The Fossil Fiend
Follow me on my paleontology adventures while I go fossil hunting, then watch how I prep and repair them for display.
I have been fascinated by dinosaurs and fossils as far back I can remember. I read every library book I could find, visited every rock shop I passed (if I could convince my parents to stop) and dragged home every rock if I thought it might have a fossil. That passion never left, but now I can actually pursue that dream a little. Along with paleontology, I love everything outdoors... hiking, camping, exploring, Jeeping, gold mining, bottle digging, metal detecting, and more.
If you like what you see, please like the videos and subscribe to my channel. I love answering questions, and try to respond to all. If you have a question about any place I visit, types of fossil I collect, or tools and techniques for prepping, please be sure to comment.
The Fossil Fiend
Merry Christmas and happy holidays! I hope you are able to spend time with your friends and family this season. To all the service members, cops, firemen, and EMTs on duty, thank you!
1 year ago | [YT] | 9
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Working on the next video upload. This will be a different type of video from what I have done so far, but I hope you will enjoy it as much. I have lots more of this type I want to produce.
1 year ago | [YT] | 22
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Next video will be out this week! The permian hunt continues.
1 year ago | [YT] | 12
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Ok, since I can't talk right now, I decided to let AI talk for me. Video incoming!
1 year ago | [YT] | 2
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The next videos are almost done. Just waiting for this, cold, or covid, or whatever to go away so that I can do the narration I need for a few bits.
1 year ago | [YT] | 6
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It's amazing that I seem to have forgotten exactly how much time it takes to edit a video together. It's coming though!
1 year ago | [YT] | 4
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5 months wasted on a failed venture. Oh well, at least now I can get back to fossils and videos!
1 year ago | [YT] | 2
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Yes, I'm behind on the next video. Editing troubles, and now I'm at the Field Museum recording more. A proper video is coming, I promise. Enjoy this picture Sue the T.rex #suethetrex #fieldmuseum
2 years ago | [YT] | 21
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Today we celebrate the birthday of Dr. Robert Bakker.
Bakker was born in Bergen County, New Jersey. He attributes his interest in dinosaurs to his reading an article in the September 7, 1953, issue of Life magazine. He graduated from Ridgewood High School in 1963.[3]
At Yale University Bakker studied under John Ostrom, an early proponent of the new view of dinosaurs, and later earned his PhD at Harvard.
Bakker has changed the image of dinosaurs from slow-moving, slow-witted, cold-blooded creatures. He posited that dinosaurs had feathers, long before feathered fossils were found, and champions that some dinosaurs were warm blooded.
Bakker is most noted most for his theoretical work on dinosaur habits, habitats and extinction. He is the originator of the controversial hypotheses that dinosaurs may have been warm-blooded, that diseases caused the demise of the dinosaurs, and dinosaur mothers cared for their young. His then controversial theories were first introduced in his groundbreaking 1986 book The Dinosaur Heresies: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their Extinction.
2 years ago | [YT] | 13
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The new video is finally ready! Check it out!
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