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one of the reasons why i love this location is because of the visibility it's like six or seven
feet today we're already finding bone today might be a really good day we gotta cover some ground
and find some more fossils so this is the first bend we've checked today and it has a really
good bone density we just found something really cool this is my first uh capybara
molar so this is the largest rodent that still exists it's uh called the capybara
they were a native here in florida and that's a single tooth from these huge animals so that's
a really good sign we got a lot of fossil bone as well including this ankle bone and the rest
of this is mainly just tortoise shell and then some shark teeth from the underlying Miocene early
Miocene sediment so so you're telling me them capybaras retired to south america yeah these capybaras
retired to south america but i want to get back in there and i cannot wait to keep finding some stuff
wow that is a nice sloth
a big old animal died here look at that ball joint that thing is huge this is pretty cool yeah big
old ball joint let's go put it with the rest of the stuff that we found in the past couple bends
we've been diving for maybe an hour or two - FOUR - four hours? we've been out here for four
hours dude wow yeah we've got some really awesome stuff we're gonna have lunch and we're gonna keep
moving on we did manage to find a lot of stuff we've got giant ground sloth tapir eagle extinct
horse giant tortoise and all of this bone that we just recovered and even though we don't know
exactly what species it is because we didn't find any teeth we do know that it's a giant elephant either a
mammoth or a mastodon based off of this honeycomb structure so this is a piece of the skull
and the skull has this honeycomb structure in these large animals to reduce weight but keep
the structural integrity if this was solid bone instead of these pockets of air a mammoth or
mastodon would not be able to carry its own head it would be way it would weigh way too
much for it to be able to move around but i love spots like this that have such a unique diversity
of species and some rare fossils as well this giant ground sloth tooth is a canine
and you can see the sheer pattern from it chewing hundreds of pounds of food every day and then
we've got this little tiny eagle claw some type of raptor they're incredibly rare and i've only
ever found the third one so i'm really thankful for that we're gonna get moving we've got a lot
more stuff that we can find today and we've got to get back underwater what you find i chilled
on the bank and then i hopped in one spot and i found a chunk of elephant tusk probably mastodon
that's pretty cool it's got the cross hatching it's super cooked clink it against your teeth
no you just want me to lose a tooth well then i'll find it oh that gives you shivers
good stuff and i found this right next to it but the rest of that hole was all sand so if it ever
gets a little bit shallower it'll wash out some teeth probably hopefully hope one would think
you know all right let's get back to hiking we found a new bend in the river to check it's really
interesting the water is a bit higher than what we're used to out here and so different parts of
this river are exposing gravel and bone that we normally wouldn't find so we're going gonna try
to keep finding some stuff we don't got a lot of day left it's also like january so i am done i am
like up on the bank i am cold i am warming up now if you want to freeze your hind end off you can
contact Jon at whatever his phone number is and pay a crap ton of money for the replace me auction
that he's going to be having joe's going to be my dive buddy for a long time still don't you worry
i'm going home i'm getting back underwater i'm going home so i haven't been in this
bend for too long and it's about eight feet deep right here i'm standing on top of a fallen log
but there's some really nice extinct tapir teeth i'm gonna go down get it and show you guys
that's killer so that's an extinct tapir that used to be here in florida uh to Tapiris veroensis most
likely but they're only in south america right now as joe said they've they've retired there
falling upstairs it's a really good tooth though so hopefully you can find some more stuff like
this as i finish this bend i just popped out of this hole it's about nine feet deep and the
first thing i noticed was this really nice horse tooth but we've got a condyle to a mammoth or
mastodon skull so that's really cool we've been finding a lot of skull elements and teeth today
it's just a matter of time it might not be the day it might be the next time we come out
but we'll find either a mammoth or mastodon tooth in this river i'm sure about it but it's a really
cool bone haven't we already found slews of mammoth and mastodon teeth in this river a few of
them but i want a few more don't you i only have like one whole one from this river but then again
i don't try that hard so those last two bends had a ton of peat which is a really good sign
