Turning $1,000,000 Dinosaur Fossils into Jewelry

Back in October I took a trip over to The Hell Creek in Montana to drop off custom pendants for the @Hellcreek_Hooligans (IG). After getting their pieces, Luke and Daniel showed us around their private excavation site where, ultimately, they're sitting on a gold mine of dinosaur fossils. The Hooligans show us their paleontological process of digging, processing, and preserving these fossils which have been sitting for about 65 million years. Back at their processing lab, we meet their father Clayton Phipps, the man behind the biggest paleontological discovery of all time, The Dueling Dinosaurs. He gives us a first hand recollection of how he found the site and gives us an extensive tour of his inventory and personal collection.

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Hit up the boys @hellcreek_hooligans on Instagram if you're interested in purchasing a dinosaur fossil.

0:00:00 Intro
0:00:14 Traveling to The Hell Creek
0:00:43 Gold Chains w/ T-Rex Teeth
0:01:09 Digging Up Fossils
0:03:28 The Dinosaur Lab
0:05:40 The Dueling Dinosaurs
0:08:51 Fossil Inventory
0:09:57 Clayton's Personal Collection
0:11:31 Processing Fossils & Outro

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