Yakima River Canyon Fossils with Meaghan Wetherell

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  • Опубликовано: 24 дек 2024

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  • @BlGGESTBROTHER
    @BlGGESTBROTHER 2 года назад +29

    Meaghan has an incredible personality and is a very good scientific communicator! I really enjoyed this video and would love to see more collaboration with her in the future!

  • @laureneolsen8624
    @laureneolsen8624 2 года назад +12

    Thank you Nick for introducing us to this interesting , and funny person. We’d love to see more of her. Thank you Meaghan!!

  • @sergiovelazquez1259
    @sergiovelazquez1259 2 года назад +1

    Thank you, Nick, for introducing to me Meaghan, she is awesome!

  • @janicemartin1580
    @janicemartin1580 2 года назад +11

    Meaghan is a hoot! So peppy and fun. I had to immediately go watch 2 million years of rain. Super informative.

  • @lorrainewaters6189
    @lorrainewaters6189 2 года назад +3

    Cool lady! I am a big fan of slugs and snail, as well as Meaghen! They are really beautiful creatures microscopically, and by the naked eye, too!

  • @OkieJammer2736
    @OkieJammer2736 2 года назад +3

    She is terrific! 👏 What a hoot to hear the word 'elephant ' among the vertebrate animals discovered.

  • @Rachel.4644
    @Rachel.4644 2 года назад +6

    One smart person there! You keep finding the coolest subjects and people, Nick. One thing leads to another for anyone the least bit curious. There's a lot happening that most of us knew nothing about. Joy! Thanks Meaghan and Nick.

  • @cindyleehaddock3551
    @cindyleehaddock3551 2 года назад +8

    Thanks, Nick and Meaghan for another look at what's going on in CWU Geology! We need more fun and enthusiastic profs like you guys so more people get curious along with you! Maybe we need a fossil version of Time Team especially with Jurassic Park making another round in theaters, to get kids out and studying and finding the mammals, too, not just the dinosaurs!

  • @Steviepinhead
    @Steviepinhead 2 года назад +8

    Awesome and hilarious! It's incredible how articulate almost all of Nick's "guest" scientists are. We drove through the Yakima Canyon on our way back from visiting the Saddle Mountains Tuesday a week ago (the public site, not the private land).

  • @kyleroth1025
    @kyleroth1025 2 года назад +3

    Thank you Professor Zentner

  • @johnjunge6989
    @johnjunge6989 2 года назад +6

    What's crazy, I had already seen the Eons "time it rained for 2m years", but did not know she was the author. Actually they did not list her in the credits! Lawsuit!! She was left out!
    I watch Eons episodes alot, very interesting stuff!

  • @oscarmedina1303
    @oscarmedina1303 2 года назад +4

    There are fossils all over the place if you keep your eyes open. I have found fossils in the fill used to create the archery range where I shoot, on the beaches near the cliffs in La Jolla and even just taking a walk near my house. "Ghost" fossils are also pretty cool to find. Loved this episode. Thanks Nick!

    • @oscarmedina1303
      @oscarmedina1303 2 года назад

      @@macking104 Thanks for the info. Prof. Pat Abbott's book "The Rise and Fall of San Diego" has a lot of good info about the La Jolla area along with the book "Geology Underfoot in Southern California".

    • @oscarmedina1303
      @oscarmedina1303 2 года назад

      @@macking104 Yes. I've seen his videos and have recommended them to several other people. Prof. Abbott is a very interesting person. I've chatted with him several times. He's done several new videos that you can find by searching for Mission Gorge.

  • @wtpauley
    @wtpauley 2 года назад +3

    I can honestly say I've seen her PBS Eons contributions, before this video, so that's pretty cool to see someone involved with that.

  • @Engineer1980
    @Engineer1980 2 года назад +2

    Dr. Weatherall was most interesting!! Very knowledgeable. Her wonderful sense of humor and love for the topics would make it very cool to be one of her students!

