Inside the Dinosaur Library

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We're back in Bozeman, Montana this week talking to Amy Atwater, Collections Manager at the Museum of the Rockies. MOR has among the largest collections of North American dinosaurs in the United States. We talk to Amy about her job and the collection she manages.
Thanks as always to Nobumichi Tamura for allowing us to use his wonderful paleoart : spinops.blogspot.com/
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@tropezando 6 жыл бұрын

Kallie always looks so happy to be wherever she is. She's a great interviewer because her positive energy rubs off on her guests. It's really inspiring to see people excited and passionate about their work.

@johannageisel5390 6 жыл бұрын

Did you notice her dinosaur shirt? :D

@gyozakeynsianism 5 жыл бұрын

And the Jurassic Park pin? Lol ... Nerds at work, very entertaining.

@Mr.Isquierdo 6 жыл бұрын

I feel like a child again watching pbs. Thank you for adapting to the times and persuing to keep people informed amd curious :)

@dannyo4789 6 жыл бұрын

Eco Bear yes, PBS is "Cool" again!

@pinkoctopus801 5 жыл бұрын

i'm glad i'm not the only one!

@Dongston 6 жыл бұрын

It's hilarious watching these two nerd out over their jobs. I'll have to stop by MoR on my way back from Glacier this summer. Bozeman, beer and bones.

@firethylacine1976 6 жыл бұрын

dloganwilliams I feel like they were trying really hard to stay professional and on topic. It was probably hard for them to simplify things for the unwashed masses, but it’s appreciated

@sirmeowthelibrarycat 6 жыл бұрын

dloganwilliams 😖 It is hilarious how vapid so many KZfaq commentators are . . . Biscuits, bangers and beer . . . !

@chrisspalding1463 4 жыл бұрын

@@firethylacine1976 I have the same problem and check myself constantly. I also have to put a check on digressing and getting off topic, but mentally chasing rabbits is a great deal of fun.

@matthewkearney9044 6 жыл бұрын

PBS eons is quickly becoming my favorite KZfaq channel

@mafferg5956 6 жыл бұрын

I love watching these professional educational videos that seem to be more and more rare on KZfaq

@MrStensnask 6 жыл бұрын

Actually, I think that there are more of these types of videos than ever.

@firethylacine1976 6 жыл бұрын

MrStensnask They don’t get as much attention as more mainstream channels, but there are quite a few really good channels out there

@xponen 6 жыл бұрын

@Maffer G ,there are more quality videos that interest you but KZfaq couldn't deliver them all to the right people. Video discoveries in KZfaq is mostly thru Recommended page set up by KZfaq.

@somecadejos6543 6 жыл бұрын

I swear...You guys are teaching me so much and I’m incredibly thankful for that! Thank you all so much and keep up the amazing content!

@justcallmeSheriff 6 жыл бұрын

I would like to see Eons go out to an active fossil dig site and show how amazing the process of discovery is. Also, I would really like an episode showing the progression of dinosaur species across time on different continents.

@garethtudor836 6 жыл бұрын

After spending some time at the Melbourne Museum, talking with some scientists and volunteers, I'm really happy to learn that the infectious enthusiasm they showed for their fields is pretty much commonplace across the board. That afternoon was massive fun, and I learned some really cool things about some really cool critters... especially that drop bears were actually a thing a few thousand years ago.

@UltraViolet666 6 жыл бұрын

Actually love how casual and informative this conversation is

@Avocadomolotov 6 жыл бұрын

couple of things: Kallie's shirt is amazing! I need to visit that museum. i totes want eon to visit an excavation field! Pretty please?

@thelonelydirector 6 жыл бұрын

Erik Lervold omg we tried like 200 times this year but I got sick, Blake got sick, it rained and the site wasn’t safe because of flash floods, and then we had a fire season so bad that area was closed off. We’re gonna try again this year though!!!

@Avocadomolotov 6 жыл бұрын

thelonelydirector I can't wait! That would be amazing! In the meantime, you know what would be amazing? Talking about the tools used in an excavation. Actually, that'd be weird. You guys would be in a lab going "so, this is a shovel mixed with a brush thingy. I would love to show you how it is used. Just imagine it going shovel shovel shovel brush brush brush." Oh, and since it's kallie, the shovel brushy thing is gonna be tiny and she's gonna say it's so cute!

@NorthernChev 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you Museum of the Rockies for letting Eons and PBS do this piece. It was wonderful!

