05x04 - A Brand-New Species – Part 1/A Brand-New Species – Part 2

[bunniefuu]

- Hello, folks! It's me, the Conductor!

Today, the kids pick up the fossil

of a brand-new dinosaur

and even get to come up with a new name for it.

So come on along with me on the Dinosaur Train!

All aboard!

- ♪ Dinosaur Train, Dinosaur Train ♪

♪ Once upon a time, there was a mom ♪

♪ Her name was Mrs. Pteranodon ♪

♪ Sitting on her nest, she heard a scratching and said ♪

- Oh, boy, my eggs are hatching!

- ♪ One by one, her kids popped free ♪

♪ Baby Pteranodons, one, two, three ♪

- I'll name you Tiny, Shiny, and Don.

- ♪ But Tiny said ♪ - Wait, there's one more, Mom.

- ♪ The last little baby was a different size ♪

♪ With teeth and a tail and big green eyes ♪

♪ He didn't look anything like the rest ♪

- What am I doing in a Pteranodon nest?

- ♪ But dear old Mrs. Pteranodon said ♪

- Oh, this is your family, and I'm your mom.

You may be different, but we're all creatures.

All dinosaurs have different features.

Come on, Buddy, we'll take a vacation.

I'll get us a ticket at Pteranodon Station.

We'll travel the world in sunshine and rain

and meet all the species on the...

- ♪ Dinosaur Train ♪ - ♪ Dinosaur Train ♪

- ♪ Dinosaur Train ♪ - ♪ Dinosaur Train ♪

- ♪ We're gonna ride... ♪ - ♪ Ride, ride, ride, ride ♪

[train whistle toots]

- ♪ The Dinosaur Train ♪

- [roars]

[cheerful music]

- [sighing] I think it's my favorite thing--

to dig for fossils of creatures that lived a long time ago.

- It's my favorite thing just to dig.

- Ooh, I tell ya, kids.

If I wasn't the conductor of the Dinosaur Train,

which is my dream job,

my next dreamiest job would be Paleontologist,

which of course is a scientist that digs up

and identifies fossils,

which are the remains of ancient life

and not just dinosaur life,

but all kinds of plants and animals.

- Hey, that's what we're doing!

- [coughing]

Whoa!

Hey, this rock looks different.

Is it a fossil?

- Oh, sure looks like one, Buddy.

Say, let's carefully dig around it

and see what we can reveal!

all kids: Yeah!

all kids: Ooh!

- That's a neat specimen!

- So what kind of a creature do you think it is,

Mr. Conductor?

- Well, we can tell from its long back legs and long tail

that it's a theropod,

probably a kind of early raptor that ran on two legs.

- Cool! - Mm-hmm.

And look at these pointy teeth!

Clearly this theropod ate meat, probably small animals.

all kids: Whoa!

- And look at these large nasal cavities.

It looks like other theropods,

which we know had a great sense of smell.

Buddy and Tiny: Because of the Theropod Cheer!

♪ One, big legs with three-toed feet! ♪

♪ Two, lots of teeth for eating meat! ♪

♪ Three, a long tail for balancing well ♪

♪ And four, theropods have a great sense of smell ♪

- [chuckling] You know, as an amateur Paleontologist,

I've made quite a study of theropod fossils.

And yet I've not seen one

that had quite this combination of features:

long legs, long tail, and look at the size of that long snout!

Huh! Never seen that before.

- Wow. Do you mean this could be a brand-new discovery,

Mr. Conductor?

Shiny, Tiny, and Don: ♪ Dun, dun, dun ♪

- Well, I certainly hope so,

and these rocks look like they're from

the Early Jurassic.

I think we've found a new species!

[cheering]

- What do we do now? - [squawking]

We go tell everybody. This is really big news.

kids: Yeah! - Actually...

there's only one thing to do.

Take this wonderful fossil to Troodon Town,

to the Academy!

- Uh, the--the-what-emy?

Buddy, Tiny, and Shiny: The Academy! Troodon Academy.

- Oh, uh, I remember.

- Yep, the expert Paleontologists

at the Troodon Academy will be able to tell us

if this is a brand-new discovery or not!

- I have a hypothesis, that this is a brand-new discovery!

[cheering]

[whistle blows] - [ahem]

First, Junior Paleontologists,

we have to carefully wrap this fossil

so we can very carefully carry it to the Dinosaur Train.

all kids: Yeah!

[upbeat music]

- Well, hello, Laura!

[chuckles] Would you mind sharing your space

with our fossil discovery?

