you should see it through someone else's side
here we go
very nice first whole tooth of the day that's an ice age horse it's a really high quality horse tooth
some people really like these but they're actually pretty common if you're in the right area so
let's hope we can find more than just that today but still it's good to be
able to find some of these extinct ice age animals we're gonna keep on moving down river i'm really
grateful to be out here today it's one of my favorite times of the year we'll probably see
a lot of flowers in bloom and i've already started counting up the gators but this is the happy place
this spot over here looks deep and fun so let's check it out
it was about time for a nice refreshing pepsi anyway
oh just so good we'll keep this though it's cool i love these old bottles a lot there wasn't much in
there but i did manage to find a literal graveyard of dugong bones each one of these pieces is part of
a dugong rib and now you may have heard people say that they're they're not fat they're thick
boned they're big boned well dugongs actually were so their ribs are solid extremely thick
they have no vesicles and that's because these are used as ballast to keep the dugong on the
bottom of the river or ocean because they're so fat and blubberous that if they didn't have these
thick bones they wouldn't be able to stay on the bottom of the rivers and because of these thick
bones there's a preservation bias for them so anywhere you find where a dugong died most likely
their bones are fossilized because they're already so solid to begin with so a lot of different bones
from an individual dugong probably a few different ones but we want to find some ice age material so
we're gonna keep heading down river and see what we can get on we've got what looks like
another deep hole so hopefully somewhere in here there's gonna be something cool for us to find
okay now that is super cool check out this polished cypress driftwood if i could i would
love to take some of that back home with me you could probably make - oop -something big over
there just jumped anyway you could probably make some really cool home decor projects with that
but that's beautiful you never know what you're gonna see out here it's such a beautiful river
that's a better look at it
it's perfect too i put the other one right over here they're definitely from the same animal
and i definitely have a tooth associated to this animal already so joe wasn't able to make it out
today and i just got a text from him and he said if i find one more of these we're over
that's it between us as fossil hunting buddies but i'm still freaking out about how i found this but
the limestone clay trap over here where this came from i've already completely checked that for the
most part i'll give it one more quick glance and then this limestone shelf dips into a deep hole
so i'll check out that deep hole and if there's any more fossils in here i will make sure to
find them and then show them to you if you are oop that's deep hopefully i'll get through that
i got through it if you are enjoying today's adventure please subscribe to the channel i've
got the nemo dive system with me right now and that should help us getting into this deep hole
so right now it's kind of hard to see what's going on below me
as you can see there's a lot of gunk visibility's poor and there are palm trees below me are in my way
so i'm grabbing at gravel and things that could feel like bone and just pulling them up and
getting clay and balls out of the way and this is a good area i'm finding more bones so we should be
unfortunately i'm taking a look at it
and it's full of small cracks which means it's already starting to fall apart the tusks here
aren't like the ones in alaska they don't really get mineralized they don't turn into rock instead
they get leached of minerals and they start to fall apart but it's really cool to see that in situ
in the bottom of the river and if we can recover safely some of this we will but we'll have to go
about this in a in a much different way than we normally do when fossil hunting in florida
so the deep hole by the mastodon palate did lead to a couple of interesting finds
i don't know if you guys could tell but it had a ton of bone mostly dugong again like we talked
about earlier there's a preservation bias to these so when an animal does die that's a dugong
their bones typically fossilize we got a lot of that we did also get another section of mastodon
jaw i think this is actually associated with these two teeth but it's weird how
the river pushed it over there it's really cool though because it's got the symphysis
and it would have had tusks these little front lower jaw tusks right there but we'll see if this
goes with the other stuff i have from this animal but it's a really cool piece regardless and then
an interesting fossil right here that's a deer antler that is well mineralized deer antler and
you don't always find extinct animals of course deer, black bear, raccoons other extant animals
animals we still have around would have been here just like the extinct mastodons and mammoths that
were around in the ice age those animals share the same habitats now it's time to get the gear
packed up we've got a long trip out of here and then i am really excited to get back out here
with joe coming up in part two joe and i return to the river where we discover much more than we
bargained for subscribe to join us next time as we uncover this ancient ice age animal and attempt to
rescue and preserve it before the upcoming flood season and as always keep on digging science