:26,665 Let's, uh-- Let's start with the speed of the T-Rex. 276 00:13:27,466 --> 00:13:29,668 The research suggests that with a top speed 277 00:13:29,802 --> 00:13:31,837 -of around ten miles per hour... -RICKY: Later 'gator! 278 00:13:31,971 --> 00:13:34,006 ...you could easily outrun a T-Rex. 279 00:13:34,273 --> 00:13:38,411 CARLY: Then there's the roaring. Dinosaurs didn't actually roar. 280 00:13:38,544 --> 00:13:42,381 They more likely grunted, like crocodiles. Or cooed like pigeons. 281 00:13:42,915 --> 00:13:46,819 CHARLIE: Then the scales. Turns out, most dinosaurs had feathers. 282 00:13:47,153 --> 00:13:48,397 -(TURKEY GOBBLES) -CARLY: And the truth is, 283 00:13:48,487 --> 00:13:51,190 Velociraptors were more like the size of a turkey. 284 00:13:51,590 --> 00:13:53,659 -Wait, wait, wait. -Wait... wait, you're tellin' me, 285 00:13:53,893 --> 00:13:56,595 you're telling us that T-Rexes were slow? 286 00:13:56,929 --> 00:14:00,266 -Dinos didn't roar? -Nearly all of them had feathers? 287 00:14:00,399 --> 00:14:02,902 And a Velociraptor was the size of a turkey? 288 00:14:04,303 --> 00:14:05,971 -Yes. -That is correct. 289 00:14:06,188 --> 00:14:07,122 (SIGHS) 290 00:14:07,406 --> 00:14:09,041 -Listen, baby. -Baby, come on. 291 00:14:09,208 --> 00:14:10,209 They need the roar. 292 00:14:10,443 --> 00:14:13,212 Yeah, they wanna see a man get chomped by a dino, 293 00:14:13,345 --> 00:14:15,381 and turn into a giant Velociraptor. 294 00:14:16,115 --> 00:14:19,852 But, uh, I mean, none of that is correct, according to the science. 295 00:14:20,853 --> 00:14:23,689 This ain't science class. It's showbiz. 296 00:14:25,991 --> 00:14:28,727 -Velociraptors were the size of turkeys? -Yup. 297 00:14:29,295 --> 00:14:32,331 And, you don't just reach over and pull them out of the rocks? 298 00:14:32,531 --> 00:14:34,166 -No. -Well, what do you do? 299 00:14:34,333 --> 00:14:35,468 (CHUCKLING) Come on, I'll show you. 300 00:14:38,070 --> 00:14:40,072 -Hey, guys. -Oh, hey. 301 00:14:40,239 --> 00:14:42,975 So, this is Julia, Kellyn, and Thuat, my interns, 302 00:14:43,209 --> 00:14:44,743 and they're here digging up a bone today. 303 00:14:45,411 --> 00:14:50,449 We're starting by uncovering the sediment. And then, we're going to pull it out. 304 00:14:50,716 --> 00:14:56,589 We're the first people to see this bone for 149 million years. 305 00:14:56,789 --> 00:14:58,724 (BOTH GASP) 306 00:14:59,792 --> 00:15:01,660 This must take, like, a super long time, right? 307 00:15:01,794 --> 00:15:04,196 This is in what we call a mudstone. 308 00:15:04,396 --> 00:15:06,799 And this stuff, as you can see, it crumbles really easily. 309 00:15:06,932 --> 00:15:08,167 -Super crumbly. Yeah. -What? 310 00:15:08,300 --> 00:15:11,604 But for something that's in a really hard sandstone, 311 00:15:11,804 --> 00:15:13,105 it might take even a month 312 00:15:13,239 --> 00:15:14,373 -if it's a really big project. -Whoa! 313 00:15:14,507 --> 00:15:15,574 What? 314 00:15:16,175 --> 00:15:18,444 THUAT: For larger things, we have these rock hammers 315 00:15:18,611 --> 00:15:20,212 for splitting and prying rocks apart. 