but it was almost entirely giant tortoise we got that horse tooth and that condyle piece
to a mammoth or mastodon skull but we got to keep moving we might find something else today
the only thing we can do is keep trying it is cold though i could not blame joe for getting out
there's a bathtub over in the woods somewhere to our left
somebody taking a redneck bath ah something like that it's not the first one i found out on these
rivers too i found random oooh almost said the name of the river but no seriously i found plenty of
bathtubs randomly out in the middle of the woods near rivers before i don't get it do they float
are they good boats the world may never know 50 bucks or else i tell the name of the river
25 40. all right it was just sand over here but there is some heat and gravel over here i'm hoping
that it opens up as we get further to the bend but it might just be a sandy bend we'll have to see
but it's cold yeah there's probably a gator in there too shut up there wasn't a gator.. so far
but there was a really nice gator tooth so here's hoping there's more fossils in there
all we managed to get from there was that single gator tooth but we're gonna hike and
find something else while we still have a little bit of sun left to play with
i'm just a stuff bringer you're so slow cool area i've been demoted
from fossil hunting buddy to stuff carrier you chose that life i feel a lot better now
good so joe over here is trying to not talk about fossils but that's what we're
out here to do we've got to delete that part yeah i'm not gonna show it that was weird as
hell i'm gonna get underwater over here and see if we can't find something more
look at that chunk of giant tortoise jon just threw up this here uh chunk of tortoise shell
pretty big old solid chunk that's usually a good sign
you can see that's obviously a bit of tortoise but uh he got a lot more tortoise under that log i
guess there's a ton of bone it's opened up and i'm hoping that besides the giant tortoise bone that's
in here there might be something else like another tooth or something but i gotta get back underwater
and see it's getting cold it's getting late but this could be a good spot probably all tortoise
we are starting to get more diversity that's another extinct horse tooth from an
older individual wore down most of the tooth and then i got a little gator tooth next to it
so i'm gonna get back underwater hand these off to joe that's all you keep me for huh just to sit
on the bank and mind your stuff my my fossils joe oh you about said something else stuff stuff this
spot down there is really sketchy though because you see these fallen down palm fronds they're on
the bottom and so you have to like push through them and you have no idea what's there so it's
pretty sketchy to be honest yeah that's kind of like where i put steve on a gator a couple years
ago and yet you still haven't gotten the gator yourself no no i'm good at putting people on them
though all right well that was a lot more shallow though i doubt there's anything in there i hope
what so that yeah that was a gator and there's fossils there so i'm gonna go back underwater
and try not to piss it off and hopefully it'll let me grab those rocks so see what happens we shall see
i'll grab your phone to call the the
helicopter
did you get them yup it let me grab the bones i've got a um mammoth or mastodon toe bone right here
which it looks actually completely whole which is a new position for me i love getting these toe
bones I especially want to composite a foot but that is a complete toe bone and then a huge piece
of giant tortoise so i didn't see the third bone but i'm gonna move forward and get out of his way
and find some more stuff if there's any if not we found a lot of cool stuff today
and i don't mind wrapping it up jon in his infinite know-it-all know-it-all-ness
misidentified something if you look right there at that surface that radiating pattern right there
and that surface right there that's actually an unfused juvenile neck vertebrae of an elephant
yeah that's definitely a neck vertebrae because look those are the little holes on the side
turtle shell would have the cross section of the you know the meat on that side and it
wouldn't have this pattern that's an unfused neck vertebrae pretty beat up but that's what it is you
were wrong i'm sorry it was dark in there you're supposed to be like educating people and you can't
even get your rocks right come on now you have a four-year degree five-year degree i know how
long it took you to finish college it's cool he got a double major in like environmental whatever
all right it is dark we just ran into a gator found some more fossils we're basically done
we just gotta wrap up hike out of here and get dry and fossil another day so thank you
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no probably gonna be mine he keeps talking like that that thing's gonna like draw down all the
gators in mating season one negative review it sounds like a very aggressive gator edgy anxious
not that i know what gator... all right guys we're done as always keep on digging science see ya