10 Most AMAZING Fossil Discoveries Ever Made

hi everyone its Katrina from mummified armor-plated plant-eaters to well preserved t-rex investigated by the FBI here are 10 of the most amazing fossil discoveries ever number 10 notice or fossil one of the most amazing fossil finds in history was the notice or this armor-plated plant-eater lived about 110 million years ago and is one of the best preserved dinosaur heads ever most fossils are fragments of bone and teeth but this has the actual skin and armor of the animal from the head to around the hip found by mine workers in Canada in 2011 that were drilling for crude oil they saw big brown rocks that looked like ribs but they had no idea that it was dinosaur six years later the dinosaur has been cleaned and protected and looks almost like it would have looked way back when it is located at the Royal Tyrrell Museum and it is their pride and joy heaven if you've seen it in real life let me know in the comments below number nine mosquito in amber what if we found well preserved ancient mosquito preserved in amber just like in Jurassic Park could we bring dinosaurs back this concept is fascinating one as in the movie Dino blood was extracted from the mosquito to create dinosaurs in the present but such thing wouldn't be possible in real life right right most likely not however mosquito fossil with blood in it was found in 2013 in the state of Montana giving hope to movie watchers everywhere the crazy thing is this shale rock fossil had actually been discovered in the 1980s student slash amateur fossil collector kept it in his house and forgot about it if an eagle-eyed biochemist hadn't been on the case we may never have found this extraordinary 46 million year old specimen experts got even more excited when they realized it still had blood in its system one thing they do know is that it is in dinosaur blood sorry Jurassic Park fans DNA only lasts around half century before degrading as for what animal the blood was sucked out from it's mystery still blood from millions of years ago is pretty cool regardless number eight Archaeopteryx Archaeopteryx is the oldest known bird from the late Jurassic period this creature is extremely important as it is the link between dinosaurs and birds the discovery of this fossil in Germany in 1860 is sometimes referred to as the original bird or the first bird however that is not exactly the case but it was major stepping stone in paleontology as it had feathers wings and bones that were hollow like bird but teeth legs and bony tail just like small dinosaur the name translates as ancient wing further digging the following year revealed headless kiloton since then about eleven to twelve Archaeopteryx fossils have been found the stepping stone critter dates back to 150 million years ago to the Late Jurassic period it weighed up to 2.2 pounds and was the size of raven with broad rounded wings and long tail which grew up to 50 centimeters so could it fly the flying Dino was apparently flapper as it flew short distances rather than soaring majestically like pterodactyl it was carnivore and also had reptilian teeth so it could grab on to its prey ouch imagine bird flying around with sharp teeth the most complete skeleton is the Berlin specimen that was discovered in 1874 75 in Germany by farmer this one actually had an intact head and eventually made its way to the Humboldt Museum where it remains today other recent discoveries in China of similar fossilized creatures especially that shouting gia zenki continued to fill in the puzzle of bird-like dinosaurs now known as Dana Nye kesariya say that three times fast number seven Diplodocus what makes the Diplodocus so amazing is that we know lot about it in the mysterious world of fossils that's big deal it was first discovered in 1877 and the name Diplodocus means double beam that's in reference to the interesting shape of the bones in his tail since then Kassem whole skeletons were donated to the public by steel Baron Andrew Carnegie it lived in the Late Jurassic period around 150 million years ago and you couldn't fail to miss it back then with its long neck and tail it measured 53 metres in total because its front legs are shorter it's believed the Diplodocus low food specifically plants like shrubs this large dinosaur has reputation for being slow and chubby but only one of those seems to be right in comparison to other sauropods they're pretty slender at around 40,000 pounds however the brain was somewhat small you didn't want to mess with it though as experts think that long powerful tail could have been used as weapon you can get some Diplodocus vertebra for six thousand four hundred and fifty dollars what do you think worth it number six dueling dinosaurs in 2006 cowboy and rancher Clayton Phipps and his friend mark Eamonn known as the Dino cowboy went out looking for dinosaur bones in Montana Montana is rich in dinosaur fossils and they can be worth lot whenever the men weren't doing ranch work they were out looking for fossils and started going to trade shows and selling to museums and private collectors so then in 2006 they made the discovery of lifetime in hillside they found not one but two dinosaurs locked into what looked like fight to the death there was 22-foot long theropod perhaps t-rex and 28 foot long ceratopsian from 66 million years ago they are so well preserved that they are almost mummies instead of fossils and there could be soft tissue inside question now is who owns the fossil it's hard to say there are the ranchers who found it the landowners who signed off case of Marie vbj minerals LLC which deals with who owns what's on top of the land versus what's beneath it all kinds of confusion and lot of money to be made for what is perhaps the greatest fossil ever discovered not many have seen it and apparently they still haven't been fully excavated from the rock and cleaned out or put on display but if that informations little sketchy the latest news could find is that Clayton Phipps couldn't really tell anyone where it is just that they are at an American Museum but other museums such as the Smithsonian argue that unless they share the exact location and make it available to the public for viewing and studying the find is basically useless and they will not pay the fifteen million dollars that they are asking for apparently the dueling dinosaurs themselves went to auction in 2013 at bought hams in New York but no bid met the reserve price of six million dollars using know but these kinds of fines bring lot of excitement and drama number-5 Hadrosaurus this monster fossil is impressive but somewhat controversial you may not associate somewhere like New Jersey with Dinosaurs but the strange truth is the state has its own dyno the Hadrosaurus which reportedly means bulky lizard not bad way to refer to one of these guys it's bones were discovered by accident when pit was being dug in New Jersey in 1838 however for some reason they weren't excavated for another 20 years the creature which was 10 meters long and 8,000 pounds has been traced back to the late