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“As most of you have heard by now, the Triceratops skeleton known as "Big John", discovered by me in 2014, was auctioned off in Paris this morning and sold for the incredible sum of over 6.4 million dollars. It appears to have been purchased by a private collector in the USA, whose representative I think is the former VP of Animal Kingdom at Disney. It is our hope that it will turn up on display publicly and wind up in a museum someday, so that it can be properly researched, studied and enjoyed by everyone. Time will tell. Congrats to the Italian team at Zoic Inc, who did a nice job finishing the prep, restoration and mounting. Big John is an amazing specimen and I hope the new owners love it as much as we did. I also hope that the skeleton is a beautiful memorial to one of our incredible land owners, John R., the original "Big John", the specimens namesake, who unfortunately passed away of Covid in the fall of 2020. John was one of the nicest and kindest men I've ever known. He was always there to help and would give you the shirt off his back to do so. He always had a smile and a meaningful story to tell. He was the epitome of "soft spoken", but always knew exactly what to say when he did. You will be missed. Also thanks to the many friends and field assistants who helped excavate and prepare Big John including Heather Stein, William and Stephen Stein, Diana Wright, David Howe, Ron Annick, Jason and Jacob Geisen, Dan Albro and especially Isaiah Reed. For those of you who have sent emails and texts of congrats, thank you very much for your support. No, we are not millionaires now, as we sold the skeleton back in 2020 at the onset of the pandemic and global crash. After consulting with the land owners, we decided to let it go, largely unprepared and in jackets. That said, we are going to be VERY reluctant to sell any skeletons unprepared from this point forward. I think we are now past the time when we need to build our own PRIVATE MUSEUM in Western South Dakota and create a not-for-profit 501c-3 org to continue our educational mission. I will be throwing all of my efforts into this project this spring. To the detractors and academics who are complaining about the sale of dinosaur skeletons again... with their manufactured angst.. I have the following official statement... 1) The land owners did not receive a single request for access by academics in the over 50 years that they owned the ranch (until we began finding specimens). I don't think any academics have "legally" ever been on the ranch. 2) We held onto the specimen for 6 years. It was widely advertised, seen at shows, on social media, on our website. It was not a secret. Not a single academic ever made an inquiry or offer on the skeleton. We would have been happy to work with you and would have bent over backwards to get it into a good home in the USA. 3) If we had not collected this skeleton, I am 100% sure that it would still be out there rotting away. 4) Triceratops is not rare by any stretch of the imagination. There are well over 350 known associated skeletons and skulls of this genera. Many of the academics and fanboys seem to forget this point. Big John was "big" hence the name, but this does not make it any more important that any of the other Trikes currently sitting in basements of public institutions you are currently largely ignoring. 5) It is very difficult to get a skeleton into a public institution when the academics at that institution do not return your phone calls or emails, scoff at any purchase, denounce any cooperation with independents like myself, or commercial collectors and in fact treat you like you are the moral equivalent of a . If you want access to private ranches and privately held specimens try something novel... don't be an assh?@!le 6) If you do not like the price at auction... know this: you could have easily purchased the specimen from me for a mere fraction of that price and had access to the site for research. Again, The land owners and myself would have loved this. 7) I currently have two very nice Triceratops skeletons on the shelves and another two potentially in the ground (common genera). If you truly want one, and are not simply puffing up your vapid chests for effect, my phone number is on the website. We are happy to work with anyone who legitimately wants to help advance our understanding of this amazing ecosystem in a respectful and meaningful manner. Cheers...” - Walter Stein

Yeah saying anything absolute on IQ is difficult but I’ve seen some damn intelligent behavior from owls eagles and vultures and I’d say Dromies are smarter than anyone outside of Jurassic park is betting and besides without a living animal measuring intelligence is difficult since there’s no behavior to check and no tests to try on dead bodies

My favourite dinosaur.

Lose the bull about Darwin. He's not even involved in this and almost nothing of his original theory survives into the current day. Darwin thought blacks were closer to monkeys than other people

I was not notified that you uploaded this any many newer videos, I can't believe it! I missed this a lot! It is amazing to me how we can put together what happened in a single place over 9 milion years just by the clues in the enviorment. I love paleontology (I likely spelled this wrong).

Name: Brachiosaurus Meaning of the name: *A R M L I Z A R D*

Very interesting.