316 00:15:20,713 --> 00:15:22,681 -So you start with the hammer... -THUAT: Hmm. 317 00:15:22,948 --> 00:15:25,551 ...get away the big stuff, and then you kinda work your way down 318 00:15:25,684 --> 00:15:28,554 to the more tinier things, then end with the brush to dust it off. 319 00:15:28,687 --> 00:15:30,289 -JULIA: Yeah! -All right, tell us what to do. 320 00:15:30,422 --> 00:15:33,092 Okay, so, I would take a tool like an awl. 321 00:15:33,225 --> 00:15:35,427 -Yeah. -And you're gonna gently go around 322 00:15:35,561 --> 00:15:38,364 the bone to get the sediment away from it. 323 00:15:38,497 --> 00:15:39,932 -Be gentle. -Yeah. (CHUCKLES) 324 00:15:40,232 --> 00:15:41,467 And then, what you can do is 325 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:42,601 -take a brush.... -Uh-huh. 326 00:15:42,935 --> 00:15:45,337 ...and just kinda brush the sediment away from there... 327 00:15:45,471 --> 00:15:47,506 -CARLY: Okay. -...and keep the bone clean. 328 00:15:47,673 --> 00:15:48,741 CARLY: I'm behind you with the brush. 329 00:15:48,874 --> 00:15:50,910 This dirt is super brittle, you guys aren't lying. 330 00:15:51,243 --> 00:15:54,246 JULIA: Exactly. So this type of thing won't take very long. 331 00:15:54,613 --> 00:15:57,016 Guys, just think about what's happening here. 332 00:15:57,216 --> 00:16:00,019 Carly and I are using actual paleontologist tools 333 00:16:00,319 --> 00:16:02,688 to excavate a dinosaur fossil. 334 00:16:03,289 --> 00:16:05,958 We're the first humans in the history of mankind 335 00:16:06,091 --> 00:16:08,561 -to see this with our own eyes. -Let me get in there! 336 00:16:10,496 --> 00:16:12,431 CARLY: Once the fossil is free and clear, 337 00:16:12,565 --> 00:16:16,068 it's time to put on a protective cover around it called "The jacket", 338 00:16:16,368 --> 00:16:19,171 which involves toilet paper covered with burlap and plaster. 339 00:16:20,706 --> 00:16:24,310 I have never wrapped a dinosaur bone in toilet paper before. 340 00:16:24,777 --> 00:16:27,846 I have wrapped myself in toilet paper before for a mummy costume. 341 00:16:28,013 --> 00:16:29,048 (REBECCA LAUGHING) 342 00:16:29,214 --> 00:16:31,650 So we're TP-ing the bone. And then, what's next? 343 00:16:31,850 --> 00:16:34,753 We're gonna take the burlap that's been dipped in plaster, 344 00:16:35,054 --> 00:16:38,624 and we're gonna spread that over the bone, making a nice hard field jacket for it. 345 00:16:38,724 --> 00:16:40,559 (MUSIC PLAYING) 346 00:16:43,128 --> 00:16:44,263 CARLY: So, just... we can keep making 347 00:16:44,363 --> 00:16:45,397 -layers on top? -REBECCA: Yup! 348 00:16:46,031 --> 00:16:51,070 It's really like, ooey-gooey, kind of, a little bit thinner than slime. 349 00:16:51,403 --> 00:16:52,738 -Charlie, high five. -CHARLIE: No. 350 00:16:52,871 --> 00:16:54,440 -Okay. (LAUGHS) -(LAUGHING) 351 00:16:55,908 --> 00:17:00,279 So next, this will dry, and then you'll transport it to the lab? 352 00:17:00,479 --> 00:17:01,580 Exactly. 353 00:17:02,514 --> 00:17:03,882 Guys, this is so crazy, right? 354 00:17:04,149 --> 00:17:07,086 I mean, you can tell it takes so much time to take these fossils out of the ground. 355 00:17:07,219 --> 00:17:10,189 That's totally different than what we thought it was before. 