Hey everyone, I'm here with WildKyle, and he's got me in a shopping center in
the middle of the city
-and he says that there's fossils here -yup
so, I've been looking on the ground, but all I see is like leaves and litter and
stuff, so
-anyhow, what's the plan? -we're going to go to the creek that's
right over this way, that exposes a layer that has fossilized shark teeth
so, it should be pretty cool, and other marine fossils, too. Possible vertibrae,
stingray grinding plates, and all kinds of other cool marine fossils
-cool, I'm just glad to be outside in shorts -yeah, absolutely
(Rob) okay, this has to be the weirdest rock hunt I've ever been on
Kyle's taking me under a bridge
Yup, here we go
oh yeah (Rob) not a lot of head room in here
not for you!
I can about stand straight up, almost!
(Rob) yeah, I cannot
(Kyle) I don't exactly know if this is like, safe
[splashing]
(Rob) I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, we might survive this
[laughter]
(Kyle) I hope so!
no bats or
rabid animals yet
no rabid humans either
(Rob) yeah, no trolls (Kyle) no trolls
(Rob) well I guess I live under the bridge so technically I'm a troll
(Kyle) yeah, we're trolls (laughs) fossil trolls
(Kyle) oh yes, here we go
alright my friend, looks like
looks like we've made it
we're on the other side, and it's a beautiful jungle over here
(Rob) it is pretty
looks like there's some monsters here
monster raccoons (Kyle) we call them the swamp children here
[laughter]
(Kyle) that's a running joke on my channel (Rob) okay [laughs]
looks like the water gets higher here, huh?
(Kyle) oh yes (Rob) you can see stuff hanging up on
the trees (Kyle) oh yeah, these streams flood high
(Rob) this is so pretty
lot of trash, but
other than that, it's beautiful here
(Kyle) so, this right here
is the myocene-aged clay, this is around probably 5 to 10 million years
old, this is where the shark teeth and other fossils erode out of
this clay and then settle in the creek bed over time
and it's basically the ancient ocean floor that you're looking at, which is
pretty awesome, in my opinion
(Rob) okay, Kyle tells me this is a spot where we might find some shark teeth
(Kyle) I gotta look carefully on the edge here, I like this clay
there ought to be at least a couple teeth sitting right here
I would assume
you just got to train your eyes
so there's a pretty tooth right here
look at that little bull shark tooth, you see it?
right there? (Rob) I do not see it
oh yeah, okay
when you point right to it, I see it real well [laughter]
(Kyle) that one's pretty, look at the color on that
(Rob) that is cool
(Kyle) that's awesome, sweet!
(Rob) thank you
(Kyle) just a stone (Rob) just a rock?
(Kyle) just a stone (Rob) it looked like it had some little
bumps in it, now do you find fossilized coral here?
(Kyle) not much coral here
(Rob) okay, because that's- at home, that's what we find so much of, that that's
what I thought I had there, a little piece of coral
(Kyle) no, very rarely in this area, this creek at least that you'll find coral
which is strange
(Rob) Okay, what you got there Kyle? (Kyle) so this right here is actually
chert rock
so this is the material that native Americans would use to craft their stone
tools
and this is just a fragment that must have been busted off of a bigger rock
when they were working on something
(Rob) and you can tell that just because it's so sharp and broken
(Kyle) yeah, you can tell basically that it was some sort of hand removal of the
stone for sure, rather than natural processes
(Rob) well that's cool (Kyle) pretty cool
(Kyle) There we go, a very very nice
stingray- and I just broke it (Rob) oh!
(Kyle) that was a nice stingray grinding plate
a whole piece of one
that's sad I broke it in half, because it's a nice- nice pretty condition
oh well [laughs]
(Rob) still looks cool (Kyle) still cool
thanks
[water trickling]
(Rob) what you going after? (Kyle) I think I'm seeing our first
chunk of dugong bone - oh, nope, actually
(Rob) branch from the tree? (Kyle) Yep
[laughter]
(Rob) that's a pretty branch though (Kyle) just a soggy branch
(Kyle) that dugong bone we get, which is a relative of the manatee, looks just
like that [laughs] (Rob) alright
we've got an obstacle
this is a beautiful spot with all the jungle around
but
you can tell we're in the city, because you come up to a log jam and all this
trash is here, so Kyle and I brought a couple trash bags with us, we're going
to clean some stuff up
but, hardly make a dent, probably
[water trickling]
(Rob) alright, so Kyle tells me I just scoop up some of the gravel here
and we'll take a little look at it (Kyle) oh nice, that's a pretty good amount
of gravel
alright, there ought to be a tooth in there
I don't see any [laughs] (Rob) there's one of those
(Kyle) ope, stingray grinding plate (Rob) yup
(Kyle) nice
(Rob) woops, went right through the hole
I guess we didn't want that one (Kyle) is that bone maybe right there?
maybe worn bone
no shark teeth
let's try another one (Rob) try again
Kyle's going to scoop some stuff into his little sifter here
this water's cold
(Rob) I know, I've been walking in it
seems to be a school playground at the top of the bank here somewhere
can't see it
big tall banks
(Kyle) that's cold
(Rob) well, what you got? (Kyle) there's some bone in there
that's fossiled bone (Rob) alright
that's a little piece of it
that's a rock
that's more bone right there
so there might be some teeth in here, oop, there's a little really nice light
colored tooth
right there
(Rob) oh yeah
(Kyle) that's pretty (Rob) that is
(Kyle) cool
that's a good sign
(Rob) now are those clay chunks, do these crush? Yup, okay
they look like rocks, but I had to crush one to see
(Kyle) it's satisfying to crush them
turn into this weird mush
[laughter]
hands kind of get numb quick [laughs]
it was 34 degrees last night, I think was the low, so this water is probably
pretty cold
(Rob) that's like (Kyle) oh, look at that tooth
right there
(Rob) nice, yeah, I do see that one (Kyle) oh look, there's three in here
(Rob) oh yeah!
