Time Team presenters Robinson and Harding head to the Rocky Mountains and the Montana Badlands to spend time with the people who dig up dinosaurs for a living. The special follows both museum crews and private fossil hunters, comparing their excavation methods to the careful stratigraphy and recording techniques familiar from archaeology. They join a museum dig working through the bones of several tyrannosauroids, and visit the tourist operations that fossil hunting has built up around towns in dinosaur country, from paid dig experiences to commercial fossil sales. The trip culminates in the Badlands with paleontologist Jack Horner, where the team helps extract the remains of a tyrannosaurus from the rock. Along the way the film raises the friction between science and commerce in fossil hunting, showing how the same skeleton can be a museum specimen or a six-figure sale depending on who finds it first. Hands-on digging footage and interviews with working hunters carry the hour rather than narration alone.