 Hello and welcome to a very special video on their channel because not only do we have dinosaurs because we always have dinosaurs on the channel but we have been invited to the Toyahashi Natural History Museum after hours so we basically get a private tour of this amazing space. This whole park here is filled with loads of life-size dinosaurs in loads of Bonnie colours. Some of them looking very angry so I'll not stay here too long. And I don't know what I'm saying now. I got carried away. Actually what makes this even more special is that there is a Pokemon exhibit on at the moment. Prehistoric fossilised Pokemon which are basically just dinosaurs. So why don't you join me on this amazing adventure? See what this whole place has to offer. Let's go. So here we are inside. Oh wow okay so we've got like giant owl. These are iron. Wow. Iron dinos. Dynonicus. You can put your head inside. You can put your head inside. This is what the T-Rex is. More important this is what you see just before you die I think. I don't think this is what the T-Rex is. Look at this. You need the music. T-Rex. That is ginormous. Like a dream come true. Oh if only you knew we're just getting started. That would be interesting to have like a natural sort of depiction of a T-Rex and then Jurassic Park's recreation. Because the one in Jurassic Park would be like I don't know like twice as big. Something like that ridiculous. The details are gorgeous and then of course next to it you have the triceratops and when one would get bigger the other one would also respond and you kind of see that in evolution. So as you had nano-tyranus or I don't even know if that's a real dinosaur anymore I'm sure there's going to be people that would be like that's not real anymore. It's me. There's so many things to look at when we start here. I can't. We have an Edmontosaurus. I'll always remember it being what was it in J-Pog. It was T-Rex's favourite food. Found fossils of Edmontosaurus with actual teeth marks from T-Rex embedded in them showing that there was actually like a predator-prey relationship there. The mummy of Edmontosaurus. This one looks interesting because you got I think that's like a Lambeosaurus Caritasaurus Parasaurolophus and then possibly a mutaburraaurus. It is an Edmontosaurus. But I got the other ones right. We'll get points. Masa, I need you to translate. This was found in 1910 in Wyoming. What it says I don't know. I don't understand that. Perfect. The actual mummy is in Zankenburg in Germany. Be right back we're gonna flash to Germany. That would be an expensive video. And to accompany all of those fossils, they also had a mock-up of what a dinosaur dig site would look like. But really we had just scratched the surface of what this museum had to offer. Wow. Oh, okay. Here we go. It is so weird not having to like shuffle around people and just be like, where'd you start? Oh, look at that. You can definitely tell like loads of thought has went into this museum putting the shadows of the skeleton. They're like, you know, the Jurassic Park silhouette up there. There's a polka one. It's like erudactyl. Paleobotany here. You're like fossilized plants. There's one. So then I spent the next half an hour. Then I spent the next half hour. James, I'm doing it professionally. Okay, do it. And then I spent the next half hour looking at all the goodies this shop had to offer. This is not a shop to museum. And then. I love this as well. Like Ramparencus and like feathered birds as well or like dinosaurs. It's not a goose. It's like an Archaeopteryx. That's where they all ended up. Happily ever after. Dead. It's caputo. It's caputo. Whitney's now shooing me along because we're only allowed so long in here. It's already been 30 minutes. We're in a timer in the top corner. You know, like Mario runs out of time. Oh, that's a little overraptor. He likes eggs. Close-up of that. That's why we're here. It's beautiful. You need to get it from the front hole. That's the thumbnail. That's the look. Now there it is. After circling it and walking underneath it, we finally have it. It is a Yuan Maosaurus. Oh, that's interesting. I've never heard of that one before. Oh wow. They have a whole studio. Look at that. By showing like how big like an actual leg would be. Oh, that's a Brachiosaurus leg. The Zifactinus lived in what they called Hell's Aquarium. Play soundtrack. There we go. Now we're approaching the time before the dinosaurs actually. But then we head over to like the metrodon. Oh wow. Yes. Why wasn't that in Dominion? Now that's terrifying. Give the parents nightmares. Unfortunately, I