Digging For Fossils In The Dinosaur Capital Of America | Dinosaur Hunt: A Time Team Special
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- Robinson and Harding travel to the Rocky Mountains in Montana, USA, for this special programme on dinosaurs and the professional and private 'dinosaur hunters' who seek and recover fossil remains. Accompanying several digs, they soon learn that the methods used by the dinosaur hunters turn out to be similar to those employed by archaeologists. After joining a museum dig to excavate the bones of various tyrannosauroids, they discover the profitable tourist industry that dinosaur hunting has spawned in the US. Their journey culminates in a trip to the Badlands, where they help dinosaur hunter Jack Horner dig up the remains of a tyrannosaurus.
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Rest in Peace, Bob. It was an honor digging by your side.
Original airdate 2001, if anyone is wondering. But Tony and Phil are timeless. It's nice they had fun this side of the pond.
Do you have any idea what book they are looking at?
I came to the comments to find out. Thank you.
Thanks, I was wandering how old was it with all the CRT monitors in the lab.
I actually was wondering, thanks!
Thank you was thinking when it aired
I was happy to see the Time Team visit my state and to meet Jack Horner. He's a legendary Montanan. His work withe the Museum of the Rockies (I was there last week) was phenomenal.
Phil digging dinos? How fricking cool is this gonna be.
The next Jurassic Park movie needs to star Phil and Tony.
Yeah! But as diggers or as snacks ? :o
"ooh err! Look 't that!"
Actually, now I know how he feels about snakes maybe we'd get to hear Phil high pitched screaming and see him run like the wind?
"We're here in Mawntawna"
I love Tony Robinson
Honestly my favorite part
Huh? How is the right lane the wrong one in the US? Are you daft? Or just stewpid?
@@itzel1735 Not a good one!
@@itzel1735 Sorry, im a bit rude when i drink. Hope you have a good day
I'm not sure what I love more, Phil's passion for his work, or the Phil/Tony dynamic
Just mind the edge of the trench
Of course he had "passion." You would have "passion" too getting paid handsomely to tell stories & flat out lie to the public.
I'm from Utah and I find the way he pronounces "Montana" hilarious!
I searched for your comment! 😊 I'm from the Idaho panhandle and I laughed out loud when he said "Montana." 🤣
I’m from CA and I went to the comments immediately hahaha
Hello from Salt Lake City
I was puttering around while listening and had a good chuckle when I heard it
Just two British blokes driving on the right side of the road through "Mon-tawn-na" and having "a go" recovering dinosaur fossils! Love it!!
As an American I got so excited when I saw Time Team were in the USA! I’m only disappointed I didn’t know at the time that they were here. I absolutely love this show, and am glad they were able to do some excavating on ‘our’ soil.
“We haven’t passed a turn for 75 miles” 😂
Welcome to Montana! 😂
Phil: "Is that your bone?"
Tony: "In a manner of speaking..."
lol
Having the Time Team here in the US was great fun. I know it was a long time ago, but I've only now seen this for the first time. I had to laugh at the music they decided on for this show.
Oh boy - I love the English Pronunciation "Mon-Tahna" LOL!
Love the "Time Team". They always seem like they have fun with their important work, & don't take themselves too seriously. Good Tony & Phil got their hands on some REALLY ancient history.
@Dr. Octogon They ARE amusing, are they not? They never take themselves too seriously.
The best way to learn new things, is to have fun.. 😊
@@einienj3281 Truer words were never spoken, friend! Thanks much for your reply!
@@cdfdesantis699 😊🤟🏻
@@einienj3281 😉🦕
Hearing Tony/Baldrick/Sir Anthony (good on you, you deserve the honor), and any or all of the Time Team brings a smile to me and learning something new. Thanks!
The way Tony pronounces Montana is hilarious... I'm surprised no one corrected him while he was there.
Montona
I don’t think anyone with that kind of English accent knows how to pronounce a word with the ă sound. Years of the rigid elite school system curriculum makes it physically impossible for them to do so. For example, listen to how Keira Knightley pronounced “Santa Clara” in Bend it Like Beckham….Made me want to laugh and squirm at the same time!