@sirmeowthelibrarycat 6 жыл бұрын

😀 How delightful to see such enthusiasm and intelligent understanding of the subject. Who could not but be awed by their knowledge and capacity to convey their findings to the wider world? Thank you both!

@NorthernChev 6 жыл бұрын

Has anybody ever thought about how we would completely lose stuff like this (forever as a species) in the event of a nuclear war? I don't know why I thought of that, it just dawned on me. And I'm sure every little town all around the world has some "thing" that is special to our history (as a species) that we would permanently lose should anyone ever use nukes on someone. I don't know why I just thought of that. I guess because it would be sad to see something like this be lost forever.

@ironsnowflake1076 6 жыл бұрын

NorthernChev So sad and surreal,, yet a real possibility. Puts me in mind of the library of Alexandria, such an amazing repository of knowledge gone forever, taking all its secrets with it....

@Magmafrost13 6 жыл бұрын

This actually happened to the spinosaurus holotype in WWII. I mean it wasn't a nuclear bomb that did it, but still. We didn't have any fossils of spino from WWII up until relatively recently.

@firethylacine1976 6 жыл бұрын

Magmafrost13 I believe there were also other unique specimens taken out during WWII bombings. I read about one not too long ago, but I can’t remember it’s name. One of many horrible side effects of war

@rayzorrayzor9000 6 жыл бұрын

I’d worry more about the fate of all the humans who would be “lost forever” And to clarify, I actually Do Know why I said that. There will still be fossils in the ground, probably not so much the same could be said for any humans who were above ground !!!!

@dentoncrimescene 6 жыл бұрын

One way or another, it will all be lost eventually. One way or another.

@rotodexthepaleontologist2267 6 жыл бұрын

My dream job. I’m planning on majoring in geology or biology and minoring in paleontology when I start university soon.

@ironsnowflake1076 6 жыл бұрын

Rotodex Good luck to you......and I'm SUPER JEALOUS ;)

@unclecaravan 6 жыл бұрын

I found Geology to be a really enjoyable and fun degree. I highly recommend it. Especially if you like the outdoors and beer.

@Matthew-cd8iv 5 жыл бұрын

@@unclecaravan Tell me more about this having fun and beer...please

@somethinunameit637 4 жыл бұрын

How has it been going in college?

@benavidezvscharlo1013 3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a reality 👍🏿

@khalyeleytr 6 жыл бұрын

I love videos like this one that shows the in-depth work than usually is invisible to the public. Also, that fossil of a dino in the egg, awesome.

@SamuelRussell 6 жыл бұрын

Best Eons episode. I do history and love my records managers, librarians, archivists and gallery curators. I'm so glad that your area respects fossil collections curators and managers just like I respect my information specialists.

@brandedfate 5 жыл бұрын

Great episode. I'd live to see more of Amy is on the ship in the future. She has an amazing energy in her presentation.

@ddancer8687 5 жыл бұрын

As a librarian with a lifelong passion for dinosaurs, everything about this delights me!

@requiembeeblebroxx 6 жыл бұрын

I really enjoy Amy Atwater and the way she talks about what she does. She's so articulate and funny and delightful and now I really want to visit this museum.

@acklan3 6 жыл бұрын

I would watch a dozen episodes like this. So much locked away waiting their turn to be displayed. Great episode.

@binky2819 6 жыл бұрын

Can you please do a video on the Eurypterids!? I don't think you've even mentioned them so far!

@wadespencer3623 6 жыл бұрын

To tide you over, Trey the Explainer (youtube paleontology/pseudoscience debunker) has a great video on them.

@USSAnimeNCC- 6 жыл бұрын

Trey the explainer and Isaac Author are underrated they deserve more sub

@josephd.5524 6 жыл бұрын

Royal Tyrrell Museam in the Alberta Badlands would be choice. Maybe get an up-close look at the nodosaur!

@jackmilligan1009 6 жыл бұрын

Borealopelta is a truly magnificent fossil. It literally looks like it was turned to stone by Medusa!

@TheWhightKnight 5 жыл бұрын

It's really cool! I've seen it twice now.

@Modern_Texan 6 жыл бұрын

Please continue interacting with these professionals and letting us get a glimpse into their world. It is wonderful to know these incredible individuals who let us suffice are craving of paleontology.

@species138 4 жыл бұрын

I love how they just nerd out together.

@toolman4745 5 жыл бұрын

This is such a great episode. I love seeing Kallie (Spelling?) geeking out the whole time. Totally relatable as I would probably be doing the same thing. Also super cool content to see what happens with fossils in the long term as they can't all be put on display. Thanks Eons and keep being awesome.