cretaceous period 84 to 70 million years ago what's complicated about the find is that the skeleton doesn't have head experts have pieced together what the Hadrosaurus may have been like due to its similarities with the grippe asaurus the grape asaurus moved in herds and was an herbivore so the Hadrosaurus is thought to have been that way also there isn't head but teeth have been found which appear to back this up here some theorize that this Dino isn't separate animal because all the pieces of the puzzle haven't been found nvm Hadrosaurus we believe in you number 4 The Hobbit not all fossils are of dinosaurs as this extraordinary collection of ancient human fossils demonstrates back in the early 90s the remains of 9 individuals were found and excavated in cave on the island of Flores Indonesia named Homo floresiensis they were like humans only different in one important aspect size the ancient people were all approximately 1 metre or 3 feet in height this led experts to dub them hobbits recreations have been made of what they might have looked like for example one was female 30 years old however when it comes to when the so-called hobbits date back to no one exactly knows their fossils were found in complicated mix of cave layers that have grown over time so working it all out is stuff estimates of the hobbits ages have been revised over and over the current thinking is that they are between 60 to 100 thousand years old are they our ancestors or were they separate group made extinct by the development of modern humans there appears to have been general extinction in the area 50 thousand years ago that affected various species but what caused things to vanish off the map so dramatically quite the mystery number three Megalosaurus what was the first dinosaur fossil ever discovered that was found in England in 1824 with the Great Blizzard or Megalosaurus this was before the idea of dinosaur was even invented eighteen years later so as far as scientists were concerned this was something new and kind of freaky at first they drew some conclusions from the fossil that warrant too accurate for starters they believed it walked on four legs the find caused such sensation that Charles Dickens referred to it in one of his novels describing it waddling up hill however it was established afterwards it walked on two legs the Megalosaurus was six metres long and weighed nine hundred and seven kilograms apparently it was only quarter of the size of t-rex we know some stuff like that but overall the Megalosaurus is still quite mysterious aside from it being the first dinosaur identified by science the Megalosaurus dates back to the mid Jurassic era 165 million years ago generally we don't find lot of fossils from that time if you want to come face-to-face with this legendary creature then visit Crystal Palace Park in London where four legged full-size sculpture is on display alongside other Dino recreations it isn't accurate but it sure is impressive number two Lucy an amazing and game-changing fossil discovery was made in 1974 when Lucy was discovered in the afar region of Ethiopia her real name is Australopithecus afarensis but she was named Lucy after the Beatles song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds which the scientists were playing on their tape deck at the time she was in pieces which totaled up to 40% of whole skeleton brilliant find for archeologists Lucy is thought to have been 12 years old but why is she so significant history had many gaps and she provided major insight into the link between Apes and humans at an estimated 3 million years old she became the oldest known example of an ancient human or hominid at the time and do mean hominin not hominid hominins are part of the family or larger group of primates called hominids and are species of early human particular interest was paid to her human-like teeth and bipedal nature or walking on two legs with other examples such as the famous town child discovery of 1924 it showed further evidence of how man and woman kind may have evolved through learning to walk the way we do today also the scientist who spotted Lucy is called Donald Johanson coincidentally Scarlett Johansson played character inspired by Lucy in the movie of the same name number one Tyrannosaurus su Tyrannosaurus su is the largest and best-preserved t-rex fossil ever found her real name is specimen & 2 0 8 1 but su is catchy she is also named after sue Hendrickson the woman who found her the 80% complete Tyrannosaurus Rex is one of the best discoveries ever and is now located at Chicago's Field Museum but the story of the discovery is pretty complicated found in the Black Hills of South Dakota in 1990 its ownership was highly contentious paleontologist Peter Larson owner of the Black Hills Institute of geological research along with sue Hendrickson and others were out looking for fossils they had paid the landowner Maurice Williams five thousand dollars to dig on his property after spending weeks searching sue Hendrickson came upon some broken bones and vertebrae the first pieces of sue the t-rex the team spent the next few weeks carefully unearthing the skeleton encase the bones in plaster and then transferred them to the Black Hills Institute where they prepared them for display injuries found on some of the bones indicated that the t-rex had been attacked and died from them but before Larson and his team could celebrate their discovery the excitement turned to outrage when federal agents arrived at the Institute and seized sue as well as all the records related to the t-rex and other documents from the Black Hills Institute the FBI agents indicated the team had stolen the t-rex from federal land and Maurice Williams remember him the land owner he claimed that he had given them the rights to look but that the actual dinosaur was his he belonged to the Sioux Nation part of the Indian trust land which made it more complicated for 18 months sue remained locked up as the federal government gathered evidence against Larson and his team members accusing them of stealing to make an already sticky situation even worse the Institute had been under investigation for years for illegally taking fossils off public and selling them internationally to private collectors in the end 153 charges were laid against Peter Larson and five others on his team he spent 18 months in prison judge awarded ownership of the dinosaur to Williams who auctioned off the skeleton through Sotheby's it sold for 7.6 million dollars Larson still runs the Black Hills Institute of geological research in South Dakota he and his team also found an additional ten partial Tyrannosaurus Rex skeletons besides all of this sue the dinosaur has given us an enormous amount of information Smithsonian magazine says that if you look for her official name the and h1 you will find tons of info regarding aging biomechanics and much much more thanks for watching which one did you like the most do you collect fossils let me know in the comments below and remember to subscribe if you haven't already see you next time bye