we have made it out to one of my favorite secret tidal creeks that is just loaded
with megalodon shark teeth and other unique marine fossils i'm here today with my brother
and my fiance and we are about to find a ton of shark teeth all we got to do is start digging
you got some teeth brother yeah i got a decent first sift your first sift let me see what you got
oh we got a handful of teeth and one sift that's what's really cool about this location is that
almost every single sift is going to have shark teeth but if you notice something interesting
Kat over here is in a wetsuit because it's 50 degrees i'm in a wetsuit because it's 50 degrees
but my brother over here what are you wearing justin a leather jacket pink shorts and are those
those are sandals yes my feet are very cold it's 50 degrees man it's a nice little nice hemi
cool we're going to be on a lot of teeth today we are going to be on a lot of teeth
justin says he has an unknown object and he wants to show me it has interesting pattern
on it but i can't tell what it is it's got like a bunch of small circles almost like scales
rotate it down a bit oh that's a fish jaw i don't know what species but that's a fish jaw for sure
it's a mouth plate or yeah it's a mouth plate all those little round things are basically its teeth
and it used that to crush small invertebrates yep cool little fine though
put in your pocket your little fossil pocket and get back to diggin
you don't like this spot let's give it a little bit more and we can move
it's kind of deep and gross tides coming up yeah i know if tides coming up we're going to
have to head a shallower spot anyway so the gravel that we're looking for
and that's in this shovel is phosphate rock and that phosphate rock was here on the bottom of
the ocean floor during the miocene and oligocene and it got phosphatized they were just limestone
nodules or other random bits of rocks and they got phosphatized by minerals coming
from an upwelling zone and what also was on the bottom of the ocean floor were the
remains of marine animals like shark teeth and stingrays and those also got phosphatized and
you'll find them mixed in with all of this gravel now that is not a fossil that is a brick bye brick
let's go through this so if you notice my sit there's a lot of vegetation the vegetation is
going to be lighter than the rocks so we can do is we can push the sifter down and move it forward
and we can get some of that vegetation out of the sif ter and make it easier for us to find stuff
just a little tip for you guys looking to find your own shark teeth in the future all right let's
see if we got any teeth got an interesting vertebrae right there cool trace fossil
another awesome trace fossil oh there's a tooth
thank you oh it's a pretty tooth oh and right there
teefies so the water level's gotten up a bit we're gonna move on to a shallower spot but
i want to show you all some of the species of shark we managed to cover in just a couple sifts
in this location so right in the center of the frame we've got some of my favorite
teeth these are snaggletooth shark teeth we've got the false tiger shark right here
physogaleous contortus we've got the modern tiger shark galeocerdo cuvier
we've got a chunk of a megalodon tooth we've got a chunk of an angustiden tooth we've got some
false makos and mako relatives we've got requiem sharks right here a lot of different species and
a lot of different teeth for just two sifts all right let's move on to spot number two
in case of gators so i have to be the sacrificial pawn that walks through this boggy swampy creek
that has no flow that sounds great it looks like they're struggling over here so cold
this is why we don't normally do this in winter i can't feel my toes it's only been like 30 minutes
i can't feel them i told you to get something warm i didn't have anything warm
oh it's got shallow at least here all right i'll go back in front all right we're
getting pretty close to the second spot but this is not easy moving i would say
oh just nailed this log underwater that did not feel great watch out for this
log it's completely buried oh nice tooth right there nice tooth or small one yeah go grab it
this is where i found that nice one last time yeah on the wall it's right by it is that a nice tooth
oh bring it over that's a sweet tooth justin you're pretty lucky here you found some nice teeth
like the teeth here aren't always the greatest quality because of the tidal action but justin's
found some really high quality pieces i just look at the bank and saw the triangle but it's really
dirty muddy cause it's been there for a while let me see if i can clean it up a little bit
let's look at that tooth does that have cusp no no so it's got one there a little bit oh so it is
an angustiden the precursor to megalodon nice little tooth let's go get more of that for those
of you who do want to do this remember you're gonna have to deal with a boggy swamps like this
on a pretty much daily basis why is he carrying all your stuff yeah i know i
just noticed justin's carrying a lot of stuff carrying all your stuff hey he's a good brother
i know such a burden good work justin you owe that man lunch i think i do
and some warm clothes i can't believe it he chose this life though like i couldn't
i didn't have to dress him like that's not my job it's not czarisse's job either
oh jeez all right tell me guys do i have a stick in my hair i can't tell
apparently i do i guess watch out
yeah this is all gravioli we're just walking on lots of gravel let's start digging before
the tide comes all the way up i like this setup where i can have the sifter attached to my shovel
and that way this is always near that and it will not float away hopefully
we aint leaving until somebody finds something good
oh that's good gravioli oh more good gravioli
oh sifter sinking that means i need to sift it yeah i also feel like the teeth in this spot
have been transported a lot more than over there and so they're not gonna be as in good of shape
oh nice mako oh you got a half let me see oh heartbreaker little halfer there you go yeah so
the gear over here is about to get swamped when we first got here there was only a thin channel right
here and now it's all the way up and this is about to get flooded and there won't be much area to
put anything so we'll have to get out of here in just a second
thanks i guess we can dig a little bit here but it is high already oh you got some teeth
yeah you got a couple teeth Kat nice finding them surface collecting that's a pretty one up here
good shark teeth shark tooth gremlin we got to keep moving
you're more interested in trying to find bigger stuff did you even hear me stop picking up shark teeth we gotta move you
gave me a bag i'm filling it well we definitely found a few more teeth a lot of teeth for just an
hour but we are getting swamped out the creek is raising about to fall brother the creek is all the
