Cracked Dinosaur Fossils? Here's How We Save Them in the Field 🧩🦕
This massive dinosaur bone was already cracked when we found it — but instead of breaking it, we used natural splits to separate it safely 🦴💡. With glue, patience, and yes… aluminum foil, we saved it for transport!
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separate this.
We're going to stabilize that end.
We're going to just wrap that piece up.
This is going to be the one that's going
to be the
the hard one. This is a very flat,
very big bone. So, we can see as I'm
flexing this, you can see that cracks
wanting to open up. See, now we've not
broke this bone. All we've done is just
not put glue into that crack. Every one
of these would have came apart like this
naturally if we let it.
You can see where we've glued it.
Yeah, we had to glue all these to keep
it from falling apart.
But we on purpose left this unglued so
that we could do this.
So So here's here's something just to
show everybody. So as I'm moving this,
you can see a second crank opening up.
So, what I'm going to do is determine
which one is the cleanest crack that
looks like it wants to be a nice clean
break that'll go back together so we
don't have to worry about it. I'm going
to glue this one. Put it back together.
This accelerator that'll make it set up
really quick so we're not burning a half
hour of field time waiting for glue to
set up.
I can see one little teeny piece wanting
to separate right there just so we don't
lose it.
And hopefully
it's a nice clean break. So when we put
that back together,
that's going to be just a nice clean
break. Reynolds Aluminum Foil Company.
We are using your foil to dig dinosaurs.
A lot of your foil.
A lot of your foil. Wouldn't it be
awesome to have a sponsorship deal with
guys digging dinosaurs using your foil?
Your foil is so tough and so great that
we use it to wrap dinosaurs.
Then we go back to camp and eat ribs.
Cooked with your foil.
That's right. The reason why we use
aluminum foil is because it molds to the
bone.
And it's almost like a
like a cast.
Like a cast.
We'll actually put all these coils
together and wrap it all up in one. But
that's pretty much it.
Perfect, guys. This is awesome. So,
we've got one out. We've got more going
in. So, we're going to focus down,
concentrate, and continue