- I would be delighted to share my space with your fossil.

- [giggling] Good.

All aboard for Troodon Town!

[train horn blows]

- Wow, Mr. Conductor,

not only do you already have this amazing job

running the Dinosaur Train--

- Yeah, well, it is a wonderful job,

and yes--[chuckles], I'm pretty much in charge.

- But you also know just as much as a real paleontologist.

- Oh, no, kids, please,

I'm just an amateur paleontologist

and yet, this amateur paleontologist

has always had a dream

of making a brand-new dinosaur discovery.

- It's my dream too! - Oh, boy,

to discover a new species and then--

Oh, gosh, dare I say it?

To get the chance to name it!

- You know what? Maybe you will, Mr. Conductor.

Maybe you will.

♪ ♪

[brakes screeching]

- Whoa, whoa, whoa, yeah, that's it, easy now, kids.

Ooh, don't bobble it. We're almost there.

- Whoops. - [gasping]

- It's okay! Thank goodness. - Oh, sorry.

- Excuse me! Careful! Coming through!

[triumphant music]

- Welcome, friends.

We've heard about your new fossil discovery

and can't wait to examine it.

- And see if it's a brand-new, undiscovered species?

- Exactly, Buddy.

We'll compare it to every theropod fossil we know

and see if it's the only one of its kind ever discovered!

It's quite a big deal.

- Wow, cool!

- Well, what are we waiting for?

Let's get to work!

[kids clamoring]

[energetic music]

♪ ♪

[kids clamoring]

[marker squeaking]

- Mr. Conductor,

your fossil does indeed appear to be a brand-new discovery!

- [gasps]

- An Early Jurassic theropod dinosaur

that has not yet been classified or named!

- [moaning]

- It hasn't even been named?

[kids cheering]

- And as the discoverer, you get to name the species.

- You get to name it! Whoo!

- Well, as thrilled as I am,

and as much as I'd like to name this discovery,

I--I must tell you that it was Buddy who actually found it,

so Buddy should name it!

- Well, everybody helped, actually.

- Oh, I dug the most holes!

- But the Conductor was the most help of all.

He's the one who took us digging for fossils

in the first place!

Why don't you name our discovery, Mr. Conductor?

- Well, thanks, Buddy, my buddy.

We can give it an official name later,

but for now, let's call it Buddysaurus.

all kids: Buddysaurus, Buddysaurus!

- [giggling] Okay. What happens next?

- The next step is for you and the Conductor

to give a presentation of your Buddysaurus discovery

to the assembled scientists from all over the Cretaceous.

- Wait, all the scientists?

- Yes, all of them! I'll go and let everyone know.

- Uh, Mom, can we take a walk and get some fresh air?

- Are you okay, Buddy?

Buddy? - Huh?

Oh, sorry, Mom.

I was thinking so hard, I didn't even hear you.

- What are you thinking about?

- How am I ever going to stand there

in front of all those scientists, and experts, and--

- And tell them about your discovery?

- Tell them anything about dinosaurs!

They're so smart, and they know everything

and I'm just a kid. What do I know?

- Well, Buddy, as Conductor on the Dinosaur Train,

I've spoken to lots of groups before!

I'm kind of an authority about everything on the train.

In fact, you could even call me a bit of a know-it-all.

- [giggling] Well, you do know a lot.

- You see, that's my point, Buddy.

I can give you some tips about making the presentation.

I bet your brother and sisters would be glad to help you too.

- [squawking] Of course we will!

- La-la-loo! - Yeah!

Let's make this the best brand-new species,

amazing fossil discovery presentation ever!

You've got this, Buddy!

- Okay, now, how can we tell it's a theropod?

- From its three-toed feet and hollow leg bones.

- Good, and what about the teeth?

- They're sharp and serrated. - What's serrated?

- Well, Don, take a look.

- Wow, look, this tooth has teeth.

- This theropod ate meant, probably small animals.

- Very good! Now, what can you tell me about its skull?

- Hmm, never seen a nasal cavity like this before.

It looks like it had a great sense of smell!

- How can we tell?

- Well, 'cause most theropods have a great sense of smell!

- Wonderful. You're doing very well!

- [giggling]

- Wow, Buddy. It's almost like a song!

- [squawks] I love that idea. Let's make it a song!

- Oh no, no, no! [record scratch]

Now, let's not get ahead of ourselves here, kids.

[chuckles]

Let's just concentrate on

getting through the presentation.

It's tonight!

