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what is going on right there
are we sure this isn't crocodilian
that's not crocodilian no all right let
me try this piece right here
i'll go in from the top and then twist
up and it separates on right on that
line oh
that skin right there that's actually
scaly skin
no no no no look look look look at that
pattern right there have you ever seen
elongated scales like that before dave
scootalates and uh birds
just careful
it's changing again
we're seeing it for the first time in 66
million years
i think we got ourselves a dinosaur
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a dinosaur fossil in the same mass death
assemblage as the fish with the
spherules in their gills
this is the most incredible thing that
we could possibly imagine here the best
case scenario we're
excavating this mass death layer of fish
from the surge sent up by the impact and
we've got dinosaur remains
the one thing that we would always want
to find at this site and here we've got
it
this is unreal i ca i cannot process
this in my brain no i am absolutely
blown away by this
just my heart is literally pumping out
of my chest wondering what is behind
there just a couple centimeters back in
the outcrop what is waiting for us back
there
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this is amazing the team keeps digging
so this could be a rib cage it could be
laying against ribs that are curved
there's something here
that's hard
that's bone right next to the skin but
that that's an articular surface right
there so this is either a hip or a
shoulder element
after hours of painstaking work
and we can go from the thigh of the
animal there's the knee
and then we've got the
little calf muscles of the dinosaur
they're bulging out and you go down to
the ankle bones
and these are the toes of the feet
we've got nails at the tips of the toes
it's a beautifully preserved leg all
articulated covered with skin
the complete leg of a dinosaur in my
wildest dreams i never expected to find
a dinosaur leg in this deposit yeah i
mean and then it's got skin and tissue
it does look just like a drumstick
it looks like a thanksgiving turkey just
laid out in the ground