Why Scientists Can't Explore The Deep Cretaceous

Why We Can't Truly Explore The Deep Cretaceous Period The Cretaceous gave us more dinosaurs than any other part of the dinosaur age, and I still don’t think we’ll ever truly explore it. In this video I follow one T. rex that died in a Montana river 66 million years ago. I walk through everything that had to go right for its bones to end up in a museum, and everything that went wrong for almost every other animal alive back then. First we get into why nearly every dinosaur we’ve found was buried by a flood somewhere low and wet. That’s also why the small dinosaurs and pterosaurs barely show up, and why the fossil map ends up showing where paleontologists live more than where dinosaurs lived. Then I go looking for the animals we only know from scraps. There are raptors we only have teeth from, a sparrow-sized raptor that left nothing but footprints, and a coyote-sized mammal from a Brazilian desert. I also cover the megaraptorans that probably walked across Antarctica, the dwarf titanosaurs of Hațeg Island, a sunken island the size of Spain, and a whole plateau where Nevada is now that nobody can name a single animal from. We finish down at ground level, with a pollen grain that has no plant and grass that turned up in titanosaur dung. Which of the missing animals would you most want to see dug up? Let me know in the comments. For Sponsors and Biz: Drew@fjagency.net #Dinosaurs #Cretaceous #Paleontology cretaceous period, cretaceous, dinosaurs, dinosaur documentary, prehistoric animals, paleontology, fossil record, how fossils form, taphonomy, missing dinosaurs, undiscovered dinosaurs, t rex, tyrannosaurus rex, hell creek formation, dinosaur park formation, raptors, pterosaurs, nevadaplano, hateg island, magyarosaurus, hatzegopteryx, island dwarfism, megaraptor, antarctica dinosaurs, kerguelen plateau, ghost lineage, coelacanth, cretaceous mammals, spinosnack