♪ ♪

[crowd clamoring]

- This is so exciting!

- Oh! My goodness. [nervous chuckle]

What a crowd. Well-- [ clears throat]

Buddy, I--I'll go out there and introduce you and the kids,

and then, uh, you come out, okay?

- Okay! Let's do this! Rarr!

♪ ♪

[yelping]

[microphone feedback] Oh, no!

[Conductor stammering]

[squawks]

[chuckling, clears throat]

[stuttering] I wanna--Buddy, would you...

[microphone feedback] Um...

[babbling incoherently] - [gasps]

[cheerful music]

both: ♪ It all started at the Big Dig ♪

♪ One fine day ♪

♪ We kids and the Conductor were digging in the clay ♪

- ♪ When suddenly I tripped on something hard and big ♪

- ♪ We thought it was a fossil ♪

- ♪ So we started to dig ♪

all: ♪ And we found a brand-new species ♪

♪ Dug it up right out of the ground ♪

♪ And we're all so super proud ♪

♪ Of the wondrous thing we found ♪

- [squawks] ♪ We could see ♪

♪ That it's a theropod ♪

♪ Long tail and three-toed feet ♪

- ♪ Its mouth is full of pointy teeth ♪

♪ For catching and eating meat ♪

- ♪ And look at that amazing skull ♪

♪ You know what I can tell? ♪

- ♪ That just like other theropods ♪

♪ It had a super sense of smell? ♪

- Yes! Look at that amazing snout!

all: ♪ We found a brand-new species ♪

♪ A theropod dinosaur ♪

♪ From way, way back ♪

♪ Way back in the Jurassic ♪

♪ Now we want to find out more ♪

- ♪ From back in the Jurassic ♪

both: ♪ It's all just so fantastic ♪

♪ Can't wait to find out more ♪

♪ We found a brand-new species ♪

♪ We can't wait to ♪

♪ Find out

♪ More ♪

- And for now, we're calling it Buddysaurus!

all: [chanting] Buddysaurus! Buddysaurus!

- Well, that song really saved our presentation!

That was some quick thinking.

- And dancing! - Excellent job, everyone!

Now we all want to know more about your Buddysaurus!

- Me too! I wish we could meet a real Buddysaurus.

- Ooh, Buddy, that is a fantastic idea!

What do you say we go back to the Early Jurassic

and actually find a Buddysaurus?

both: Yes!

[cheering]

Let's go!

- Hi there, I'm Dr. Scott the paleontologist.

Have you ever wanted to actually work with fossils?

Well, in some museums, you can.

You can actually prepare the fossils

just like a real paleontologist.

[roaring]

[tool whirring]

[kids clamoring]

- Hi, I'm Sue. I'm a science educator.

We're at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry

in the paleontology lab.

I teach a class here

where kids get to work with real fossils.

We do have dinosaur fossils.

We have a triceratops that is million years old,

and kids get to help clean the rock from the bones

using brushes and dental picks

just like the ones dentists use to clean your teeth.

[rock music]

We also have an air scribe station,

where kids use an air tool

to get hard rock off of shell fossils.

So they're helping us to clean these fossils

using the same tools that we use.

It's great, because kids and adults

get to do hands-on science,

so they're involved in the real work

that paleontologists do.

It takes a long time to clean a fossil,

but in the end, it's worth it.

- This is really fun.

all: We love fossils!

[roaring]

- All right, get outside, get into those museums,

and make your own discoveries!

- Hello, folks, it's me the Conductor!

Today, the kids travel on the Dinosaur Train

to meet the brand-new species they discovered!

So come on along with me on the Dinosaur Train!

All aboard!

[train chugging]

all: ♪ We found a brand-new species ♪

♪ We can't wait to find out ♪

♪ More ♪

- All right, everyone seated in your usual seats?

Excellent!

Now, let's have a quick recap

about our fabulous new fossil discovery!

all: Buddy-saurus! Buddy-saurus!

- Which we are, for now, calling the Buddysaurus.

Eh, now we time travel back to the Early Jurassic

to actually meet one and compare features.

- Mr. Conductor?

Speaking of the Early Jurassic,

where will our train station stop be?

- Hmm. Oh, my gosh!

Since we just discovered the Buddysaurus

when we dug up its fossil, there isn't a station yet!

Nor any Dinosaur Train line

that goes to where this Buddysaurus lives

in the Early Jurassic!

all: Oh no!

- Now what do we do?

- We all really want to see a living version

of our fossil discovery.