@kentan5170 6 жыл бұрын

at 2:49-2:50,i thought she raised her middle finger.hahahaha😂😂😂😂😂😂

@JCinerea 5 жыл бұрын

I think a lot of people don't realize just how much of a shoestring budget many museums operate on. These two were exactly right when they said that you can't just often go out and "dig up another T-Rex". Yup! You've got to get access to the land, you've got to to get the time and money to go out and dig. You've got to actually find something. Then you've got to be sure it's legal to keep it. People that patronize museums do a great service by adding money to the museum's coffers. Volunteering at museums is also an outstanding opportunity to contribute to our collection of knowledge.

@swagatamsamanta5071 6 жыл бұрын

please make a video about significances of the teeth in paleontology or about evolution of teeth...

@animistchannel2983 6 жыл бұрын

Since "eons" involves more than animals, I think it would be cool to do a video on the dynamic earth itself -- maybe elevation changes that put primordial sea-salt deposits in Utah and the Himalayas, for example. I have cooked with some 300+ myo salt, and both the taste and the idea of it were somehow sweeter. In this, we are connected to raw elements that are not only ancient, but perhaps eternal :)

@toddmitchellchristensen1848 6 жыл бұрын

Thought I was going to not enjoy this but I LOVED IT!!! Can you do a video about North American primates? I want to know more about those little guys!

@fuckoffannoyingutube 6 жыл бұрын

thanks, Eons. I really love that you take the time to shed some light on these incredible people and their work.

@pixelapocrypha 6 жыл бұрын

The idea of touching something so old, something that literally traveled through millennia, something that the last time they saw the sun was when dinosaurs walked the earth... How awe inspiring. I can only imagine the kind of care that goes into preparing each of those fossils.

@brianmessemer2973 6 жыл бұрын

LOL 6:55 you guys are having such a good time talking about that Borophaginae skull! The enthusiasm is infectious! I bet lots of kids watching these videos will be inspired in paleontological sciences because of great content like this! Great work.

@EnZoDxGaming 6 жыл бұрын

please do more aquatic stuff i just love the ocean and all its history

@ZanKraken 6 жыл бұрын

Shes so excited to just be there, its so adorable!

@TeaRex12 6 жыл бұрын

this was always my dream job as a kid, I'm a field geologist now but thanks for giving insight into how fossil collections are curated! I LOVE this channel :)

@marie-michelefournier3714 6 жыл бұрын

I thought Amy Atwater had a particularly pleasant voice and would be happy to watch/listen to more !

@marafields5002 6 жыл бұрын

i love her voice

@CurlyFreys 6 жыл бұрын

This is such a great video. I love hearing and seeing people talk about something they love so much.

@stevenbaumann8692 6 жыл бұрын

I would love to take a road trip there! Best storage place ever! Well. Next to the rock core library in Marquette Michigan.

@HalfBit360 6 жыл бұрын

Steven Baumann Hmm? Michigan you say? I know where I’m going...

@stevenbaumann8692 6 жыл бұрын

i excellent. Well. The UP. Not that lower part below the bridge.

@ayskaaetheri3991 6 жыл бұрын

omg I'M in Marquette Michigan and I had no idea we had a rock library

@stevenbaumann8692 6 жыл бұрын

Alex Bowen yes. You do! It’s south of the city a bit. It’s in the process of being moved to a different facility.

@ayskaaetheri3991 6 жыл бұрын

I can't find any locations for it on google, but I'll keep an eye out. I'm a freshman earth science major at NMU so I gotta find this stuff

@massdysfunkton 5 жыл бұрын

Cannot express how much i love seeing nerds nerd out together its the happiest thing ever

@jeremywiles9981 6 жыл бұрын

I’d love to see an episode on the lost continent of Appalachia. As a kid growing up in West Virginia, I always wondered what kind of dinosaurs roamed around my neighborhood, but those rocks were eroded away millions of years ago.

@seandewar47 6 жыл бұрын

Can you do a video on the history of Therizinosaurus?

@Pacosaur 6 жыл бұрын

Sean Dewar Love those 6-7 feet claws of therizinosaurus

@seandewar47 6 жыл бұрын

Michael Jordan yes but there is slot more to it than that

@seandewar47 6 жыл бұрын

yeah but they got the skulls of close relatives and they infer its diet based on its relatives

@ksoundkaiju9256 6 жыл бұрын

Michael Jordan. Or it was an omnivore and tore open carcasses and picked at the soft innards

@seandewar47 6 жыл бұрын

it most likely also used it to bring branches down closer to its mouth

@cornlips7247 6 жыл бұрын

I love these type of videos. Its great to learn about the intricacies of museum work I otherwise would have never known about. Thank you for all your hard work and please never stop.