way all the way up where the gear was over there is completely buried so we are gonna have to get
out of here we might try one more spot real quick and get some nice breakfast going on and hopefully
we find something there got another tooth yeah i think so it's so worn yeah all right let's
get out of here i've made it into the new spot justin's run off somewhere ahead of us and Kat
claimed it was too cold to get back in the water so i'm gonna go find justin and see if there's a
couple teeth in this creek we can pick up before we have to head home well that's a very big snake
no thank you you've been dead for a little bit let's hope there's no live ones to attack us looks
like a few different people have been out here digging before there's an interesting bones here
justin has some of the host rock and he's busting it apart to see if there's any teeth in it
oh that big one split below it that's where you'd find a nice tooth though it might actually be
worth sifting so we've been breaking apart that giant boulder and justin just got super lucky
look at that tooth it's perfect it's orange clean that one up get it out of the matrix that's
awesome justin you're crazy oh my gosh that is pretty keep cleaning it oh that's perfect that is
such a gorgeous tooth that's a trip maker yes that might be the best tooth you found color wise
and condition wise like that's older than the megalodon teeth we find that's 24 million years
that's an angustiden, the precursor the shark that evolved into megalodon
show the little cusps so they still have these fish catching adaptations on the corner of their
teeth right here a group of razorations near where the enamel reaches the root and that's
actually a fish catching adaptation and by the time megalodon evolved they no longer needed it
and you don't see it in Megalodon teeth that is a wicked tooth can i see it wow wow
justin i am jealous right now that is a wicked angustiden tooth that's as nice as they get
justin you lucky dog you lucky dog you're not even that excited you're still cold it's a little cold
it's pretty good i wanna find another one you wanna find another one all right well i wanna
find one too that's sick that is so cool good fine justin here you go thank you yeah it's pretty wow
that makes it worth it that makes the other creek totally worth it that's crazy
i just managed my own little tooth in the matrix justin's still breaking apart matrix over here
but i'm pretty sure that that is a physogaleous contortu s tooth the false tiger shark
and it looks like it's in great shape so i'm gonna leave that in the matrix for now and i'll bust
it out of there in just a second but i still got some matrix to bust up by hand over here come on
rock break me off a crumb of one of the nice teeth
preferably the whole thing we didn't expect to find this little deposit so
like this is cool let's take advantage of it and see if we can't get another one of those angus
diet and teeth cause i'd be wicked if we could get a pair cat's gonna be so jealous though if we come
back oh justin just i don't know if it's whole oh it's busted where's the missing piece to this
look right there oh yeah oh my gosh look at the camera what happened to the other piece of clay
yeah you just probably broke that off like really i know oh
that's cool that is cool so i was just looking over here and i found
a meg that is a reworked meg look at the little impression the negative in the clay
but there are big teeth in these little blocks that we keep looking through
and that is pretty cool so we'll spend a little bit more time here we did not expect to find these
that's awesome i love finding these big shark teeth it's in such beat up condition though but
that's cool Kat will not understand what's going on i'm gonna go back sign another one let's find
another one this gravel size see how big some of these pieces are that's like one giant chunk
that's where you find big teeth and that's why justin found his angustiden in there and while
we're finding shark teeth in here is you've got a good size class oh man i'm so jealous that
your tooth was like perfect and i was all beat up we'll get back we have to show that tooth to Kat
oh there's a tooth just a tip one two yep shamer unfortunately we're getting a lot of these poorly
mineralized teeth where their roots have been dissolved by acids that have flowed
through this rock but we found a couple nice keepers and we'll still use this caveman style
until it stops working there's something slightly peaceful about it huh it's out here in the woods
breaking apart rocks with our bare hands like jungle creatures like swamp children
gator tooth yeah it'd be crocodile for where we're at in the chandler bridge
it looks more like a coral than a gator tooth yeah it's coral but that is another broken piece of
either an angusstiden or meg taking a closer look and that's not a meg it's just a poorly
preserved angustiden really beat up but still a cool tooth i'm going to keep looking brother
is that your go-to putting the camera just and smile justin smiles such a cool little creek
it's funny that just in that boulder that you walked by there's a tooth like can you imagine
what's in all the different boulders in this creek there's probably so many teeth in here
someone's gonna come over here after we busted all these open they're gonna find a big old tooth
so we missed yeah i know what'd you get oh that would have been a nice tooth it's just
the skeleton of one there's that little bit of tooth piece that was stuck in that
rock we just showed you it's got serrations on it but didn't make it through the insides
of these things don't always fossilize but the outside's apatite so it's got preservation bias
it normally survives the sedimentation process but that guy's still trying don't hurt yourself
he's in sandals y'all that still is driving me nuts all these boulders have stuff we
could spend the whole day just busting open boulders and probably found a couple nice teeth
yep but we gotta go we gotta go unfortunately we gotta go yeah so that just goes to show that
sometimes you just get lucky hunting these low country creeks we weren't gonna take home much
from today's hunt the first spot was crap with the tidal creek and then we drove a while to come here
and we got lucky justin found this insanely amazing angustiden shark tooth perfect quality
thats a keeper we got a bunch of other little broken angustidens a nice contortus that
shamer which is cool because it's actually got a negative you rarely ever see anything like that
but even though that was a short hunt i am thankful that we got out fossil hunting
and i'm even more thankful for all of you that join us on these videos make sure to like
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check out what justin found
ahow her show her the goodie nice tooth isn't it and that's the clunker i found oh that's nicer
i know it's nicer all right let's go get in the car let's go some waffle house yep waffle house