we're in a coastal Creek in South Carolina today doing some awesome fossil
hunting we've gotta hurry and start finding Megalodon shark teeth and other
fossils because in about 4 hours this place is gonna be up to here in water
but we're really excited to see what we can't find today let's do it
Colton did his first test sift and I think he's already pretty happy with the
spot we're at it's looking pretty good we're looking at the actual Chandler
bridge formation right now and Maddie has found a really nice Angustiden
tooth right there we're hoping it's nice but we don't know if it'll be whole
since we're in South Carolina though in true Black River Fossils fashion - we can say
please be whole please be whole come on Maddie get it get him Maddie please be
whole look at the ancient technology Colton's deciding to use instead of a
you know like a knife or maybe a small shovel
don't break a fingernail what's it look like what's it look like that's a pretty
tooth a little bit of root ding
yeah that's still pretty tooth though not bad for the first tooth you found
today that's awesome just in the wall it's so cool
more teeth fossil maniac that nice vert that's really cool so that's a
porpoise vertebrae dolphin vertebrae you don't only have big sharks out here you've
got their food too nom-nom-nom them a quick tip on how to fossil hunt when
you're looking for decent spots you want to find exposures like this so just
looking on the surface of this gravel bar I can see a tooth right here if we
move over here you can see a tooth right there a tooth there a
tooth here and this tells me that only is this spot really fossiliferous but it
is really rich as well so there's probably a lot of fossils in here and I
can't wait to find some more shark teeth
Already! - Maddy's called me over because apparently she's found the namesake to
this Creek we call this thresher Creek and that is an extinct thresher shark
their really rare in most places because thereshers are a pelagic shark open
ocean so you don't really find them in coastal areas so this is thresher Creek
so I've got most of my threshers and now Maddie has one too Maddie says she sees
something in there no way that's look at that look at that literally in the water shamer though
too bad that guy had to eat look at the cusps though he still has the cuspid
yeah busted up the tooth why'd you have to go and break it
oh my God! I can't believe how close that was to being, I mean look - there's no emotion
in your voice anymore that would've been a trophy meg dude this area happens to be
one of my favorite shark tooth hunting locations the teeth here are much older
than the ones we find in Florida they're from Oligocene and belong to the Chandler
bridge formation so this is actually the formation that these fossils are eroding
from In situ in this wall so the creek rises up and down every day and erodes
these awesome fossils for us to find I feel like every 10 seconds these guys
are calling me over for another shark tooth that's it I see that tip come on
be whole Oh nope hey Mako good ol Mako shark tooth got me excited
that's a tooth - heck yeah - nice another angustidens
who's that who's that hiding there which shark tooth this time looks like she's
breaking them all apart huh yeah so as the water recedes you can see more teeth
chunks popping out of the formation that's cool oh that's a pretty tooth
posterior Angustiden tooth grandfather to the Megalodon shark and an overall
awesome fossil to find here got nice little cusps they're so cute there - Awesome tooth, Colton.