  • @johnjunge6989
    @johnjunge6989 2 года назад +6

    Meaghan's speciality area is very interesting. Its amazing where these bones are found. Guess its time ( as soon as gas prices get reasonable ), to go looking. Wish I had more areas to look!

  • @briangarrow448
    @briangarrow448 2 года назад +5

    Over the years I have seen groups of students, (college age), collecting samples of fossils in Grays Harbor county along roadside cuts on State Highway 12 and State Route 8.

  • @avenillacastienkersteter8283
    @avenillacastienkersteter8283 2 года назад +1

    Thank you to Megan and Nick for a very interesting talk. I learned something new and it peeked my interest. Now I have another rabbit hole to go down.

  • @jayolson578
    @jayolson578 2 года назад +4

    This is awesome!!!! Keep the great content and videos coming Nick.

  • @joanneslund5100
    @joanneslund5100 2 года назад +1

    I remember going across the Umptanum bridge in the '70s and finding arrow heads in the Yakima Canyon

  • @charliebartholomew1564
    @charliebartholomew1564 2 года назад +3

    Hy Meaghan and Nick. Good we have fossils

  • @דורוןפרנקו-ע4ש
    @דורוןפרנקו-ע4ש 2 года назад +2

    I was born in RHODESIA in SAILSBURY that was when I was hooked on Paleontology i was happy to know they have discovered Dinosaurs in RHODESIA in the zambizi plateau they discovered in RHODESIA the dinosaur Vulcandon and I think Syntararus

  • @calebtar
    @calebtar 2 года назад +2

    Would love to have an update on this toe!

  • @faithijn8338
    @faithijn8338 2 года назад +2

    interesting and the Toe structure was as well... I am going to stick with my rocks for now but would enjoy hearing more about fossils. Thank you again Nick for asking great questions too.

  • @ziggstah5307
    @ziggstah5307 2 года назад +2

    Wow Nick branching into Biology amazing

  • @gabepurpur
    @gabepurpur 2 года назад +1

    How cool! I definitely wanted to dig up dinosaurs as a kid. Also love the PBS Eons series so it was great to put a face to some of the writing.

    • @gibbyrockerhunter
      @gibbyrockerhunter 2 года назад

      If you ever make it to Utah it is hard not to find any.

  • @reidflemingworldstoughestm1394
    @reidflemingworldstoughestm1394 2 года назад +2

    Gotta watch those horizons and background shots Nick. It only took about 5 or 10 minutes to find that toe.

  • @rayschoch5882
    @rayschoch5882 2 года назад +1

    Cool! Different background(s), different products / studies using that background.

  • @brentkeller3826
    @brentkeller3826 2 года назад +3

    The video of you digging out the specimen must be edited to include a pick axe, words of power, and blasting runes where you shear the mountain in half but your hammer falls down a tiny crack in the rock and sparks off an invasion of drow from the underdark.
    (Drow fully simulated by students during finals week minus coffee.)
    It must be done, because it must.
    Thanks for the video, was interesting to see the bone textures and how it varied across the sample.

  • @GrayPlayer
    @GrayPlayer 2 года назад +1

    Great video, fossil finding! Awesome!!!

  • @whitby910
    @whitby910 2 года назад +1

    What a great video,

  • @aciagriculturalconstructio2264
    @aciagriculturalconstructio2264 2 года назад +1

    I recently found a fossilized horse hoof (Coffin Bone) on the foothills outside LaGrande Oregon. How does a person go about having that looked at so I can learn more about my find?

  • @donaldhopkins2604
    @donaldhopkins2604 2 года назад +1

    Great to watch. Please remind everyone about permits.

  • @royireland1127
    @royireland1127 2 года назад +1

    You mentioned your favorite fossil, or your specialty, but it went by so fast I could not hear what it was, I got that it was very common but that it no longer has any living descendants, So, do you recall what I am referring to? Please let me know what it was.
    Loved the show.

