Joe, Kat, and I have made it back to the river today we're gonna look for some
shark teeth and hopefully find Kats first Megalodon tooth - it is a beautiful
day and it is very hot we've got one or two spots we want to make sure we check
today and we're hiking to them right now oh god that's not cooked at all nope not
even a little bit is that deer or is that like Sheep
that's like microwaved that's deer it's deer why would there be sheep out here
there could be so right now we're walking over gravel that belongs to the
Peace River Formation and you can see that it's really
fossiliferous there's bone from the Ice Age all in this and when you're scouting
for locations on rivers like the Peace River you want to find this gravel and
this gravel is where all those shark teeth and bone is going to be it's what
you want to sift up to the river we go good little bee
get your pollen get your pollen go pollinate flowers and keep Florida
healthy we have a lot more walking before we get to that next spot but this
is such a beautiful River in such a cool place to be out looking for some pieces
of prehistory and Megalodon shark teeth and other cool fossils - look what I got we've
been here for five minutes and Joe's already found something pretty
ah it's almost three inches oh my god that is pretty
that's really pretty that's gonna dry off to be so light and gorgeous it's got
a little feeding damage and one serration nick other than that ,Oh two,
right there other than that that's probably my top two Meg teeth see the
back hey that looks pretty it's hard for us to even explain how gorgeous this
Megalodon tooth is, especially from this river that's unheard of this as
good as they get I don't know how we're gonna beat that
the rest of the day do you mind if I see Joe just like Venice Golden Beach colors
wow that is so nice that just came out these last like five minutes let's get
that in the Sun and there it is and absolutely a plus quality gorgeous tooth
from this river it does not get better than that that is going to be top shelf
for the rest of Joe's life yeah I got visitation rights right Joe's gonna skip
it back that's as pretty as they get though look at that blue light blue and
it's gonna dry even lighter that is one of the top five Megalodon teeth in this
area I've ever seen and it's gonna dry out and be even prettier than that the
heck you talking about top five that's the number one number one mine now
mine's better no it's not it's pale white it looks like that junk from
Indonesia there's the other side I could spend the rest of today just looking at
this one tooth I can find a second one let's look for a second one let's get
back to digging that's awesome we're gonna spend just a little bit
longer hunting here and then we've got plenty more day left to find some more
cool Florida fossils so we'll get right to it
there's that Hubbell Megalodon tooth this would have been one of the nicest
Hubble teeth I have ever found if it just kept that corner to the root but
Hubble teeth are the first set of teeth and a Megalodon shark would have had
so this would have been pre-natal or just post-natal so right after the Meg was
born this would have been one of its first teeth and it is nice same
coloration almost as Joe's Meg which I'm gonna go pick up because it's
drying really pretty it's got great like bands of calico
more fossils to be found out here for sure oh look at them gray teeth that
really looks cooked that doesn't look fresh pick it up looks like they're all
gone except for those two in the front
yeah they're all gone except for the two in the front but that's it cooked well
mineralized that's awesome but all the teeth are gone except for those two
really small ones in the front it's missing all the teeth but those really
small ones right in the front at least you've got two it does look like
raccoon though still carnivore it could be something else though it's
hard to tell with some of these extinct species well unless they're extant
fossils its cooked really cooked though that's awesome
good find them white teeth to look at it in situ right there Jon yep so
that's reworked river layer in situ so that's where the river used to flow and
its redeposited all of this phosphate gravel
which has bones and shark teeth
look at that turtle shell way up there and Joe just found that
fossilized deer astragalus just right in that so we're in a good area we're gonna
keep hunting and hopefully find something nice in this spot that's a
block of the Peace River Formation and right there is an extinct puffer fish
mouth plate I'm gonna pop it out or are you gonna keep it in the block? No
it's crumbling yeah that's pretty cool so that's the crushing lower jaw to a
puffer fish a big one look at the size of that thing that would have been a
big puffer mm-hmm that's cool right there this is the crushing plates and this
would have been where the lips were so Joe and I were doing some surface
collecting and we found a pretty interesting representation of extinct
species we've got deer antler softshell turtle right there drop that crocodile
scoot and extinct sloth tooth and then Joe found a section of mammoth tooth so
that would have been a lot bigger actually how many plates you have just
two we would have had between 8 and 15 plates so that would have been a huge
tooth if we were lucky and it was whole but not a bad spot Kats digging way
down here we'll go catch up with her we've caught back up with Kat and
apparently she shed she's found she said she she she said she's found a
mammal tooth I think I see them right there is that a whale ear bone, yeah it's a
whale ear bone second one of today and here are those goodies I was pointing at
early that is not a piece of poop but that is a pretty cool unerrupted horse tooth
- so this horse tooth would not have been erupted yet from the jaw so it has
no wear yet which is really cool you don't actually see them like that often
so good find Kat and a nice cute shark teeth I like these - very good
keep working if you're sifting in the river you want
to be able to find gravel and the best way to do it is to hear it clink under
your shovel so that feels pretty good right here I'm gonna go ahead and take a
test sift right here see if we can't get on some fossils there we go
more fossils there's a cool little Gator tooth and another shark tooth oh look at
that section of urchin very cool
its a rock - looked like a chunk of skull oh that is a really nice horse tooth we're still
finding stuff guys the river has a lot of fossils to offer we
are 10 seconds away from filming our outro and Joe just found a mako tooth see people
don't look for the subtle stuff I saw that just by the root wow that's a nice
Mako dude nice oh look at that silver color on the
back what the heck flip it around that's a nice tooth okay well we're done
hunting today that is awesome huh we've got a bag full of goodies lots of nice
shark teeth and other fossils in there and then we have all of today's trip
makers Joe started off the day with that perfect near three-inch museum-quality
one in a million shark tooth with that Megalodon tooth right there I got me a
cute little pre-natal Hubble Megalodon tooth so this would've been the first
set of shark teeth that the Megalodon would have Joe got an awesome mammal
jaw and that doesn't look that terribly well-cooked
but that thing is super well mineralized solid rock now and then ten seconds ago
Joe found a cool Mako to end the day so we've had a really awesome trip
we've got a long walk out of here but as always guys if you enjoyed it please
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