356 00:17:10,589 --> 00:17:12,458 Gotta be careful to preserve these fossils, 357 00:17:12,691 --> 00:17:14,059 make sure they don't fall apart. 358 00:17:14,493 --> 00:17:16,161 Pretty excited to talk to ReBecca about this a bit more. 359 00:17:18,030 --> 00:17:19,031 REBECCA: Great job, guys. 360 00:17:19,164 --> 00:17:21,700 When it dries, go ahead and bring it down to the museum collections. 361 00:17:21,834 --> 00:17:22,854 -JULIA: Bye. -REBECCA: Thanks, guys. 362 00:17:22,913 --> 00:17:24,097 -CHARLIE: See you guys. -CARLY: Thank you. 363 00:17:24,670 --> 00:17:26,271 Okay. Gonna wash my hands. 364 00:17:29,541 --> 00:17:33,078 The fossils in all these rocks must be worth so much money. 365 00:17:33,646 --> 00:17:35,914 -Do you sell these fossils? -REBECCA: No, we don't sell them. 366 00:17:36,048 --> 00:17:38,017 They're more valuable to science. 367 00:17:38,317 --> 00:17:41,553 And so, we collect them and study them, and we learn a lot about the past, 368 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:43,472 but that also tells us a lot about our future. 369 00:17:45,891 --> 00:17:46,925 CARLY: Before we head out, 370 00:17:47,393 --> 00:17:50,896 ReBecca explains that fossils are unique time capsules 371 00:17:51,030 --> 00:17:53,732 that record the history of our whole planet. 372 00:17:53,899 --> 00:17:56,735 It makes you wonder what secrets our fossil back in HQ might hold. 373 00:17:57,636 --> 00:18:00,205 CHARLIE: And I'm starting to wonder if selling our fossil to raise money 374 00:18:00,339 --> 00:18:02,608 for the movie premiere is a good idea. 375 00:18:04,343 --> 00:18:07,880 ReBecca, this day has been incredible. You and your interns are amazing. 376 00:18:08,013 --> 00:18:12,251 We learned about dinosaurs, paleontology, the truth about Alabama Cones, 377 00:18:12,384 --> 00:18:15,421 I mean, it's totally different now that we met you. Thank you so much. 378 00:18:15,554 --> 00:18:17,589 Thank you guys so much for coming. I hope you'll come back again 379 00:18:17,723 --> 00:18:19,058 -some time soon. -Definitely. 380 00:18:19,191 --> 00:18:20,579 -(CELL PHONE VIBRATING, RINGING) -Ooh. Excuse me. 381 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:24,930 -Hello? -Hello, yes, this is the bajillionaire. 382 00:18:25,531 --> 00:18:27,533 I collect super fancy, old things. 383 00:18:27,866 --> 00:18:30,569 I saw your ad on the Craftbook, and I'd like to buy your fossil. 384 00:18:31,437 --> 00:18:32,905 I'll be in town in about... 385 00:18:33,439 --> 00:18:34,807 an hour. I'll see you there. 386 00:18:36,108 --> 00:18:38,911 -It's a buyer for the fossil. -All right, guys, we gotta go back to HQ. 387 00:18:39,044 --> 00:18:41,013 But we'll see you soon? Great. See you soon. 388 00:18:43,048 --> 00:18:45,184 Okay. He will be here in a minute. 389 00:18:45,317 --> 00:18:47,086 I can't believe you found a buyer already. 390 00:18:47,553 --> 00:18:48,987 But don't you wonder where it came from? 391 00:18:49,188 --> 00:18:51,657 -Yeah. -I wish we had more time to study it. 392 00:18:51,857 --> 00:18:55,761 It's like what ReBecca said. Fossils, they're clues to the past. 393 00:18:56,061 --> 00:18:57,563 This could probably tell us 394 00:18:57,730 --> 00:19:02,067 what our backyard was like hundreds of millions of years ago. 395 00:19:02,735 --> 00:19:06,004 Like, maybe, at one point, our backyard was under an ocean. 