11 AMAZING Fossil Discoveries

From the Dragon like creature found in China, to one of the best Fossil exhibits in the world, these are 11 AMAZING Fossil Discoveries!

Canadian Fish Fossils-- While digging a basement for a new home in Alberta Canada, Edgar Nernberg discovered five fish fossil specimens in nearly perfect condition were concealed in the sandstone. Researchers aid the fish fossil specimens were found in a block of sandstone in an approximate 60-million-year-old rock formation called the Paskapoo Formation underlying Calgary. A local paleontologist claimed that the ancient fossil fish have importance due to their being primitive representatives of a large group of bony fish of the modern era. While we didn’t get the exact species of these fossil fish, one key element to keep in mind is their age, estimated at 60 million years old. It’s ironic because Edgar Nernberg, the man who discovered them is actually on the board of directors for Big Valley’s Creation Science Museum … a creationist museum that believes the Earth is only 6,000 years old.

Dino Tail -- The five-yard long fossilized tail of a dinosaur was discovered by villagers in a Mexican desert in 2013. It was described as “unusually well preserved” and was the first ever dinosaur tail found in Mexico. The 72-million year old fossil tail belonged to a hadrosaur, known as duck-billed dinosaurs, due to the resemblance of their heads to that of modern ducks. Found in the Coahuila state, archaeologists found 50 vertebrae in the animal’s tail completely intact … and also found additional fossilized bones at the site, including one of the hadrosaur’s hips. Researchers believe the discovery could help better understand hydrosaurs, which were thought to range in size from 10 to 65 feet long, and lived during the later Cretaceous Period. Interesting that they only found the tail of this beast … makes you wonder what happened to the rest of it!

Think it could be a scene from Jurassic Park? Thousands of bird fossils from the dinosaur era were unearthed in northeast Burma in 2016. Close to 100 million years old, the fossils belong to ancestors of modern birds … despite the age, feathers of of the birds are perfectly preserved after millions of years in amber … and show no major deviation from the anatomical makeup of today’s birds. Overall, thousands of specimens of feathers were discovered, including tiny bird wings, measuring between two to three centimeters long. The huge haul of fossils was discovered in an area of Burma that has yielded thousands of specimens of scorpions, spiders, lizards, in addition to isolated feathers. It’s believed that this is the first time entire portions of birds have been discovered.

Dragon of Qijiang (k’jang) -- Construction workers in southern China discovered the fossils of a dinosaur the lived around 160 million years ago. The workers were digging in Qijiang City when they hit a row of large neck vertebrae that stretched out in the ground. Paleontologists reconstructing the skeleton claim that up to half of the animal’s 49-foot length is accounted for by the neck. Most sauropods, or long-necked dinosaurs had necks measuring only around one-third of their body length. While it’s hard to imagine the animal being able to even lift a neck that long, the animal had air pockets within the massive bones of its vertebrae … meaning that, despite it’s enormous size, the neck was relatively lightweight. Scientists think that fossils such as this may have given rise to the legend of serpent-like dragons that persist throughout China. The dinosaur was named Qijianglong (k’jang-long) … meaning, dragon of Qijiang.

In 2014, the North Sea yielded the skeleton of a wooly mammoth as a group of researchers trawled waters off the east coast of Rotterdam at depths of 100 feet. The area was a stretch of low-lying icy tundra some 40,000 years ago when the animal was alive … Researchers believe the animals used an ancient landmass known as Doggerland, a vast tundra that stretched between Europe and Britain. While scientists said it’s extremely rare to find skulls of mammoths and large bones on the seabed, it’s not uncommon to to find bones of extinct creatures by dredging. The mammoth’s skull was initially found in 2010 … and it’s thought the animal measured up to 11 feet tall. North Sea Fossils, the research company that found the mammoth, also found the bones of Irish elk, woolly rhinos, and the prehistoric skull of a European bison.

Let's Connect

[shanebriscoe]

The paleontologist should join with big construction projects that way they could scope out the land before the construction starts. Possibly save rare precious finds.

[MTreatVO]

What sucks about the number 1 is that when that happened, the people building the dam gave them a couple extra days before they would continue with construction and flood the site. There are so many more bones left down there that they were not able to get to.

[saddy]

Fantastic info.
Keep posting such informative clips

[zedorda]

9:12 That is Skyrim. Whats the deal using footage from a videogame?

[jameshenry]

The mystery skeleton is clearly an icthyosaur, a group of extinct marine reptiles. The icthyosaurs resembled modern dolphins, except their tails were vertical as found in fish. Dolphins have horizontal fins. The icthyosaurs persisted through the jurassic and cretaceous periods, going extinct with the dinosaurs.

[Snowleopard]

Number two is an Ichthyosaur, from the Jurassic ear and a fairly common find both in Yorkshire, where the submarium is, and here in Dorset.

[sleepingstarsXI]

I'm still to this day fascinated with dinosaurs and I'm literally 17 years old

[boongyify]

I don't claim to be an expert on the bible or science. I am just analytical and I am a fan and subscriber to you chanel. Keep up the good work man.

[davidvictor]

Q: What is the common ancestor of the rhinoceros and the elephant? A: Elefino

[sheenahopkins]

did any one notice the dragon bones from skyrim at 9:57? lol best game ever

[typograf]

#2: It looks like the forepart of an Ichtyosaurus. The bony rings in the eyes are rather typical for that group.

[CorrectsYou]

Of all the images you could have used to represent hadrosaurs, you had to use the least accurate one in existence.

[davidvictor]

Recently, the fossilized remains of a saber-tooth tiger were discovered in Sicily. It's category is listed as, "smilodon corleone".

[arielbjerk]

#2 in your list would be identified as some kind of ichthyosaur...handy bit of information for you, hopefully this helps.

[Patchwork_Dragon]

Number two is an Icthyosaurus.
(dinosaur nerd here :'D)

[CAWCarcharo]

3:44 it's paleontologists not archaeologists

[davidrubino]

The wall of fossils in England seems to be a mess of assorted marine life, icthyosaurs and plesiosaurs (fish-like reptiles and long necked marine reptiles) which were native to the area during the Jurassic period. Mary Anning, an amateur fossil collector from the early-to-mid-1800's, discovered both species as well as a few others.

[m.a.packer]

Everyone knows sharks evolved when they ate thunder rocks and turned into more powerful pokimans

[ngrinshift]

I subscribe to the school of thought which say life emerged from intertidal zones as opposed to outright full on ocean. I wonder if even the first creatures that later evolved into sharks had "walking" capabilities since they have body parts or remnants there of that lend themselves to that task. I say that in reference to the rearmost fins that appear to have had some weight bearing anatomy, needless in the ocean where they are virtually weightless. Shark skeletons being composed of cartalidge also leads one to believe the have spent more time evolving in an aquatic environment where the weight bearing nature of solid skeletons isn't needed where bony fish had a more recent terrestrial past. Not to say fish full on walked on land (even though it seems they may have given rise to lizards and such) but perhaps dragged themselves around the sand during low tide in said intertidal zones. Even sharks seem to have had a similar period in their evolution albeit much before bony fish themselves. Otherwise fish would have comparable skeletons to sharks if they followed similar evolutionary lines.

[jackib]

I see the bones of dragons I kill in Skyrim is that supposed to be an Easter egg.