Saint George Dinosaur Discovery Site - Full Museum Intro Video

If you've seen my video on reconstructing Dilophosaurus, you may be wanting to learn more about the St. George Dinosaurs Discovery Site Museum in Saint George Utah, which is mentioned toward the end of that video. Here's the full Museum intro video I directed for the Saint George Dinosaur Discovery Site in Saint George Utah. Most of the paleoart featured in my video about Dilophosaurus was actually created for this video which played in the museum until very recently.

This video is currently being broken up into several smaller videos by the museum staff which will play on video kiosks around the exhibit space, so the museum gave me permission to put the full original video up on Youtube for you all to enjoy.

This video is the culmination of about 5 years of communication and collaboration with Dr. Adam Marsh (@NotThatMarsh on twitter & IG) who has been studying #Dilophosaurus​ for the past 6 years, and who recently published a comprehensive description & analysis of this important dinosaur. You can download Adam’s scientific paper for free here:
https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2020.14​

It also features SGDS Paleontologist Andrew Milner (  / andrewtracks  , whose great work excavating and studying the tracks at the site have greatly increased our understanding of early Jurassic dinosaurs in North America, and Dr. Jerry Harris who also works with the museum (  / geologami  .

For more information on the Saint George Dinosaur Discovery Site, visit their website
https://utahdinosaurs.com/
You can also subscribe to their youtube channel:
   / @utahdinosaurs  

For more of my art, visit my website: http://dontmesswithdinosaurs.com​
To support my art directly & get access to more behind the scenes content, consider supporting me on patreon:   / historianhimself​  

This video also features art commissioned by paleontologist ReBecca Hunt-Foster through funding from Utah BLM / Utah Friends of Paleontology. The scene depicting an early Jurassic tracksite was created for an interpretive panel now at the Poison Spider Dinosaur Tracksite near Moab Utah. You can explore this fascinating early Jurassic tracksite (for free) on your public lands near Moab Utah. More information here:
https://www.discovermoab.com/dinosaur...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI0sZ...

Music by Historian Himself

https://historianhimself.bandcamp.com/​
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The End Triassic extinction, and the recovery of earth’s ecologies that followed in the early Jurassic is a really important time for us to study because it relates directly to climate change. The latest data from geology, paleobotany and paleontology suggests that a huge catestrophic extinction that ended the Triassic period was brought about by a sudden increase in atmospheric CO2 which cause runaway global warming and ocean acidification. While the CO2 spike at the end of the Triassic was caused by volcanic eruptions in what is now the central Atlanic cooking through a bunch of marine carbonate rocks and releasing the vast ammounts of CO2 stored in them, the latest data indicates that the rate of CO2 flooding into the atmosphere was about the same as the rate at which humans are flooding the atmosphere with CO2 by burning carbon-rich fossil fuels. This is really really scary. You should be shook. This extinction wiped out many of the most badass toothy, gnarly, armored prehistoric monsters that have ever lived. Here are a few links to get you started on your journey of understanding extinction and the role we play in it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triassi...
https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/seedplants/...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

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