As PhD geologist that is passionate about fossils it's a pleasure to read the comments of people appreciating these fossils. My favorite fossil from the Mazon Creek site is the Tully Monster
I took a Physical Geology class as an elective (I'm a Comp Sci major) and it has become one of my favorite side-interests. That class was tough, but so rewarding that I took Historical the following semester with the same professor. It's such a wonderful field
This had me discovering my childhood love of dinosaurs again! Sitting on my chair, legs up, grinning wider than I have in a long time. Thank you, Mr. Odd Animal Specimens, for your gentle voice and enjoyable piano notes, sharing the wonders of our world with us. This is exactly what I needed to find today!
This is called the “Mazon creek” fossil site in northeastern Illinois. I’ve collected hundreds of these exquisitely-preserved plant and animal fossils over the years. The preservation is like nowhere else on the planet. I found a perfectly preserved and incredibly detailed wolf spider fossil (purportedly 309 myo) that looks identical to a wolf spider you’d find hanging out in the bushes around your house!
I am so jealous! I am so glad that you found such a unique creature as a fossil though! It seems that it has found a great home that will appreciate it for years to come. Good luck on finding more and if I ever head that way I'll definitely stop by there to hunt for my own fossils. Thank you for your information about the area and for your comment!
this format reminds me so much of early morning educational programs and I ADORE IT. the accompanying piano really gives so much character, even the way you talk. I’m in love
@@leonardoremmie he doesn’t have hundreds and really you don’t need hundreds to have a collection once you have at least one of some of your favourite species like mine which consists of trilobites fish ammonites and invertebrates
It's amazing to have a collection of your own fossils. To know that you hold a real piece of history in your hands of a once living organism is a strange feeling but one that is wonderfully addictive and won't harm your health. It's something that you will never understand until you learn more about it and appreciate it as a life taken by the world and made into a beautiful sculpture of stone just for you. I started my collection when I was about 7. It has grown quite a bit over the years. I am 24 now. I have specimens of plants, sea life and even of dinosaurs, like tendons - which are rare - and bones. My collection is probably worth about a $1,000 but it's already quite a bit big. I spent a lot of time picking out the best fossils from the smallest, cheapest ones at rock shops and such since I don't have the money to afford museum quality pieces. One of my most prized possessions is from my favorite dinosaur. A piece of real Triceratops jawbone. Luckily I didn't pay what it's worth for it. Paid $35 for a $400 fossil because the seller couldn't identify the individual bone from the creature they knew it was. They probably thought that it was a toe bone! Lol.
@@xXScalesOfSolaceXx my collection mainly consists of trilobites, fish and teeth but I have 1 ammonite, 1 shrimp, 1 Dominican amber, 1 horse ankle and a sand dollar Probably one of the few people asking for fossils for Christmas this year
As A Palaeontologist I Have Seen Nearly All Those Fossils In The Field Before And Its So Much Fun Digging Them Or Find Them By Breaking Or Drilling Rocks
I belong to Area 1 Club and have collected Pit 1 since I was a kid. Most of the old timers picked the place clean but they still erode out of the strip pit hills and pond edges 👍 AWESOME collection in your video
I love your channel! Looking to be a Zoology student next year and looking forward to studying birds, I was wondering if you'd do any videos on specific bird families such as Owls, whether it be the True owl or barn owl families?? I'd love to hear your knowledge!
It is the fossilization process that causes the round concretions. The plant or animal gets buried rapidly (in a river delta environment) and the anaerobic (without oxygen) decomposition process produces chemicals that permeate the sediment around the organism causing a hardened nodule separate from the layered mudstone around it.
i had no idea jellyfish could make fossils! i didn’t know them being buried in silt would create a fossil, i thought they always had to have hard bits to make fossils :) thank you!
I’ve just recently found your channel and I absolutely cannot stop watching it, it is one of the most awesome and best channels out there I love it, thank you for doing what you do 👍😎❤️🇦🇺
I feel the same way. I imagine that it was beautiful back then and the only sounds that could be heard was of nature. No cars, planes, even the sound of electricity humming. And the skies at night would be astonishing. With no light pollution you could see every star and planet with great clarity without a telescope anywhere you are. Oh how badly I wish that I could experience that in prehistoric times. It would be like another great wonder of the world.
