Dr. Dean Lomax

So from the person who's cooking at the barbecue, we all got parasites from that.

Terrible food poisoning, yeah.

So you survived the wilderness, drinking, bathing in the rivers and all this stuff.

But no, the after party where everybody's celebrating.

Somebody clearly didn't cook the food before he got a bit drunk.

Yeah, well, actually, yeah, funnily enough.

So one of the digs in Wyoming was, again, really a remote location, a few hours drive to get to it.

And we were digging up an ancient reptile called a pliosaur.

It looks like it's got basically a giant skull.

It has four big flippers and a short tail.

Kind of everything that was like the T-Rex of the sea type thing.

Mm-hmm.

And when we were digging that, this was in Wyoming in 2008 and nine, we were excavating this site.

We actually originally was found in 1895 by this guy who was blowing it up with dynamite.

And he probably got drunk blowing it up with dynamite.

But when we were excavating the site and I was kind of walking away, just kind of looking for more, I found an old bottle.

I think it was a whiskey bottle, which was literally dated 1895.

And so that was quite rare because it was probably the fact that this group of people who are out there probably getting drunk blowing dynamite

up the site yeah but that's an interesting thing was actually really historically important for that site so we do come across things like that i've never come across stuff like a hoard of coins or anything but yeah that'd be pretty cool if we did because that could help fund the research then donate that to the museum get a get a finder's fee for it do um archaeologists go on the digs with paleontologists just in case or is it you kind of know there's not going to be you

Yeah, good question.