I loved the surprise on their faces when they saw the ‘this is one I prepared earlier’ foot.
I’d love you boys to do a similar special in outback Queensland where they are digging out huge and very Australian dinosaurs. I’m pretty sure that would be a good enough excuse to book a ticket to come and see us in Oz.
Sadly, the show is no longer being made, and won't be coming back. But Tony is still hosting for various other similar shows.
@@yeetghostrat Go check the Time Team channel, you will be pleasantly surprised
@Sabby D Edit: holy wow! They are back!! Thank you for telling me!
[Original] surprised? I know they keep posting more videos steadily on TH-cam, but the show was canceled in 2014, after Mick passed away.
@@yeetghostrat Yeah, I knew the show had stopped. I'm glad you're as excited as I am about the shows return 😊
@@yeetghostrat lol it's been back for a bit now and tony has just rocked up to join the party UPON EXTREMELY POPULAR DEMAND. We basically continually whinged til he came back 😌😌😌🤣🤣🤣🤣 I am proud.
Love Tony's absolute confidence in Phil's navigating, lol. "We haven't seen a turning for 75 miles!" Reminds me of the time we were flying back home to Vancouver, BC from England some years ago. Right next to us were 2 young English guys, bicyclists, who were planning on biking from Vancouver to Mexico along the coastline highway and they figured it would only take a few days ....we asked if they'd ever been to North America before. "Nope, but we biked in France!" They figured they'd be okay because they biked the Pyrenees....by the time we arrived in Vancouver, and they'd seen the size of Canada, they weren't quite so sure they'd make it to Mexico in the timeline they'd planned for themselves....
It never takes long for Europeans to understand our fascination/infatuation with the automobile, when you have cover a hundred miles for a shopping trip.😅
It was really fun to see Tony and Phil out of their elements and have to rely on someone else to be the experts. Really interesting special.
To be fair, Tony always relies on someone else to be his expert 😅
In seriousness I think it's what makes him a fabulous presenter. Not knowing stuff means you ask interesting questions.
"Why have you got mustard? There's no meat left on that bone." - classic Baldrick.
Yes this is a great episode. So nice to see how much reverence Phil has for the bones.
I've seen this episode a couple of times over the years including its original airing.
It's so good to see Phil digging in a different context. I love palaeontology almost as much as I love archaeology. Fossil hunting would be so cool.
So happy to see the guys in old USA😊. Welcome🎉. Even tho it was 20 some years ago 😢. I never tire of seeing them❤
Yh just watched it recently myself lol..really good episode!!makes me love and respect Phil so much more!!it also reminded me of my love for dinosaur stuff and wanting to be a paleontologist
“It’s tantamount to having a dig and flogging off the find.” Yes that is exactly what it is Phil!
If you don't like it, don't do it.
Don't like cigarettes, don't smoke.
Don't like abortion, don't have one.
Don't like guns, don't own one.
The mustard is my favourite moment of this episode.
"Have you ever handled a fossil?"
"Does Mick Aston count?"
😂😂😂😂😂😂
I swear, every paleontology video I watch was filmed in the 90's or early 2000's. I love it.
Used to love the old Time Team. I remember we pulled into somewhere near Lake Powell in the USA and outside was a huge dinosaur 🦕 footprint. It was a wow moment. That was 2005 🦕🦕👵👵🇦🇺🇦🇺
Jack Horner and Phil Harding in the same space. My 2 most favorite!!!!
This was cool. A lady across the road from me, when I was a younger lad, was a retired archaeologist. She had many small fossils but my favourite was the 4-5 inch Megalodon tooth. It was shiny and black and obviously quite heavy from mineralisation.
Such a fascinating field of study, eyes into the past. 🖖🏼🇦🇺
When young, which means long ago, my father took me fossil hunting in Alberta, in the badlands / Drumheller area. There were plenty to be found, that was near 60 years ago and I remember it clearly.
I live in calgary and I still love finding fossils out there in the wild badlands
Does Mick Aston count? Had me rollin!!!