@valentinfejes 6 жыл бұрын

Visit the museum at the La Brea Tar Pits next time! ;)

@NimrodTargaryen 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much! You ladies rock!

@jahblo666 6 жыл бұрын

That was awesome! please do more of those.. just loved to see the passion that you both shared.

@BladesDark 6 жыл бұрын

I wanna visit this, seems so fresh.

@alejandrorubio4424 5 жыл бұрын

Really enjoy when you do these departures from your normal excellent videos and give us a little insight into researchers' and your own work. Thank you!

@Dickie72002 6 жыл бұрын

Seeing Kallie get really pumped about the topic of the video. Makes some want to be pumped and learn about it myself.

@micahspruth-janssen3138 6 жыл бұрын

Also you should go to Ash Falls Fossil Beds and do an episode about how catastrophic events such as volcanoes give us the most complete snapshots of specific ecosystems and periods of time!

@yeahminecraft1627 6 жыл бұрын

I spent a summer volunteering in the fossil prep lab in my local geology museum (university of wisconsin, madison) so this video was especially cool after having direct experience with this kind of stuff

@ArturoSilis 6 жыл бұрын

I concur that a visit to the Royal Tyrrell Museum is a must. It’s an amazing place, I particularly enjoy the outside tours as is an in-situ museum.

@57hound 6 жыл бұрын

Fascinating interview! Thank you for doing this!

@maggiee639 6 жыл бұрын

Oh my god I would love to be one of the people who prepare fossils. I LIVE for that kind of meticulous work and gluing things together. What a cool museum...

@offtraileddino5989 6 жыл бұрын

Wow, I've never knew Amy has Jennifer Lawrence's voice! All I knew was her awesome work in palaeontology, there is always a specialty about someone's voice when you've only knew them by their work attributes.

@offtraileddino5989 6 жыл бұрын

Anyway, thanks for the fantastic and informative interview.

@ShiverzInJapan 5 жыл бұрын

This was so awesome to see!! Seriously my dream job. Great video and thanks for taking us backstage :)

@bergfish7328 6 жыл бұрын

Fascinating, very interesting and lovely people -Perfect Video. Thank You!

@Ceruleanturkeyz 6 жыл бұрын

I really like these museum tours

@c_and_l 6 жыл бұрын

Y'all should totally come to Ohio! I volunteer at a collections center and we have a TON of invert stuff - it'd be cool to do something more invert focused than vert in terms of museum collections.

@jamestang1227 6 жыл бұрын

Speaking of Triceratops, a video on the Torosaurus Triceratops situation would be nice.

@KhanMann66 6 жыл бұрын

James Tang You think it be settled by now, but nooope.

@enkiimuto1041 6 жыл бұрын

You can see she is having the time of her life going there XD

@micahspruth-janssen3138 6 жыл бұрын

I love the museum of the Rockies!!!!

@davidbuschhorn6539 6 жыл бұрын

I hope I'm spelling your name right, but THANK YOU Callie for your enthusiasm. About science, nature, the world around us and the world that _was._

@OgienChomik 6 жыл бұрын

Id like to see some episodes on ancient bugs please!

@superpachycatsforepresiden9799 6 жыл бұрын

Love your Channel!

@varcit9341 6 жыл бұрын

Your voice sounds so beautiful kinda take me back to my childhood when my mom and I would watch tv

@BrysonRitchie 6 жыл бұрын

I love these museum visit videos! Eons should visit the Royal Tyrrell Museum/Drumheller someday!

@RollinLeonard 5 жыл бұрын

fantastic episode

@isaacknott8583 5 жыл бұрын

I remember going to boseman Montana and seeing the museum(it was one of the best experiences I have ever had even though my body was aching from fire ant stings)

@morskojvolk 6 жыл бұрын

Kallie knocks it out of the park, again. This has to be one of the coolest jobs in academia.

@jindozio8451 4 жыл бұрын

I went on like, two field trips to the Museum of the Rockies it was hella lit, also went there with my dad once,, would go again 10/10

@CaptainBlaine 6 жыл бұрын

I freaking love PBS Eons!

@gnollman 3 жыл бұрын

Been to that museum, it's an amazing place. Would go back to it in a minute. Bozeman was a neat visit.

