good morning everyone so joe and i have gotten a really early start on the day and we're
actually heading past towards where joe found an incredible set of associated mammoth teeth
yesterday so before we get more into what we're doing today i want to show you guys
what this guy over here managed to find found some shark's teeth it's better than shark's teeth
so we up here landscape dude what's wrong with you bro if jon was here he would have spanked you
right so we got this was showing on the surface and i start digging around here
and i hit this thing and look at that piece right there goes to that and there's bone
all around the edges of it like here's big chunks of bone here's another big chunk of bone
like there might be the majority of a jaw with a couple of teeth right here
so i think we're up where nobody hunts anymore ready to pop this one out
oh no it feels like there's bone on the bottom side of it too
look at the roots on that thing still sticking up
wow that's massive it's a big tooth look at that thing these are joe's first associated
adult colombian mammoth teeth each tooth weighs nearly 20 pounds and besides some natural breaks
were perfect specimens now a quick note before we return to the river florida law allows you
to recover a fossil from the riverbank only if it has already been exposed like this one was
you should never search for fossils by purposely digging in the bank all right now we have
the whole day to try to find something better i think we have a little megalodon tooth
yep that's all just bone there with that little beater meg that's cool we got our
first mammal fossil it's a nice ice age horse tooth i'll go ahead and pick it up
yes perfect one that's always a really good sign not bad for a first start giant
tortoise megalodon horse but we're gonna keep moving on dive blue you need a better slogan
go beyond the surface that's just a wordy way of saying go underwater work on your pr department
but these are good machines they are great yeah they're pretty fun dive blue pay me wawa pay me
i don't know if wah-wah would pay you but give me gas you ain't got no gas son i ain't got no gas
there's a whole lot of turkeys that's a whole lot of gobble gobble i bet he tastes good dude
look at the male look at the male he's just showing where is he at he's behind the tree
oh yeah yeah we boutta crash joe's checking a new bend right over where is he at he's somewhere
over there he just went under water but he's got some mammoth material so we'll
take a look at that looks like there's one more little pocket and then it's all sand
good stuff in there yeah big old chunk of leg bone there's more hard pan going this way under
this log imma check not bad big bones bye joe there are a lot of plecos under there oh yeah
the last hole i was in it was just an army of them up under that there's a bunch of uh not pleco fish
um i saw a big catfish they weren't catfish either like a oval body you mean like turtles fish
i know the difference between a turtle and a fish i might not know my fish from my fish
but i didn't recognize these fish well grab yours they definitely weren't plecos you could show that
one off to the camera at least and then let's find a new spot yeah look at this uh two plates to
mammoth to a big old mammoth it would have been a big mammoth geez and look at these leg bone chunks
these are laying right next to each other oh you got the whole leg bone too just missing the uh
yeah that's actually really cool all right let's go off give me this humerus do this and let's
get going wow so we're on a new spot and you can literally just pick up dugong rib here everywhere
there's a piece of dugong there's a piece of dugong and there's actually an intact miocene layer here
so you can see the rocks that used to be part of the ancient ocean bed so i'm going to suit
up and get underwater in a second and hopefully there's some good stuff in there there's bone
valley colors here that's blue and white oh that's pretty blue and white little small tooth
any megs coming out of this bank or even in right there in the clay that's probably loaded look at
it there's a little tooth right there there's a little tooth sticking out right there and then
there's a little tooth sticking out right oh come on buddy you can do it right there so this stuff
is loaded for sure i'm shaking yeah you're getting hypothermic i'll check this you wait in the boat
yeah i like it i don't get those a ton but maybe i'm going to get lucky in front of me who knows
finally found some dugong rib we're back on the prowl for more of these rocks but it's just
beautiful to be out here right now and this will go straight away up until that huge whip turn so
we got some work to do we're gonna find some more stuff so i saw what i thought looked like bones
from the boat i'm checking to see if they actually were now and they are there's a couple little
spots over here and i'm gonna need to hop in and see what's going on what are you doing
this is absolutely unique incredible fine so i'll get it fanned out but i'm going to
check real quick to see if anything else in here so this is absolutely freaking nutty so
i saw it from the boat and it is definitely a mammoth or mastodon leg it's split in two pieces
but i was just scouting right behind it this little hole right in front of me and i see the
distal end to another leg but it's been crushed by a log so i'll take the camera and show you what
that looks like underwater but maybe there's more here i don't know how much we're going to recover
but even just one leg bone is amazing to find from these extinct giant animals there's nothing
that's that big in north america anymore and that's crazy to think about that in florida
my home that animal was walking around so i'll show you what this looks like but i'm
freaking out a little bit all right the second leg bone is right underneath me
okay so nothing more over there unless it's buried where the leg is but right where that log is
it's on another leg and so that might... that log is on top of another leg, is it whole
i can't tell it's whole the whole back end is intact like very intact
but then i was fanning right in front of it and there's another big bone
there i'm not sure what it's to so i'll have to go with another leg so that's kind of crazy
another big bone the shoulder blade where is it the leg bones right under the log pinch you'll see
it immediately and my shoulder blades right past the log did i ever explain the the captain's share
in the golden age of piracy the crown would take like a fifth and the state of florida might take
these from you because they're associated anyways the captain's share would be the
lion's share of the treasure after the um crown takes its share and who drove - me -whose boat is it
- me - fish i gave you gas, who's holding that what you haven't even paid for the gas get that out my face go look at it
if this is too nice you get murdered it's got a really nice articulating end you'll see it
yeah you see it yeah yep right there so that's the leg bone right there
and then you're gonna see the shoulder blade to your right
right there yep so another big old bone in there at this point joe and i started to recover the
first sections of fossil and determine what shape the bone was in that thing's solid though
wow that might be the scapula actually oh it might be yeah yeah that's the scapula scapula
big bone the first bone that we end up recovering was part of the scapula or shoulder blade
the majority of the scapula was there in two pieces
and we managed to get the second piece out without any issues now this animal would have
been massive the size of this scapula is probably representative of a full adult colombian mammoth
this bone is the largest complete extinct ice age bone i've managed to recover in my time
fossil hunting in florida but we still had more bones to recover all right what we think is the
pelvis is free it's not in one piece we're gonna get it real quick bring it to the bank
and see if there's anything else in here the next bone that we were attempting to recover we suspect
was part of the pelvis now this bone didn't have any of the articulating surfaces unfortunately
but was so wide and heavy we couldn't really think of any other bone on this animal that it
likely would belong to that is a very big boat i found this section of bone by gently prodding in
the sand and i suspect that if we have another storm it will uncover much more of this animal
that is a huge huge huge piece of bone
huge and then there's what's left of the leg bone it was not gonna make it so this is the best bone
that came out of this spot this is the scapula and it's the shoulder blade and it is really
intact and super solid it is a crazy bone it's so heavy it's hard to hold honestly so i'd just
stop clicking it together or else you're gonna lose bone along that joint it's
amazing though it's amazing thank you all so much for joining today we try to get out
to go fossil hunting a few times every week and make a video every couple weeks so what is up with
this i've told you guys and i've told you guys give jon money on patreon okay he is still broke
i am definitely still broke still don't have no boat things are getting better right you still
don't have no boat still i'm getting a boat i am getting a boat by the time this videos publish
i'll probably have a boat but anyway as always keep on digging science appreciate y'all he's
still poor he don't even have a boat he's getting a job you won't ever have another youtube video
you won't ever have no more time a job's worse than a kid