Dinosaurs: A Time Team Special
30 December 2001

Finds and photo gallery

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Phil at work excavating a dinosaur bone – and still keeping Tony out of his trench, or 'quarry', as dinosaur diggers call it.

Cleaning and preserving dinosaur bones back at the museum.

Dinosaur hunter Professor Jack Horner, who has found seven of the two dozen or so T Rex dinosaurs discovered worldwide.

The evocatively named Hell Creek, in Montana, one of the richest sources of dinosaur fossils in the world.

65 million years ago, the Age of the Dinosaurs came to an end when a catclysmic event led to mass extinctions. This period of abrupt change in life on earth is known as the K/T Boundary, marking the end of the Cretaceous (K) period and the start of the Tertiary (T) period. The K/T boundary can be clearly seen in sedimentary rocks such as those searched by dinosaur hunters in Montana.

Phil and Tony (complete with anti-snake bite boots) learn about dinosaur fossils from one of the experts.

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