This was so cool, I would love to spend a day here looking at the insane amount of fossils they have on display. Also, just wanted to say I absolutely love the channel and to keep up the good work
Getting to visit BHI was a bucket list location but getting the tour from Pete himself of the museum & warehouse was just the cherry on top. Hopefully we can go back to see what else gets added in the future!
Just stopped here yesterday, had seen this video months ago and knew we had a planned trip to Sturgis so have been excitingly awaiting to come see this museum..... I want to say THANK YOU!!!!! Without this video I would have never known of this museum and it did not disappoint. I had the time of my life walking around and seeing all the fossils and having watched your history of the earth videos, I recognized many of the different fossils and the videos you had mentioned them in- literally made the experience so much better. My friends were all over the big dinosaur fossils while I was checking out every one of the smaller ones in the displays on the side walls realizing that they were each different periods- I can not say it enough THANK YOU for your videos, cause without them I would not of been able to fully appreciate the museum, nor known about it, the way I was able to. Literally the best part of this trip so far - at least for me. I highly recommend anyone who comes out this way to check out this museum, especially if your a fan of this channel- it will not disappoint. Thank you again for all you do on this channel, and look forward to all your future videos.
I'd love to go see that amazing place! And it isn't so very far off that I wouldn't be able to go see it, if I can ever put my shattered life back together. I can only hope.
This looks so cool. Dad was a geologist, and taught me all the value of these kinds of things. Now, I'm a Europe kind of gal, but if any time in my own country's history is interesting to me, it'd be prehistoric. I really ought to think about taking a few weeks off eventually and going on a vacation to see places like this.
One of my favorite places to visit in the Black Hills. Why isn’t Everything Prehistoric in the Best of the Black Hills Contest 2024? They would surely get my vote! Just wish I lived closer so that I could go there more often.
If you have the time, I would highly recommend travelling to Morrill Hall in Lincoln, NE. They have an impressive hall of elephants and even (I think) the largest Columbian mammoth on display.
Whoa, just found out about your channel recently and this is really cool. I'd like to visit some museum with real dinosaur fossils some day. Keep up the good work!!
So I live in the Black Hills, and Hill City for a time. I was just coming out of high school and wanted to work at BHI. I didnt understand the signifigance at the time but he let me clean some mammoth teeth in the back lol! Since then I attribute the smell of plaster to be the smell of paleontology. Also have you gone to our School of Mines museum of geology? Highly recommend. Lots of minerals but a healthy cast of fossils and displays. My favorite is the mosasaur.
Can’t believe you are moving to Florida instead of relocating to the Fossil Heaven of DAK-Wyo-Mont. Does Florida have any Institute that compares to the Black Hills? Thanks for the Videos!
Well for one thing, Florida is the home I have learned to appreciate and miss over the past 4 years. But when it comes to fossil hunting specifically Florida has one of the best relationships between amateur and professional paleontologists in the country. The fact that you can get a permit that allows you to hunt for fossils on state land cannot be overstated in how much of a big deal that is. In SD you CANNOT hunt on state land period. The only way a amateur can hope to hunt for fossils is to get permission from a private land owner.
We do actually have a number of good institutions and museums here in our state. Both the Florida Natural History Museum and the Palm Beach Museum Of Natural History have a lot of locally collected material on display from the Pleistocene. The Palm Beach museum actually has a lot of material from the Dakota’s including the only fossil dinosaur on display in all of South Florida.
Yay! Someone compares the post-cranial bones of nano! I've been to the museum of the rockies and wondered about some Jack Horners claims. Call me a skeptic at heart. Anyone can claim anything, but show people both sides and let them decide. My big takeaway from the triceratops "growth sequence" was: ok, so when did the fossils live, and where? As long as they lived during the same time range-ish (within reason because fossilization is really hard) and the same area then it's plausible. There was no post cranial material or images displayed either, just skulls hand picked-not 5 of 1, 4 of another 6 of a 3rd etc...
i have a suggestion for a future video you could make about the whole t rex vs nanotyrannus debate, like is nanotyrannus its own species or is it just a juvenile t rex?
I did a poll on Instagram once asking people for their opinions on this debate. It was literally 50/50 between juvenile Rex and separate species. 🤣 To be honest I don't know if I want to touch that with a ten foot pole.
From the ones I have spoken to, I was say pretty much. If I wanted to make a video about that subject I would probably try my best to talk about it from both sides and present it fully.
Interesting but holy cow the museum is so crowded. Makes me wish I was rich to donate a larger building to them. Lol. Also what is with the last minute and half to two minutes of a black screen and nothing else ? Was there more to this video before ?
Are those Trex bones in exhibition authentic or just replicas? I’m planning going there soon… I’m big dino fan and I’d like to see an authentic t rex fossil..