396 00:19:06,171 --> 00:19:08,941 And this fossil is from a giant Plesiosaur! 397 00:19:09,141 --> 00:19:10,342 (PLESIOSAUR ROARS) 398 00:19:10,542 --> 00:19:13,312 Or it was covered in thick sheets of ice and snow 399 00:19:13,545 --> 00:19:16,415 and it's from a prehistoric saber tooth cat. 400 00:19:16,682 --> 00:19:17,683 (SABER TOOTH CAT ROARS) 401 00:19:18,350 --> 00:19:19,718 This is crazy, Carly. 402 00:19:19,852 --> 00:19:23,956 It goes back to a time before humans even existed on this planet. 403 00:19:24,389 --> 00:19:25,524 -(GASPS) -Whoa. 404 00:19:26,825 --> 00:19:28,227 We should keep it. 405 00:19:28,794 --> 00:19:30,629 -What are you talking about? -We should keep it. 406 00:19:30,963 --> 00:19:33,732 -No, no, but the premiere... -Charlie, forget about the premiere. 407 00:19:34,133 --> 00:19:36,635 Alabama Cones isn't even a real paleontologist. 408 00:19:36,869 --> 00:19:37,870 -(KNOCKING) -CASEY: Hello? 409 00:19:41,807 --> 00:19:44,910 -Hi. -Hi. I'm a bajillionaire. 410 00:19:45,544 --> 00:19:47,146 -All right. -I came all this way. 411 00:19:47,279 --> 00:19:48,680 Let's see that there fossil. 412 00:19:48,964 --> 00:19:51,283 -Oh, it's right here. -Charlie, we should keep it. 413 00:19:53,519 --> 00:19:54,887 Think about ReBecca. 414 00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:57,589 Alabama Cones is just a character. 415 00:19:58,123 --> 00:19:59,625 A bajillion dollars. 416 00:19:59,858 --> 00:20:01,760 REBECCA: They're more valuable to science. 417 00:20:02,427 --> 00:20:03,929 CARLY: She'd want us to keep this fossil. 418 00:20:05,464 --> 00:20:08,300 Sir, I'm sorry you came all this way. 419 00:20:08,967 --> 00:20:12,037 Because our fossil is not for sale. 420 00:20:12,271 --> 00:20:14,206 -Yes! -CASEY: Wait a minute. 421 00:20:14,506 --> 00:20:15,541 That there is the fossil? 422 00:20:15,674 --> 00:20:16,675 -Yeah. -CARLY: Mm-hmm. 423 00:20:16,809 --> 00:20:20,913 I don't want it anyway. It's not a fossil, it's a chicken bone. 424 00:20:21,380 --> 00:20:23,415 -A chicken bone? -How? 425 00:20:23,816 --> 00:20:25,184 Patrick is gonna be my sous-chef. 426 00:20:25,450 --> 00:20:27,953 Because I don't mind taking out the compost. 427 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:29,955 (BEATBOXING) 428 00:20:32,758 --> 00:20:34,059 (SIGHS) Patrick! 429 00:20:34,459 --> 00:20:37,462 You two buckaroos have wasted plenty of my time. 430 00:20:37,629 --> 00:20:38,864 (CHARLIE SIGHS) 431 00:20:40,165 --> 00:20:41,266 I'm a bajillionaire. 432 00:20:41,834 --> 00:20:45,003 This stinks. I wanted this to be a fossil so bad! 433 00:20:45,137 --> 00:20:48,774 Me, too. But it's just a chicken bone from the compost in the backyard. 434 00:20:49,041 --> 00:20:50,642 I mean, it kinda makes sense, though, right? 435 00:20:51,076 --> 00:20:54,012 I mean, think of where we found all those fossils with ReBecca. 436 00:20:54,913 --> 00:20:57,516 Yeah, places that were under water a long time ago. 437 00:20:58,083 --> 00:20:59,885 I don't know if our backyard was one of those. 