Hey, I'm Freya, a 9 year old girl that likes to study fossils. Where did you find these fossils at? And, are any other people besides archeologists allowed to go there? Or is it a place that only archeologists can go?
Did you know that soft organisms fossilise due to them creating a print in the sediment. The print is what gets fossilised not the actual organism. I have a video on my channel of my 2023 fossil finds. It’s very short and basic however.
I don’t understand fossils. Is it a print of the animal/plant? Or are the parts still in the stone? If it’s still there, Would we be able to get a seed from a plant and grow it again? Or is it to lifeless
It can be either! Some fossils are just imprints, like dinosaur footprints, or prints of leaves that landed in mud, left their print, and then decomposed , leaving the pattern behind. In these fossils the rock hardens before the print is changed by the wheather. But other fossils happen when an organism dies and is buried or is buried and then dies. After the organism dies, its body parts are slowly replaced with rock and minerals from the surrounding area, so they keep their shape, but their chemical structure is lost. That's why im comfortable handling my corpralite fossil (that's fossilized poop); because i know there's no poop left. Usualy in the second kind, soft tissues decompose before they fossilize. This is especially true in the ocean, which is why we have lots of ammonite shells, but as far as i know, no ammonite bodies. Occasionally, something will happen that allows soft tissue to be preserved. There is one fossil of an ankylosaurus relative that was somehow mummified after it died (I can't remember how) and because the mummification prevented its soft tissues like skin from decomposing, its entire body fossilized. I reccomend googling this because it's beautiful. Its face and most of its body is intact. There's another dinosaur called anchiornis huxleyi that has its feathers preserved, and scientists were able to look at it under an electron microscope and see trace amounts of pigments, and they were able to reconstruct the color pattern of this dinosaur. It had a beautiful red crest and black and white striped feathers on its hind legs and wings. All fossils are one in a million, but the last two are more like one in a trillion. In conclusion, fossils are cool, and have a nice day.
Could you maybe make a video on American, Canadian, and Great Plains Toads? My team and I are going to state for Fish and Wildlife in April and we still haven't found a reliable way to tell them apart. Well we thought we did, but then we all called an American Toad a Canadian Toad. (Though we sll swear they called it the wrong one).
Its curious how the speciments shown fit their containing mateix so well. Is this just because excess rock was removed, or is there something else happening here?
Have you ever thought of doing asmr? Maybe you could like read a scientific article or wikipedia or something. I really like your cadence. Its very relaxing.
As a scholar, promote laws that prohibit individuals from collecting and taking possession of fossil samples for purely commercial purposes without proper cataloging!
I have some fossils. I have one from my grandpa it’s called a brachiopod and another one I have is from a creature called an ammonite. The last one I have is called a trilobite.
Hey man I’m obsessed with fossils and crystals I went on a trip with my classmates we went exploring and I started digging through the river rocks and I found a fossil! It’s a shell much like this emoji 🐚, but different it looks old and extinct but I know it’s from a family of gastropods! Recently been extinct since 1500* I searched up this fossil and google said around 500 million years! Isn’t that cool 🤓
let me just give you something to consider. the half-life of uranium 238 is 4.5 billion years, which is the about the same amount of time the earth has been around. uranium 237 decays into radium 226, which then decays into radon 222. radon 222 becomes polonium 210, which finally decays into lead. the fact that lead exists disproves the 6,000 year old myth.
As PhD geologist that is passionate about fossils it's a pleasure to read the comments of people appreciating these fossils. My favorite fossil from the Mazon Creek site is the Tully Monster
Thank you for giving me something to research! I'd never heard of this fossil :)
I’ll research it thanks for the idea
I’ve seen something similar of a horseshoe crab or whatever they were called in the past but it’s fascinating
I took a Physical Geology class as an elective (I'm a Comp Sci major) and it has become one of my favorite side-interests. That class was tough, but so rewarding that I took Historical the following semester with the same professor. It's such a wonderful field
The type of unboxing video i genuinely enjoy to watch.
I can definitely see this being the most viewed unboxing video of 2024
this was genuinely fun to watch
I SEE YOU EVERYWHERE
Unrocking?
My packages from AliExpress are a little late. The mailman was caught in a prehistoric flood.
This had me discovering my childhood love of dinosaurs again! Sitting on my chair, legs up, grinning wider than I have in a long time. Thank you, Mr. Odd Animal Specimens, for your gentle voice and enjoyable piano notes, sharing the wonders of our world with us. This is exactly what I needed to find today!
