Radioactive Dinosaur Bones

This is a quick demonstration of how some dinosaur and other fossils are radioactive.
This video was inspired by the Blog Post for Mary Anning's Revenge www.maryanningsrevenge.com/201...
Worth checking out!
Anything with higher then 100 Counts Per Minute (CPM) is considered radioactive, and you should limit your exposure.
Note these dinosaur bones measured around 200 CPM, which is equivalent to the exposure of around 5 times that of a medical x-ray. Or about 1milliSv.
Be safe, always wear air masks when working with fossils and the dust they produce. Keep your labs clean and work space free of dust.

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  • @freedomgaming9987
    @freedomgaming99874 ай бұрын

    Interesting. Thank you for the insight.

  • @paleogeology9554
    @paleogeology9554 Жыл бұрын

    I deal in rare Lapidary Materials, I have several hundred pounds of dino Gembone. Its insane how cavalier people are about cutting and wearing dinosaur done for jewelry and polished display specimens

  • @trex7168
    @trex71686 жыл бұрын

    I didn't know that , but I always thought that I should be aware of rocks and the dirt while in Yellow Cat / poison strip of Utah , I'm drawn to that place

  • @ChuckBeefOG
    @ChuckBeefOG4 жыл бұрын

    What would make them radioactive?

  • @HiTechKeema
    @HiTechKeema6 жыл бұрын

    You read that blog too? Sweet!

  • @DINOSAURIA
    @DINOSAURIA4 жыл бұрын

    radioactivity is harmful for humans so its a hazardous job

  • @esbendit
    @esbendit6 жыл бұрын

    Can it be used to date the fossils?

  • @PSUQDPICHQIEIWC

    @PSUQDPICHQIEIWC

    6 жыл бұрын

    maybe, but it would help more if the fossil liked your personality.

  • @alphadarthlupus2995

    @alphadarthlupus2995

    6 жыл бұрын

    yes but they usually use carbon dating on fossils

  • @Saurophaganax1931

    @Saurophaganax1931

    6 ай бұрын

    @@alphadarthlupus2995 you can’t use carbon to date dinosaur bones, it’s half life is too short. They generally use Uranium to lead dating for ages older than 50,000 years old . To answer the OP’s question, yes, though with a caveat. The uranium of the fossil must be incorporated into zircon crystals to prevent the results from being contaminated by outside sources of lead.

  • @Geopholus
    @Geopholus6 жыл бұрын

    You Tube search is (deliberately?) unable to distinguish between various science versus religion hoax video's, and genuine video's about fossils, and evolution. Since in my search so far Your site is about all that I have come up with that is actual science, and my particular interest is Ceratopsid dinosaur fossils from the area's around Turkey and the middle east,.. (like are there any?). I was wondering if You could shed any light on that subject. There was a paleontologist woman I believe who proposed that ancient peoples finding dinosaur fossils realized they represented some kind of skeletal remains of once living creatures, and assigned them "reconstructed" attributes , and mythologized bodies, and ascribed characteristics. So for instance Mythological creatures with an eagles head and a lions body might have come from stories based on fossil remains of ceratopsid dinosaurs , especially that the extended neck plates could "look like wing's" , to an ignorant observer. There is surprisingly little apparently on You Tube that seriously looks into paleontology. I know there are a huge array of different Ceratopsid dinosaurs, and that a lot of them once inhabited what is now the North American west coast. What are the more recent developments in China, and the middle east? Too bad the interest that young people have in dinosaurs, never seems to translate into much increased funding of serious science! And even Nat Geo seems more interested in promoting "aliens from outer space", than the really interesting creatures that once inhabited this earth! for which there are literally millions of tons of solid evidence!

  • @abebayehudesalegn4477
    @abebayehudesalegn44774 жыл бұрын

    Elephant birds gone extinct in 17th /18th century. Thus it will not be short time that dinosaurs GONE EXTINCT with in the last few thousand years.

  • @Jonah9HexFan9978

    @Jonah9HexFan9978

    Жыл бұрын

    First off what does that have to do with the video? And second how does a species of birds somehow prove young earth creationism?

  • @killerkyu8286
    @killerkyu828611 ай бұрын

    Dinosaurs are fake lol😅

  • @tedtw
    @tedtw5 жыл бұрын

    He starts out measuring background (cosmic source) radiation of a fossil present everywhere on Earth. Mask he holds up later is almost *USELESS.* Reason? It does not protect the eyes/facial skin from radioactive contamination. He should be promoting the use of a *full* face mask with disposable clothing for cutting, grinding, etc...

  • @Dwizer.
    @Dwizer.6 жыл бұрын

    gay...

  • @Jonah9HexFan9978

    @Jonah9HexFan9978

    Жыл бұрын

    No you