  • @scottowens1535
    @scottowens1535 2 года назад +1

    What a pleasure, learned something. The weathering of the toe bone,yet the interior webbing intact.
    Question?
    Meg said something about deer mouse. How many teeth do they have on the bottom jaw?
    Found a shrew like Lower jaw in high desert Oregon, my thinking it's way old no teeth just sockets,,, but it has the brown red look of a fully restored specimen. Just counted, 13?
    sockets right side lower jaw, seems like almost all pointy teeth except for the last back one may be double socket?molar ish. Sorry no reference for correct terminology.
    Just let you know, oldest daughter a Meg, so full respect and hugs from pop's 😉

  • @complimentary_voucher
    @complimentary_voucher 2 года назад +1

    More fossils would be great 👍

  • @gibbyrockerhunter
    @gibbyrockerhunter 2 года назад +2

    Damn. I found some back when I was eleven. 2001. I wish I would have know it wasn’t well known. Also surprised no one realized it. I mean, very basic geology says they are there. My 6th grade science teacher told me about it. He said they had been collecting fossils since the late 70’s to early 80’s here.

    • @gibbyrockerhunter
      @gibbyrockerhunter 2 года назад +1

      If any one who has the ability to date them I would love to get rid of a few of my specimens. Only if I get know how old they are.

  • @davec9244
    @davec9244 2 года назад +3

    You know some very nice people. Both Meaghan and Sion, would be fun to just hang out with, but I know the conversation will always end up about science that is a good thing. Paleontology to me is what was that and when, Geology is where was that and what happened? Thank you, ALL stay safe

  • @myrachurchman5013
    @myrachurchman5013 2 года назад +2

    Fossils? Envy!

  • @דורוןפרנקו-ע4ש
    @דורוןפרנקו-ע4ש 2 года назад +2

    The first fossil that I saw was a Ammonite Big fossil at the age of 5

  • @דורוןפרנקו-ע4ש
    @דורוןפרנקו-ע4ש 2 года назад +2

    I do fossil collecting in my neighborhood in Israel 🇮🇱 where my fossil's are from the Mesozoic Era Cretaceous period the Senonian the fossils i collected mostly are Marine invertebrates i have collected a few Vertebrate remained Shark tooth and Fish vertebrae i found other fossils i can't recognise

  • @Titus-as-the-Roman
    @Titus-as-the-Roman 2 года назад +3

    You being a Paleontologist it's perfectly obvious with your historical choice, me being a layman find the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum period highly interesting, what caused it, why did it get so hot and why it dropped off so relatively quickly.

  • @TheDevice9
    @TheDevice9 2 года назад +1

    This is what I wanted to do when I grew up. I blew it. Is that toe fossilized or is it bone? Sure looks like bone in the center. Wow.

  • @jonadams8841
    @jonadams8841 2 года назад +2

    Go Wildcats!

  • @kidmohair8151
    @kidmohair8151 2 года назад +1

    like and a comment...two bits!

  • @tinkmarshino
    @tinkmarshino 2 года назад +1

    Tick tock Nick... Thought I do not really know what a tick tock is... other then the old rhymes..

  • @222foont
    @222foont 2 года назад +1

    Vini, Vidi, Fossum

  • @KozmykJ
    @KozmykJ 2 года назад +1

    Ooops !!

  • @borg22222
    @borg22222 2 года назад +1

    Nice…as usual….

  • @jonadams8841
    @jonadams8841 2 года назад +1

    Another specialty is standing on the edge of a mud rock scarp…

  • @barneymiller6204
    @barneymiller6204 2 года назад

    Do these guys ever consider how it would feel to have a rock come down from up above and hit you in the head? I think I would want to wear a hard hat if I was going to do this type of work.

  • @דורוןפרנקו-ע4ש
    @דורוןפרנקו-ע4ש 2 года назад

    Meaghen wetherell i know when you find Vertebrate fossils it is something special especially when you find dinosaur bones because we are closer to Mammals we feel excited and as say as Robert Bakker says Dinosaur were Warm blooded they are closer to Birds I read his controversial book the Dinosaur Hersey's

  • @Sköldpadda-77
    @Sköldpadda-77 2 года назад +1

    Wildcats…yawn. What a common and dull mascot. CWU should have been the Blue Agates!