@chickenpants 6 жыл бұрын

Please, go to the Hayden Planetarium? Having Neil DGT on the channel would be amazing. This is a great channel. I learn so much from every video. Thanks.

@kattiestoneman1059 6 жыл бұрын

It really inspires me to see female scientists getting recognition :)

@charliespinoza1966 6 жыл бұрын

I love Eons So much.

@sparker4614 6 жыл бұрын

Gotta love Kallie!! I also love eons. Thx for all the videos.

@marcusvachon845 6 жыл бұрын

This was an interesting presentation. Thank you!

@james4thedoctor482 5 жыл бұрын

Also support your local museums!

@warthog02 6 жыл бұрын

Ooh, I love that museum

@zailynnedurant2484 4 жыл бұрын

I love your videos! I definitely learn so much from them! I only found this channel last week, and have already binge watched most of your videos! Also I love Kallie's shirt in this video! Anyone know where I can get one?

@LD-qj2te 6 жыл бұрын

What a cool place ! Love to go there

@ovicephalus5938 6 жыл бұрын

I could spend a week in there without getting bored... I would love to get a chance to visit this place at some point.

@tetski8 5 жыл бұрын

Visit us here in Drumheller, Alberta, Canada!! I love love your channel! I love how you all put together all different paleontology studies from different parts of the world and put them here in a language that I can understand.

@popeyethepirate5473 5 жыл бұрын

You could go to Bismarck ND and interview the team at the heritage center. They have a famous dinosaur named Dakota that has fossilized skin.

@marsi.s 6 жыл бұрын

Hey! I've been learning about evolution in my biology class, and now I'm curious about the evolution of horses. My teacher said that horse fossils are fairly having a complete evolutionary record, and that's kinda interesting! I wish u can make a brief summary of this topic, and is there any other animals that also have a complete evolutionary record?

@KhanMann66 6 жыл бұрын

Marzhew Mars Whales comes to mind.

@KossolaxtheForesworn 6 жыл бұрын

far as I know, humans might actually have the most perfect evolutionary record. there is really many stages between our early tree dwelling ancestors and now.

@BoxStudioExecutive 6 жыл бұрын

+MrAnimepredator But if your elitist east coast evolution is real, why haven't we found the missing link between modern humans and ancient apes!????

@Grace-ey7pk 6 жыл бұрын

we have. look up lucy the ape. she was an ape who walked upwards. and we can clearly see that humans have a link to ancient apes looking at obvious similar characteristics

@KossolaxtheForesworn 6 жыл бұрын

pliopithecus proconsul africanus dryopithcus oreopithecus ramapithecus australopithecus afarensis (lusy) paranthropus australopithecus africanus homo erectus early homo sapiens homo erectus soloensis (solo man) homo rhodesiensis homo habilis neanderthal cro-magnon modern homo sapiens

@noahdinosaurman1543 5 жыл бұрын

This is fantastic

@Carbonoid1 6 жыл бұрын

I wonder if Amy is related to physics girl they look and sound so similar! Thanks for another great video I look forward to Eons episodes more than any of my other subs!

@jonathanriley7537 6 жыл бұрын

I'm reading Michael Chricton's "Dragon Teeth" right now. This is awesome timing.

@alexwilk640 6 жыл бұрын

Could you do a video on why this type of science is so important and practical for today? I’m so fascinated by this stuff but a lot of people think it’s all useless :/

@BakedBuddy 3 жыл бұрын

I love the voice of the woman she interviewed.

@ZombieBowling 5 жыл бұрын

I'd like to see a field trip to Ashfall Fossil Beds.

@ThereIsNoGodOnlyUs 6 жыл бұрын

Kallie is simply adorable beyond belief.

@nakenmil 6 жыл бұрын

KALLIE IS SO CUTE! Goddammit, my feelings are so confused.

@NewMexico1912 6 жыл бұрын

One of the earliest primates was discovered by the son of one of my former professors, Tom Williamson in New Mexico

@ulysisxtr 6 жыл бұрын

Awwwwwwwww :) look at her all happy

@user-qj9en1kp1m 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, these jobs are so cool!

@geoffreyzwegers3711 6 жыл бұрын

How did insects evolve wings?

@jamestompkins9048 6 жыл бұрын

There is a 12,000 year old paleo-Indian settlement site just 30 minutes from where I live. I'm pretty sure this is where they have found the oldest stone tools in North America! Access is restricted and so I haven't been able to see it personally. Of course, there are sites similar to this all over America. I would love to see an episode that takes us through a sort of timeline of the oldest sites in America!