(Kyle) dang
those are pretty
(Rob) cool
(Kyle) really nice color
(Rob) lose that one through the hole if I'm not careful
(Kyle) those are gorgeous
(Rob) yeah, those are really cool
well that was fun
(Kyle) that was a good one (Rob) fun scoop!
(Kyle) alright, get another scoop like that
(Kyle) piece of bone
fossil bone (Rob) oh yeah
(Kyle) whatever that is
(Rob) it's a very bright fossil
[laughter]
(Kyle) there's a little tooth right there
a little busted up, but a lemon shark tooth
(Rob) well, we're heading back and
Kyle's picking up trash, well we both are
yup, we're filling up this bag
gross!
brisk
styrofoam
something [laughs]
(Rob) that was bubble wrap, you didn't even play with it!
[laughter]
(Kyle) I didn't want to play with it, seemed wrong
(Rob) that one's still got a lid on it
yuck!
(Kyle) cheetos
(Rob) well, we have one bag full, and we have another bag with us, so I think we're
going to fill it right here
(Kyle) we're probably literally going to be able to able to fill it
(Rob) oh, definitely, I don't think we'll get it all
well, we got about half of it, but we're full, we only have two trash
bags, so now we get to climb through that and we've done our good deed for
the day
yup!
(Rob) Kyle just picked this up
thinks it might be a concretion?
(Kyle) yeah, it's just a concretion of some sort, just like - it's hardened
kind of like a hardened clay, I think is what it really is, but it's really a rock now
but it's the same sediment as that clay stuff, that marine sediment, there's
phosphate pebbles and stuff in it
(Rob) but not a fossil (Kyle) not a fossil, just
(Rob) wow that's really cool, I thought you were picking up a stick or something
(Kyle) an old weird rock [laughs] (Rob) neat
(Rob) okay, looking for fossils again, we've got our fill of trash
(Kyle) let's see, lots of glass
(Rob) is this urbanite? (Kyle) that's urbanite
a little tooth! (Rob) oh yeah, right away
(Kyle) tiny one
oh, another little tooth right there
little dark-colored one - oh, another tooth right there
pretty bull shark tooth right there (Rob) lucky basket
(Kyle) yeah, that was a good one. I thought you were about to say something else
[laughter]
(Rob) no
(Kyle) Lucky bas- what?
look at that, more of that chert material
glassy sounding
there's a lot of glass in this
there's a little tiny shark tooth right there
(Rob) wow (Kyle) that's a pretty good little basket
(Rob) yeah (Kyle) look at that, there's another one
what in the world! 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
let's fill a scoop right here
lots of gravel
ooh, that's cold
here's a little tooth right there
and there's a little tooth right there
wait, did I drop the other one now?
oh!
here, put them in your hand
there's another tooth
(Rob) this is fun! (Kyle) there's another tooth
[laughs] gosh
we should've just spent the whole day sifting right here
here's another one
I thought I saw another one too
here's a nice stingray grinding plate
(Rob) there's one right here too (Kyle) there's a nice stingray grinding
plate, there's another shark tooth
about to fall through
my gosh
(Rob) practically a mouthful here
(Kyle) yeah, we've got a [laughs] going to put together a whole shark jaw
alright, that's a big scoop right there
(Rob) going to be some winners in here, I can just tell
(Rob) there's a bone (Kyle) oh my gosh, look at that one
(Rob) big bone (Kyle) oh yeah, is that a fossil though?
(Rob) I don't know - no? (Kyle) feels kind of modern
look at that tooth right there (Rob) oh, nice one
(Kyle) that's a nice one, got to show that over here
look at that bull shark tooth
(Rob) we're doing dual videos
(Kyle) yeah, that's probably funny looking
that's a nice one
let's see
here's a little guy
ope, there's another [laughs]
oh, look at that
(Rob) got another?
(Kyle) man, this is where the teeth are at
(Rob) wow
yeah, we've got more here than the whole rest of the stream
(Kyle) good, good way to end it
look at that [laughter]
(Kyle) just solid teeth right here
it just keeps going
there's even like another little one right there
boop
and another stingray grinding plate
and
let's not forget that one
geez, I bet if I looked through there'd probably be a couple more
so, Kyle, what's on your channel, so people can check that out
well, on my channel you can find a bunch of Florida fossil hunting, gem and mineral
hunting, antique bottle hunting, and all kinds of cool stuff, not only from Florida
too, I've done stuff up in Georgia, I've gone up to Michigan with Rob before
yup
and all kinds of cool stuff, so you can find all kinds of cool treasure hunting videos
on my channel
so there'll be a link here to his channel, check that out and we'll see you next time!
(Kyle) kind of weird man, this is symbolic of being born
[laughter]
(Kyle) coming out of the darkness into the world
(Rob) almost there
(Kyle) and voila!