Thursday, March 17, 2016

Documentarian- Dinosaurs in the Outback

Here is the link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y75OB2n9Zz4

In this video, it talks about some of the dinosaurs that lived in the outback. For the main part of this video, it talks about how this guy named David Elliot, a grazier in the outback of Australia. He was herding sheep and found a bone that he thought, at first, was a strange looking rock. He contacted the Queensland museum a year after they found it, not digging it up, though, and they came to Elliot and collected the bone. They had only found the femur that he had seen on the surface. He knew about how the soil on the top had really just been blown around and that may have covered up the rest of the dinosaur's fossils. The team of Paleontologists came back out and they started excavating the dirt around where the femur was. They soon found other parts of the "sauropod that died there"'s legs and found some other lower body pieces. The person who has been narrating in this documentary then went back to the lab with the scientists. The scientists showed her how to and what they use to clean the dinosaur bones and remove them from their protective rock shells. A theropod's bones were also found near the area later on by David's family. Scientists assumed that the way this happened is that the sauropods herd was traveling through the area that was there millions of years ago. It had probably gotten stuck in the mud while traveling. The theropod there had probably been trying to eat the sauropod because it had noticed it was stuck. The theropod tried to attack the sauropod and the sauropod swung it's tail at the creature and killed it. The theropod died on its side and the sauropod died standing in the mud. Bigger dinosaurs had probably come by and took some of the sauropod's body. That is the reasoning for why the dinosaurs that were found in the area are there and their positions. Also, it is the reasoning for why some of the sauropods bones are missing.

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