- I shall lead all of you to find a living Buddysaurus,

somewhere in the forests of the Early Jurassic!

Uh, we're gonna need a bigger map.

Come on, kids, to the caboose!

[whistle blaring]

Hmm, let's say we ride the train back

to the Early Jurassic to a place we've been before.

Then we'll disembark and go exploring from there

and hope that we discover a living Buddysaurus!

Let's try this one-- Lesothosaurus Lawns Station.

- [squawks] I remember that station!

That's where we met Leslie Lesothosaurus.

- Oh, yeah, that shy little camouflaged dinosaur.

- Camo-what now? - Camouflaged.

It means colored or patterned

so you blend in with your surroundings.

- Then it's off to Lesothosaurus Lawns Station

in the Early Jurassic

to go exploring till we find our Buddysaurus!

- Yay! I wonder how Leslie is doing.

- Ha! We'll find out in a very short time, because--

[dinging] Ooh! Time? Time!

Time Tunnel approaching!

[bell dinging] [whooshing]

[brake screeching]

All right, explorers!

Now we are in the right time period,

the Early Jurassic, and the right place,

I think. I hope.

All right, now let's march into the forest

and search for the Buddysaurus!

Keep this image in mind as we search.

all kids: Got it! - Let's roll!

[upbeat music]

♪ ♪

- Whoo! Wow, I'm bushed.

I'll just lean on this bush.

- Hi, Tiny. - Aah!

Oh! Is--is that you, Leslie?

- Yes, i-it's me.

- Look, it's Leslie Lesothosaurus!

- [squawking] You look just like that bush!

- Ah, camouflage!

- Hi. all: Hi, Leslie!

- Oops. Sorry to scare you.

- It--it's okay.

I-I'm kind of shy around other creatures!

That's why I like to hide.

Um, what are you all doing here?

- We're out searching for a theropod dinosaur

that looks like this.

We named it Buddysaurus. Have you seen one?

- N--nope. I--I've never seen one that looks like that.

Good luck, though!

♪ ♪

- [sighing]

- Um, excuse me. Have you seen this dinosaur?

[bug chirping]

She says no, not one that looks like that.

- [squawking] We've been hiking for hours.

What if we never find the Buddysaurus?

I wonder if it even exists.

- Well, we know that the fossil exists,

so therefore the Buddysaurus must be real!

- But what if it's different-looking

from how all the paleontologists

imagined it would look, and we don't even recognize it?

- Wow, Shiny. That's a good hypothesis.

- Hmm. What a lovely, ferny dell.

- [squawk] A dell? Cool.

Maybe the Buddysaurus lives here!

- I agree, Miss Tiny!

This dell would be a perfect place to build

a new Jurassic train station!

If only we could find our Buddysaurus here.

- Cool-looking dinosaur.

- Yes, it is, isn't it? Heh.

all: Huh? - [yelling] Who are you?

- I'm Drew.

- Is it the Buddysaurus?

- It's the right shape and size.

- Maybe the paleontologists just couldn't guess

the right color and pattern of his skin.

- Makes sense. With fossils,

they have to guess at the colors.

- [whispering] Just like I said!

This one's all bright and colorful!

- [whispering] Yeah, why are we all whispering?

- [squawking] Hi, sorry!

We're the Pteranodon family,

and this is the Conductor of the Dinosaur Train!

I'm Tiny, and this is my brothers and sister,

Shiny, Don, and Buddy!

all: Hi!

- My name is Buddy Tyrannosaurus.

We're theropods, and we grow up to be huge!

- Whoa. Cool! I'm a theropod too,

but I'm full-grown at feet long from head to tail.

- Well, we have amazing news, Drew:

we came on the Dinosaur Train from the future

in the Cretaceous Time Period to find you!

- Me? - Yes! And we've already got

a nickname for you-- Buddysaurus!

- Buddysaurus, huh? That's a cool nickname.

Yeah, but my family goes by the name of Dracoraptor.

- Dracoraptor, eh? Heh. Well, that makes sense.

You're definitely some kind of raptor.

- Where does the Draco part of your name come from?

- Well, Draco means dragon.

I like to think of myself as a kind of dragon.

all: Dragon? - What's that?

- A dragon is an imaginary creature,

and I just think they're cool.

- Dracoraptor! Dragonraptor! Huh! I love it.

- [squawks] And we can call this place Dracoraptor Dell!

- Drew Dracoraptor, from Dracoraptor Dell!

I love it!

But you can call me Buddysaurus if you want to.

- So, you eat meat, right?