I came here 4 this comment 😂👍🏻 i was screaming! 😂😂😂😂😂
I love how this turned into Dateline: Dino Black Market.
I enjoy watching Time Team on YT and wondered if you would ever get over to this side of the world. I live in northern Colorado and there are sites near here where we would visit when I was in college with fossils, mostly sea creatures, right up on the surface. Very enjoyable and interesting!
For some reason, I feel especially honored that your here in our country. Sure hope you met good people and had fun.
I have enjoyed Time Team for a number of years now. My favorite binge watch. Having said that, you do get a bit full of Romans, Saxons, and Picts. I had always want3ed to see the boys in the US, either on a dino dig, or maybe excavating an American Indian settlement. Have at it! And Thank you!
Alot of work involved in those dinosaurs. Appreciate following along!
There's not much to be dug up in US, as a lot of the settlements are in areas that are inert, so therefore looted. There's stories on inland settlements found with mostly standing cobbled walls, tools resting on them and fire pits still visible. Various items long since gone, looted by the first European settlers.
Glad to see Tony and Phil in America and having fun.
Welcome to my home state. Born and raised in and around Billings, Montana.
I have watched all of the digs they've done with their series. But this is the one that seems the most "fun." Something new for them to explore. And they seem to really enjoy it. Especially Phil. 😊 To me this is one of their top 10 digs ever.
Phil: "I have successfully navigated you to Wolf Creek"
Me: "I think you made a wrong turn somewhere and ended up in Australia. Look out for Uncle Mick"
Me too
So glad you've been able to come to USA. I hope you enjoyed your time.
Nice documentary. This is the first time I've seen it.
A nice break from the usual "Well, this looks like a different wall that intersects with these 12 other walls and butts up against the outside of this structure, which we believe to be an ancient Roman hand-ball court." On another subject, Phil should get a holster for his trowel.
Lovely episode.
This is like what the history Channel used to be
👊 but ur dad built the dinosaurs 😅
It literally is what the History Channel used to be. Those trucks were new models then 😂
Other than ww2 programs this is exactly what the history channels bread n butter was all about. Too bad its utter trash now
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes!
You mean the grey's didn't kill the dinosaurs?!
Wonderful!!
Tony and Phil in the states digging ❤❤
I do love the Tony / Phil dynamic!
My favorite part: Phil and Tony singing the 1964 hit, "A World Without Love." It was a "fab" rendition. I love the rapport the people on this show enjoy.
Time Team is a fabulous show, thanks
Great documentary!!! Very well done with fantastic narration. Thank you! I've been fascinated by dinosaurs since very early childhood
This is a BBC show called Time Team, it ran for 20 seasons with a total of 286 episodes. It's amazing, and they've had a huge positive influence on archeology and UK history.
You can find all of it here on TH-cam for free, from various sources. Some of the sources, like this channel, are completely legal repostings.
Glad to see you boys came accross the pond to see us!!!🙅♀️🙆♀️👋👍
Love these oldies!! More please!!
The show they're on is pretty good too! -_^
How the heck is this the first time I am seeing this one? Nice to see these two come to 'Merica...😊
Can we have a new show where Tony and Phil go to dig sites in the US, Canada, and Australia?! Or the whole world?
They're a bit old now, doubt that's gonna happen. But, there's new episodes of Time Team, crowdfunded and Tony is back from to time.
Tony and David Attenborough traveling the world explaining it all to us.
@@aserta Or just go to Salisbury Chapel and you'll probably run into Phil.
It's crazy how good these people are at identifying fossils. I would just see rocks, but they see a specific bone from a specific dinosaur. Very impressive.
I grew up in that part of Montana! This is like a trip home!! I had Ice Cream in Choteau more times than I can count!!
No matter what year I love these guys ❤️ and miss the others!