What sucks the most about the people hiding bones behind private collections without so much as even letting scientists examine them is, here in the U.S. anyways, a lot of them donate massive amounts of money to museums and the scientists research who could study the bones.

Comment for the algorithm. Always nice to learn more about fossils and dinosaurs.

Still freaking out that trex had feathers

My favorite dinosaur!

nice

Drew!

Canada has its problems, but the fact they have fossil protection laws is one of their few wins. Also, I just noticed you don't have a dinosaur profile on a Ceratopsian yet. I would personally love to see one with all the interesting Ceratopsid finds like the Hilda bonebeds & the domination of Triceratops in The Hell's Creek ecologically.

I wish i could find a whole one.

Ankylosaurus is my second favorite dinosaur. Their texture is very pleasing.

This is crazy. I think in the US you have to show it to scientists and the state may have ownership somehow.

Triceratops are the best dinosaur fight me.

I think estimating speed using fossil footprints tends to underestimate Because those footprints were obviously left in the mud And in mud it can't be the top speed of the species

Excellent! You just earned a new subscriber! Could you do one of these on Fafner; the triceratops in the Science Museum of Minnesota? I know he was made from parts of multiple individuals but I know only the bare bones 🦥of how the parts were found and assembled.

Good to know the fortunate fate of Big John!

Bear in mind most fossils are of animals in they're later stages of life.

Majungasaurus 😜

I know I never said this, but ever since I watched this video on the day you uploaded it, I just couldn't help but imagine what it would be like if Dippy and Fern ever met in the flesh!

I'm sure you might know this, but Allosaurus was poorly treated in 2 episodes of Jurassic Fight Club as the apex predator of the Morrison Formation who has little to fear about its contemporaries. In the Bloodiest Battle episode, three Allosaurus literally killed a lone Ceratosaurus that had already killed a baby Stegosaurus which was stuck in the dried up lakebed, along with its mother that was still alive desperate to free herself. One of the Allos was then killed by the Stegosaurus' thagomizer that she managed to free, leaving two Allosaurus alive, before they go after a bull Camarasaurus ignoring the dead bodies of the baby Stegosaurus and Ceratosaurus. Later on, in Hunter Becomes Hunted, the Allosaurus kills two more Ceratosaurus (male and female) who somehow entered its territory to catch food. I do want to admit that Allosaurus did not compete with Ceratosaurus over food and territory, and definitely never fought each other to the death. And the latter did not go extinct because the former replaced it as the top predator, and they both lived and died together at around the same time 146 to 145 million years ago. And finally, Allosaurus was not actually the real hunter of its environment because you mentioned briefly that it lived alongside Torvosaurus tanneri and "the possible Allosaurus" Saurophaganax. All four of these predators did not compete with each other to the death, because they filled in very different niches.

Would you ever do a profile on a megaraptorid? Just curious they’ve always been so cool despite there mystery. All love from Canada :) keep up the great content

As a scientist, I will go with spikes haha. Just because there are too many terms and names coming out all the time and makes it rather harder to keep up with it. And ''thagomizer'' sounds rather ostentatious to me. However, this is only my opinion! Nevertheless, I absolutely love your videos! Extremely educational, to the point, no annoying snippets from some dumb television series whatever they call them (and this I appreciate greatly!), great structure, well done research, splendid delivery! I often rewatch your videos! I am looking forward to more content! Thank you, Andrew! Greatings from Down Under.

The way dinosaurs consistently developed spinal structures would suggest that predators would go for a spine bite to disable prey

Really cool! I find this channel fascinating with its in-depth explorations of these animals. Looking forward to future videos, thank you!

That is really really cool

Maybe these were actually farmers. Feathers were used to spread out and plant seeds for their crop. The giant claw was used to harvest the crop to save for Winter.

Ranks repeat viewing. Many thanks!

Nice video man.

These are very educational! I'd love to see me

Only just found this channel. It's legit excellent.

These are actually great vids. Don't know why views and subs don't have an extra zero after them.

I had no idea that dippy had camara arms 😂

More videos, pleeeaaaseee

I love dinosaur eggs for tea.

Great account!

Thanks! Should have called this video “the bronze dinasour”

Even people who aren't into dinosaurs as much as everyone else they've seen Dippy before in the original star wars on Tatooine.

I was wondering if a lighter yet weather resistant alternative material for Fern can be suggested. Bronze is indeed very heavy.

Hell yeah!