thank you another tooth uncovered by the lowering
tide nice sand tiger sweet anytime Maddie tells me to come over and
look I listen come on pick it up and tell me its whole - it's really polished I mean
great shape there's a stingray dermal denticle that is wild great shark teeth
ancestor to Megalodon hey that's a really nice Great White rotate it around
that's a fossil-hunting first for me this is a Paratodus benedini - it's
really beat up but it's a giant extinct thresher shark so these guys would have
been bigger than great whites but they were deep ocean threshers its my first tooth
from them they're super rare and I just got to find a nice whole one - good luck
well then - two nice Makos back-to-back at the same spot I'm happy with that
that's a lot of gravioli and Colton strikes again still finding
broken ones though really beautifully creek polished too bad Maddie's still
pulling up awesome teeth it's the first sand tiger from the day we would call
it a goblin shark but I think Maddie has the designation of goblin shark tooth
goblin - we're walking the edge of this gravel as it's getting to low creek and I spot
something I am very used to finding in Florida and extinct Ice Age horse tooth
that thing is nice it should have good colors when it cleans up oh yeah look at
the enamel on it that's gonna be a pretty horse tooth Ice Age fossils with
all these shark teeth really cool answering the call of Maddie once more
she's got a big old mako shark tooth right there in the blade so I say Mako
but it's actually not a mako it's still a white shark but this is the shark that
evolved into the great white shark it's a Cosmopolitodus hastalis
really awesome tooth Oh why'd you have to ding it - I know you didn't it but
it's a nice tooth yeah that things big
still finding lots of teeth out here Colton just dug up these to cool Angies
and they highlight something really interesting so this one it's got
gorgeous color and nearly pristine serrations and this comes from the
bottom of this formation that we're digging in so there is a clay right
there and this is the unworked section of the Chandler bridge that we're digging
in right now so the rest of this up top has all been reworked so over the course
of millions of years as the ocean comes up and goes down during
glacial and interglacial periods these teeth have been worn down eroded
redeposited and that's why you can find Megalodon teeth and other Miocene / Pliocene
shark teeth mixed in with these Angies it's all been redeposited over millions
of years but the very base you can find high-quality Angies that never got
eroded out of that original Oligocene formation, that's cool just pulling
fossils straight from the formation angie stingray tooth - fossils - no way
what's this man doing - quality stuff I'm over here taking a pee break and I saw a
Meg in about six inches of water - Maddie's gonna pick it up for me while I film
this is it hole - noooooo - why why why why maddie you broke it before I could pick it up
what is wrong with you thought I had a Meg I honestly thought I had a Meg, I hate this.
Looks to be a mako, do you see it?
I have answered the call of Maddie and I see what looks like a Mako oh that's a
nice one
yeah I'm spending all my time walking back to these guys that's another pretty
tooth lots of Megalodon grandpoppies died here that's a shamer great white -
more sand tiger shark teeth seems Colton's pulled old Meg on a shovel
trick again it's so polished that's cute look I do it again and again well you
can tell it's a meg from the classic heart shape but doesn't really have too
many defining features really pretty polished Meg you got tumbled around for
quite a few million years huh that's a really nice example of a trace fossil so
this is a cast of a gastropod so there's no material no shell left from this
animal but this guy would have gotten buried mud would have filled the empty
cavity in the shell then solidified and then the calcite shell would have
dissolved leaving this - making it a trace fossil there's no hard or soft body
parts left of the original animal first day of fossil hunting Colton threw out
his back looking for angies that would have been a nice tooth
ah that is a pretty Angustiden oh its so cute too - wash you off - I like you good tooth
saying oh I'm tired I don't want to get stuck here in high tide and yet he's
going and finding more Megs still - you found all the big broken Megs didn't you
I know - I don't know what's going on - well he wasn't done hashtag not a fossil
that's still really cool Modern deer Jaw you got the Deer Jaw
right
you know in a couple hours - we did manage to find just a few shark teeth
you know nothing really to be proud of at all they had worked a little bit
harder I think we could have found some more teeth but on a serious note we got
plenty of these big Megs well by we I mean mainly Colton was digging up the
Megs he was getting a little bit greedy over here - not really - but we have plenty
of awesome stuff we've got cool Angustidens shark teeth Maddie found a lot of
really nice ones from that and the Angustidens used to be the ancestor so they
are much older than these Megalodon shark teeth and that shark actually
evolved over time into it we've also got some really rare teeth that only collect
in these kind of areas - threshers so this was a deep-sea location at one point
which is hard to believe now because it's a beautiful shallow creek but this
used to be 40 50 feet under water and sharks were swimming here which is
mind-boggling to think about so many nice teeth beautiful day in a cool place
it's crazy to think how much history's around us I forgot peep the Megalodon
facts shirt nice it's a nice angie blade but we're super excited to have been
here the tides about to start coming out so we're gonna head home we've got more
spots to check out today thanks so much for joining if you enjoyed the video
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