Thanks for making me homesick. I grew up near Wolf Creek and know this area well 😢. Cool thing about fossils in Montana (and Kansas where I currently live) is you can be out walking and stumble across great fossils
Idk if its the way he pronounces montana or the little brittish phrases with banjo music but this was so entertaining beyond just the educational factor 😂
I’m lucky to be north of Montana in Alberta, where we have a rich deposit of dinosaur fossils as well
I like these two, it's great seeing them here in the USA. This was a great episode. 👍🍀
Phil has gone Indiana Jones “ IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM!!” 😂😂
This was an excellent programme
Those two are having a blast!! 😅
Wow this is one episode i never knew existed, thanks for the video I know i will enjoy it!
This is one that I was unaware of, what a treat! I've come to have an almost personal like familiarity with TT Cast, they each are so endearing.
Phil got that dino bone selling rant going wearing daisy dukes😄
@jay oakes - The shorts are alarming, but not THAT bad as "Daisy Dukes".
There's nothing disturbing about Phil's shorts. He has great legs and some of us rather enjoy watching Phil strut his stuff in those shorts.
Nice to see them driving on the correct side of the vehicle and the roadway. 😉
I knew it: Time Team Special - Time Team Classics Team. Go guys go...
Just drove through the Rockies! Absolutely stunning
Just remembered that Phil always had his cowboy hat on every single time..
To see him without, is almost like seeing him naked..
Would never have thought Phil going out without his beloved hat
Nice rebroadcast!
Interesting you two came all the way across the pond to visit & dig for dinosaur bones.
What an adventure you 2 had!!
Somehow I think nothing could have prepared Tony for those distances!
90s to 2000 is the most interesting part of dinosaurs fossil finding, I hope I can see the documentary of that time.. Your documentary reminds me of that time.. Very nice excited time of Dino fossils , documentary and even movies.. ❤
Welcome to the United States, hope to see hear more often 👍🇺🇲
A must watch ❤ lovely account of live treasure hunting !
Tony is fun on traveling the world by train.
The British descriptive words, Wild West, made me chuckle.
Great to have them in the US. Think Phil would fit right in out west and could find all kinds of neat stuff.
I am so glad to see Phil and Tony, even if from 22 years ago. So far I have missed them in the UK these days.
The way Tony says "Mahn tahn na".
This was awesome!! I hope they go back again!!
Love Tony and Phil. What a great adventure.
lol tonys own show has become a time capsule,the internet he used 🤣🤣🤣
The T Rex in New York City's Museum of Natural History came from this area of Montana. It is an extraordinary specimen. Now I see how much time and effort must have gone into unearthing and preparing it for display.
That’s Mahn-tah-na, please.
Phil jumping to conclusions and asking palientologists questions like "so this is how it died?" And getting nervous answers like "uhhhhh maybe" seems like some weird upside down backwards universe where he has become the Tony!
The son charges people to help with the dig and the mother sells the bones at her shop.😂
@Geams - As seem in the video, both mother and son claimed that he doesn't sell fossils in her shop. Fingers crossed that it's true.
@@MossyMozart i for one believe it. true scientists wont sell these things. And you can see in the mother's eyes that she knows what shes doing isnt approved by her son.
@@Heeyitsmika
Are you kidding? It's obvious he's lying when he talks about it. He literally sounds ashamed as he speaks.
So glad to see Tony and Phil in my neck of the woods!
At 38:06, the sight of the SUV kicking up dust as it flies around a bend in the road, and the accompanying music...I was half-expecting several pick-up trucks full of angry locals waiving shotguns in pursuit, and a voice-over by Waylon Jennings. :D Great episode - never saw this one before. Thanks for sharing this!
Phil and Tony are my favorites love 💘you guys
I was going to say you should come to Australia to dig for dinosaurs but if Phil is terrified of snakes probably not a good idea.
I adore this channel I hope we get more prehistoric documentaries from you.
Cute adventure, with serious issues pointed out.
I was an employee at the Museum of the Rockies at Montana State back in 1995.
at 24:44 Phil gets into a right-hand-drive vehicle. They had been left driven 'til then.
The guy who was like "I don't know they're just cool," when asked why he likes dinosaurs... I vibe with him
Loved this episode
I am absolutely LIVING for the way Tony pronounced Montana, HE IS SO PRECIOUS 😌😌😌💕💕💕
Try pronouncing Cholmondley.