438 00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:02,354 -Wait a sec. -What? 439 00:21:02,554 --> 00:21:04,289 -CARLY: We have something already. -We have? 440 00:21:04,389 --> 00:21:06,859 Yeah! And, they're fossils. 441 00:21:07,125 --> 00:21:09,862 -What? -Charlie, the beads. 442 00:21:10,295 --> 00:21:13,232 Wait, our homemade relic necklaces? 443 00:21:13,365 --> 00:21:15,567 Those weird stone beads we found on the beach 444 00:21:15,701 --> 00:21:19,705 are fossils of ancient, pre-historic animals called crinoids. 445 00:21:19,938 --> 00:21:21,206 -What? -Check it out. 446 00:21:22,941 --> 00:21:27,613 Four-hundred million years ago, Illinois was entirely under water, 447 00:21:27,746 --> 00:21:30,716 and the ocean floor was covered in crinoids, 448 00:21:31,149 --> 00:21:33,385 ancient relatives of starfish. 449 00:21:33,619 --> 00:21:35,354 Eventually, they turned into fossils, 450 00:21:35,487 --> 00:21:37,689 and washed up on the shores of Lake Michigan. 451 00:21:41,927 --> 00:21:44,463 So, these are fossils. 452 00:21:44,630 --> 00:21:47,399 -Of ancient starfish. -CHARLIE: That's incredible! 453 00:21:47,532 --> 00:21:51,270 We learned way more by researching the truth about paleontology 454 00:21:51,403 --> 00:21:54,072 than we would have by going to that Alabama Cones premiere. 455 00:21:54,206 --> 00:21:56,041 You know, I wonder what it'd be like if they made a movie 456 00:21:56,174 --> 00:22:00,579 about actual paleontologists. You know, with like, cooing dinosaurs. 457 00:22:00,846 --> 00:22:03,949 -And tiny Velociraptors. -And crinoids like these. (GASPS) 458 00:22:04,549 --> 00:22:06,952 -You thinking what I'm thinking? -I'll grab the camera. 459 00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:09,688 All right, guys, it looks like we got a new project on our hands. 460 00:22:09,821 --> 00:22:11,189 But thanks so much for stopping by. 461 00:22:11,356 --> 00:22:14,159 Come by again when we discover more things that are weird... 462 00:22:14,293 --> 00:22:16,428 -But true. -We'll see you guys later. All right. 463 00:22:16,528 --> 00:22:18,330 Okay, I'm thinking, I'm gonna be the Velociraptor. 464 00:22:18,463 --> 00:22:19,731 -Yes. -You'll be the paleontologist. 465 00:22:19,865 --> 00:22:20,999 -Yes. -CARLY: So, what do you think 466 00:22:21,133 --> 00:22:22,901 -you should wear? -CHARLIE: Oh, I don't know. 467 00:22:23,068 --> 00:22:25,370 (MUSIC PLAYING) 468 00:22:26,805 --> 00:22:28,907 (INDISTINCT CLAMOR) 469 00:22:29,942 --> 00:22:33,078 All right, all right, we got a big star, Bama Cones, right here! 470 00:22:33,211 --> 00:22:35,881 -One question at a time! -MALE VOICE: Alabama, right here! 471 00:22:36,081 --> 00:22:37,649 FEMALE VOICE: What's your favorite dinosaur? 472 00:22:37,916 --> 00:22:42,354 -Uh, look, I don't know. The big one. -Beautiful. Beautiful, yeah. 473 00:22:42,921 --> 00:22:44,523 Do you have a favorite fossil? 474 00:22:46,658 --> 00:22:48,694 -No. -All right, no more questions. 475 00:22:48,827 --> 00:22:50,195 Where's the chicken a la Fronto? 476 00:22:50,298 --> 00:22:51,973 -We need a chicken a la Fronto! -Favorite fossil, what is that? 477 00:22:52,064 --> 00:22:53,376 -Let's go. We'll get your chicken. -CARLY: I'm starving. 478 00:22:53,468 --> 00:22:55,400 -I haven't eaten in like, two hours. -CHARLIE: Don't worry about it.