couldn't film everything that the museum had to offer because we were under time constraints and all that. They also had a thrilled shark on display. Normally these sharks live at the very depths of the ocean. I would have preferred to have seen it alive but I'm not going down in a submarine anytime soon. It will be. There we go. There we go. Ready? There it is. Got a little grime coming out of the bin. Now we can feed grime. Here you go. Yum, yum, yum, yum. Yes. Never remember what that one is. Crane on us? I don't know. We'll find out when we go inside. Gun Aridacta with a Pikachu. Ammonite being the inspiration for Ammonite. They took place of liberties with that one. Big googly eyes. Omostar. Oh, it's still called Omostar. In Japanese as well. First off, I just want to apologize for the flickering you can see here. I swear in the preview finder, it didn't show any of this. But hey ho. Here we are. The Pokemon exhibit was a whole lot bigger than I was expecting. They had almost all of the fossil Pokemon in either a fossil form, skeletal form, or even they're in game form. I can't tell you how cool it was to see all these Pokemon in person. Back when I was a kid playing Pokemon Red on my Game Boy, I would have never believed something like this could have existed. And for anyone who's a Pokemon fan like I am, there are little lore Easter eggs in the descriptions here. Like how Ommonite and Tortuga are the ancestors of artillery and war total respectively. Even though the signs in the exhibit itself were only in Japanese, they had a QR code you could scan that let you see them in English. Yeah, some of the pieces had really bad flickering, so I'll have to just show you them in still image form. You of course still have to see them. Look at the effort that went into these. What was amazing to see was the level of detail that went into not only the fossil pieces themselves, but also the information boards. It was great seeing the artists take on dinosaurs. One, two, three, four. Oh, okay. Fight. And it was at this point I was told that one of the two people that shaperoning us round the museum was the paleontologist that appears on the Pokemon illustration boards, Ichidasan. Oh, really? That's you. So is he a paleontologist? Yes. Oh really? Now that I knew Ichidasan was a paleontologist, I of course couldn't waste this opportunity. So with only one camera and one microphone, I asked Ichidasan if he would agree to an interview. And luckily, he said yes. I just wish I'd brought more cameras and equipment. So we are with the paleontologist that is actually featured on the Pokemon billboards that you've seen everywhere. Would you like to introduce yourself and what your name is and what you do here? So my name is Masahiro Ichida. So I'm a curator of this Toyohashi Museum of Natural History. What is it that you specialize in? The thing I like the most is how to make a living fossil. That's what I'm most interested in. What I find most interesting is how to make a living fossil. And then... I'll explain. How to make a living fossil. To find out the two points, I'm researching how to make a living fossil. That's quite complicated. It's fun. So I'm kind of curious, because you're an actual paleontologist. I wasn't expecting to see a real scientist when it's a Pokemon museum. So how did you get involved in this whole museum that we have going on right here? You make it sound so easy. It sounds so easy. Because I love fossils, too. When I was a kid, I loved dinosaurs. But as a kid, you say, I want to be a paleontologist when I grow up. And for that to become what you do is just amazing. Congratulations on all that. I've went dig sites all around the world. What was your most interesting dig site that you went to? The most fun? I usually do fieldwork by myself. When I'm doing it by myself, I like to find my favorite fossil. I'm the happiest when I find a fossil in a mountain. They're summoned to you. They're drawn to you. They're drawn to you. That's right. I think even when you're driving, you can tell that a fossil is likely to be there. Even when he's driving. Really? That's a gift. That's a talent. That's a talent. That's a talent. If you look at the stone's surface, it looks like a fossil. Right. So you can tell by the look of the rock. It's hard to explain. If you had advice to give to someone who wants to become a paleontologist, what would you tell them? It's good to see the exhibition but it's also good to go and look for it. I think it's good. The first time I took a fossil on a family trip was in the beginning. The fossil I