Hell Creek: The Most Important Dinosaur Fossil Site in the World | Dinosaur Documentary

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Today, Hell Creek is a dramatic enough landscape as it is without the prehistoric context - aerial photos of the formation will show a jagged landscape of huge rocks and cliffs jutting out into the sky, amidst sparse forests and fields underneath a wide open sky. It looks very different to the Hell Creek of sixty six million years earlier. There's a reason we're focusing on this location in prehistory specifically, though. The Hell Creek Formation is famous for containing the fossils of North America's very last dinosaurs, the ones that would have been alive to experience the cataclysmic mass extinction event that put an end to their entire kind. Some of the rocks are even young enough to topple over the Cretaceous-Paleocene boundary into the beginning of the Cenozoic era, the time when the world was dominated by the small mammals, reptiles and birds that survived the asteroid impact and the subsequent disasters.

0:00 Introduction
2:58 Welcome To Hell Creek
5:10 The Ornithischians
18:46 The Theropods
28:38 Other Creatures Of Hell Creek
36:09 Outro

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[dinosaurdiscovery]

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[sirgailplatt]

This is the best thing I've ever found to fall asleep to, it's like a peaceful radio show, but with T-Rex!

[unotechrih]

I'm an aquatics biologist that regularly works on Fort Peck, including the Hell Creek arm. I can't imagine how wild it must have been during the cretaceous. It's a wild place even today.

[GoodGuy-wqmd]

I always think about how early Native Americans must have turned a corner, and observed a giant skull, with huge, sharp teeth, and wonder if such a monster is lurking around the bend. I believe these fossil discoveries by early man, are where the "dragon" myths originated.

[gic]

This is the only channel I hit like before I hit play. There’s no thinking or hesitation to it, almost like that’s what you have to do to watch it lol
I love this channel. These videos are so flawless and perfect.
I’m a sub from your true crime channel ..I thought it was quite a jump when you were like “been thinkin bout Dino’s” but man you’ve NAILED it

Cable stations would be happy to air your episodes, swear

[josephthomasjr.]

Magnificent! Fascinating! And extremely well crafted! Thank you very much. And PLEASE keep giving us content like this!

[f_x]

Seeing this at 3am my time & honestly the voice makes it soothing to hear & learn at the same time, thank you! 👍

[jimmiewomble]

Decades ago, I used to work around west central Alabama. I often found heavy walnut sized chunks sitting on top of those latest Cretaceous chalk layers, but never buried in them. I would bet money they were remnants of the debris that rained down from that asteroid impact.

[qwertzuiopu]

What's about that hedgehog at 35:02 ? Why does it have mushrooms sticked to his spikes?

[Alberad]

Really loved to watch this - thank you very much!

[kenyongray]

It would have been amazing to see Hell Crreek in its prime in some protective bubble so you would not get eaten and observe all that was going on. It would have been spectacular.

[pukaseek]

This gentleman can start a business of sleep protocols as his voice almost put me to sleep in under 10 minutes

[rogerdudra]

Greetings from the BIG SKY. Been fishin at Hell Creek.

[frankanddanasnyder]

The commentator is putting me to slee..ee..eeeep. much enthusiasm !

[minder]

Jurassic world I-rex on the thumbnail.
Yeah. I'm grabbing a large pinch of salt for this.

[TyrannoWright]

That thumbnail though... Since when was Hell Creek home to fucking indominus rex?

[johnkeane]

superb work. Yes, it is incredible to think T Rex actually attacked triceratops on our very own planet.

[JustinSane]

Hello. I'm from Denmark, i have a huge heart for dinosaurs ... and history .. In denmark we dont have that much of those cool dinosaurs.. but i used alot of time looking at sattelites images, in denmark we have viking history :D so i helped finding areas where vikings maybe lived with the use of google earth and other space apps.. and i just had to see if it was posible to spot dinosaurs fossils in the ground too.. and im not kidding you.. i have a ton of evidens now that clearly shows a dinosaur outline in the ground of montana at hell's creek :)

[kakashicage]

I just wanna know why there’s a indominus Rex in the thumbnail

[sarahb.]

I started watching this last night before falling asleep...and I slept great! Its the first good sleep I had in about a week or two. Such incredible images!

But why is it called Hell's Creek???