- Oh yeah, meat is the best.

- [squawks] Yup. With that long tail,

two big legs with three-toed feet,

and all those sharp teeth for eating meat,

he's a theropod, all right!

- Want to learn our Theropod Cheer?

- Sure! Go ahead.

Buddy and Tiny: ♪ One, big legs with three-toed feet ♪

♪ Two, lots of teeth for eating meat! ♪

♪ Three, a long tail for balancing well ♪

♪ And four, theropods have a great sense of smell ♪

- What's that? Smell, yeah!

Oh, wow. I love it! [chuckling]

I always knew I was a theropod,

but I didn't know there was a Theropod Cheer!

Oh, wow. I'm gonna have to practice some more.

- There's even a Theropod Club!

You can join it if you like.

- And maybe even come to a meeting some time!

- This is all amazing.

How did you come to find me here

in the swamps of Dracoraptor Dell,

in the Early Jurassic?

- Well, it's a long story, Drew.

See, way in the future, in the Cretaceous Time Period,

we found what turned out to be a Dracoraptor fossil!

A new species we'd never found before.

- Wow, that sounds amazing.

So you found a Dracoraptor fossil?

Ha. Cool! But how do you know it's my species?

- You know, I have an idea!

We have an X-ray machine in the caboose

of the Dinosaur Train.

We can make an X-ray of Drew,

which takes a picture of your bones,

and compare it to our fossil discovery.

- I get to see what my bones look like? Ha! Let's go!

all: To the Dinosaur Train!

[whistle blaring]

- Wow! The Dinosaur Train, huh?

- This is Mr. Stygimoloch and Mr. Corythosaurus.

- Hi. Drew Dracoraptor, the dragonraptor.

Nice to meet you.

- Laura Giganotosaurus, meet Drew Dracoraptor!

- Hello, and welcome, Drew.

How wonderful to finally meet a Dracoraptor.

- Ha! Cool.

[camera shutter clicking]

- Wow! Look at my bones! That is so cool!

- It sure is!

- Well, huh, what do you know. They match!

[chuckling] Science!

- Well, I'm convinced--

our fossil discovery is definitely a Dracoraptor!

[all cheering]

All right then, next stop, Troodon Town,

where Drew can meet all the paleontologists!

- Troodon Town, huh?

This day just keeps getting better and better.

- Time Tunnel! Time Tunnel approaching!

- Uh, wait, what's a Time Tunnel?

[bell dinging] [whooshing]

Whoa!

Whoa!

[bell dinging] [whistle blaring]

- Dinosaurs, Pterosaurs, and other assorted creatures,

please welcome our new dinosaur discovery,

sometimes known as Buddysaurus,

[inhaling deeply] Drew Dracoraptor!

[all cheering]

- Whoa! [crowd gasps]

Wow, right on the snout. Wow, someone should move that.

People keep tripping on it! [laughs]

[tape ripping]

Yeah! It's me, the new discovery,

Drew Dracoraptor, the dragonraptor.

all: ♪ We found a brand-new species! ♪

♪ A theropod dinosaur ♪

♪ From way, way back, way back in the Jurassic ♪

♪ Now we want to find out more ♪

- ♪ From back in the Jurassic ♪

all: ♪ It's all just so fantastic ♪

♪ Can't wait to find out more ♪

all: ♪ We found a brand-new species ♪

♪ We can't wait to find out

♪ More ♪

- Mystery solved. Now you know I'm a Dracoraptor!

all: Dracoraptor! Dracoraptor!

[cheers and applause]

♪ ♪

- Hi there. I'm Dr. Scott the paleontologist,

and we're here in the paleontology lab

at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

Once fossils come out of the field,

they comes to places like this where folks like Eshelle,

who are volunteers, prepare the fossils.

And she's working on the skull of a ichthyosaur,

a prehistoric marine reptile that swan in the seas

during the Triassic Time Period million years ago.

So this specimen was buried for million years.

It was discovered by paleontologists,

brought back to Los Angeles,

and it will take months to maybe a year or more

to prepare this skull so it can be studied.

And to prepare the fossils,

that means they use a range of tools,

Sometimes air abrasives,

sometimes tools that you might recognize--

a toothbrush, for example.

Or a dental pick,

which you might've seen at the dentist's office.

and it's with this range of tools

that Eshelle is removing the rock,

revealing the fossil,

and once it's fully revealed,

it is given a specimen number.

A card is written up about it

and then it is time to transport the fossil

into the collections,

and it's at that point that the research truly begins.