took at the beginning was a normal one, so I've been doing it all the time. I think it's good to go outside first. I can't forget the feeling I had when I took it. What's the biggest distance? Distance? It's hard to explain. It's hard to explain. It's hard to explain, but what I like the most is what I like the most is Aeoraptor. Aeoraptor? It's a very primitive dinosaur. It's a dinosaur from the time when the dinosaur was still weak. So I like it. It started from there. That's a very good answer. Do you still have your first fossil you got when you found it as a kid? I don't have it, but I think my parents and my mother have it at home. I found the first fossil and the same kind of fossil in a completely different area. I couldn't find it from there. That's why I went to the fossil. How is it like working with the Pokémon company for the six of us? That's right. I've seen a lot of individual scientists from the paleontologists and the Pokémon, the fossil Pokémon, are amazing. The Pokémon... Normally, in the pumpkin field or in the seawall, the seawall is usually like this. If it's a Special Exhibition, there's no exhibition. It's a minor fossil. But if you make an exhibition with Pokémon, you'll be able to see a minor fossil. It's a minor fossil, but it's very important. That's amazing. I think it's amazing that it's not a regular fossil. I never thought of that. That's good. That's brilliant. Do you have a favourite Pokémon then? Favourite Pokémon? In English name. Anomalacharis? Yes. That one. Anorith, I think that one is. When this exhibition is over, you're taking that one home then. After that, we got a surprise. We're now going into the living, working... museum. Let's see the master at work. I've only ever seen this in Jurassic Park with Billy gone rough, smooth. This is actually how it works. Achitasan was kind enough to do a little bit of excavation in front of us, as well as talking us through the different tools he uses to get the fossils out of the rock. He showed us some of the previous ammonites he had been working on, spanning all sorts of shapes and sizes. How do you know which bits to cut? If it's the fossil and which bits to rock. Yeah, I bet. Oh, really? Wow, that's a big ammonite. That's a lot of work. How long would it take you to excavate all of that, would you say? Oh, wow, okay, okay. You have to be quite delicate, I assume, because you don't want to break it. Oh, this one? Okay. Only. This is Cretaceous. Oh, Cretaceous, period. Wow, okay, okay. It was 68 million years ago-ish. 68 million years ago or so, it could be further. But around about 65 million years ago was my Cretaceous period, and the tracic goes all the way back to 200 million years ago. So do you know when ammonites were at their biggest? Oh, wow. Oh, wow. I feel like we need to let you get back to work, then, if we... Open you up, yeah. And now to check out the best part of any museum, the gift shop. So come with me, because we've got some exclusive Pokemon merchandise. We have a Pikachu. It's dressed very much similar to kind of what Alan Grant wears in Jurassic Park with the red bandana. And I think I might need to take this with me. But then, not only have you got that, you've got loads of other sort of Pokemon. Oh, I was thinking if they got all the fossil Pokemon, but you've got Kecklion, Donfan, Fampy, Tropius. That's the one you were thinking was a Dancer. It kind of is. Technically, that is a fossil new because there was like the Pokemon movie where it had a fossil. You've got Giraffe Rig, Omenite there because you've got to have an Omenite. I might have to get that. That looks really cool. You have to just come here just to friggin' buy the merchandise. Look at that. Brilliant. I never used to rate the Karatomy, because I was like, oh, they're all like bits and stuff, but actually after, you know, having to buy some because it's all the head over here, I was pleasantly surprised. And I'm now converted to Karatomy fan. That's so cool. The detail on him. That's awesome. Oh, he's so cute. Okay, we're going to have to buy a lot. Okay. Oh, we come I don't think we can come because no one's working. And you've got this is a brilliant idea. Polo for the skeleton. And that looks so good. And here you go. It's his favorite Anirith, I think it is. And if you've enjoyed that video, but I can until next time. I'll see you cuties later. Oh, buh-bye. There's loads of things to see here in the the Toyahashi natural the Toyahashi city. Hello, everyone, and welcome to a special video where today we're in to... We're doing all the science is what we're doing.