So SOFT❤
Yes! Dinosaurs!❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉
This is called the “Mazon creek” fossil site in northeastern Illinois. I’ve collected hundreds of these exquisitely-preserved plant and animal fossils over the years. The preservation is like nowhere else on the planet. I found a perfectly preserved and incredibly detailed wolf spider fossil (purportedly 309 myo) that looks identical to a wolf spider you’d find hanging out in the bushes around your house!
I am so jealous! I am so glad that you found such a unique creature as a fossil though! It seems that it has found a great home that will appreciate it for years to come. Good luck on finding more and if I ever head that way I'll definitely stop by there to hunt for my own fossils. Thank you for your information about the area and for your comment!
That’s awesome
It's so much harder to find anything there now... But my friend found a beautiful leaf fossil! I hope I'll find a jellyfish or spider one day 🥺
Yeah I’m a little aggravated that the name of the formation was never mentioned.
How do you even identify one? They look like sandstone
Bioloigy student here. Been binging this channel way too much lately, absolutely love your style even if some of the topics are quite simple :)
this format reminds me so much of early morning educational programs and I ADORE IT. the accompanying piano really gives so much character, even the way you talk. I’m in love
Wait….. I collect fossils, i have seen the jellyfish fossils. IVE THEOWN AWAY OVER 50 RARE FOSSILS😮
Why throw it away if you know it’s a fossil 😂
Oooooof
Threw them away because they looked like peepee’s…
that sucks
Rip
Man I love fossils and they are soooo interesting. They are like a huge mystery capsule from millions of years ago!!!
So unbeliably jealous. The ability to just go through all these fossils is incredible. Mans living the life
Make your own fossil collection it’s easy even I have one
@@JosephsJungle8 Yea but to this extent I mean. Hundreds of fossils. I don't have that kind of room or money
@@leonardoremmie he doesn’t have hundreds and really you don’t need hundreds to have a collection once you have at least one of some of your favourite species like mine which consists of trilobites fish ammonites and invertebrates
It's amazing to have a collection of your own fossils. To know that you hold a real piece of history in your hands of a once living organism is a strange feeling but one that is wonderfully addictive and won't harm your health. It's something that you will never understand until you learn more about it and appreciate it as a life taken by the world and made into a beautiful sculpture of stone just for you.
I started my collection when I was about 7. It has grown quite a bit over the years. I am 24 now. I have specimens of plants, sea life and even of dinosaurs, like tendons - which are rare - and bones. My collection is probably worth about a $1,000 but it's already quite a bit big. I spent a lot of time picking out the best fossils from the smallest, cheapest ones at rock shops and such since I don't have the money to afford museum quality pieces.
One of my most prized possessions is from my favorite dinosaur. A piece of real Triceratops jawbone. Luckily I didn't pay what it's worth for it. Paid $35 for a $400 fossil because the seller couldn't identify the individual bone from the creature they knew it was. They probably thought that it was a toe bone! Lol.
@@xXScalesOfSolaceXx my collection mainly consists of trilobites, fish and teeth but I have 1 ammonite, 1 shrimp, 1 Dominican amber, 1 horse ankle and a sand dollar
Probably one of the few people asking for fossils for Christmas this year
As A Palaeontologist I Have Seen Nearly All Those Fossils In The Field Before And Its So Much Fun Digging Them Or Find Them By Breaking Or Drilling Rocks
Man i get a feeling of euphoria when i watch your videos.
I belong to Area 1 Club and have collected Pit 1 since I was a kid. Most of the old timers picked the place clean but they still erode out of the strip pit hills and pond edges 👍 AWESOME collection in your video
I love your channel! Looking to be a Zoology student next year and looking forward to studying birds, I was wondering if you'd do any videos on specific bird families such as Owls, whether it be the True owl or barn owl families?? I'd love to hear your knowledge!
i love this channel. it brings back my sense of childlike wonder for learning :)
3:05
You got me in the first half
I love the Mr. Rogers music you play. I find it so relaxing
How is it possible that they are all perfectly packaged and centered as if made on an assembly line like chocolate covered peanuts?
Because they uncovered the fossil, then carved the rock into a circle around it. Fossils don’t come pre-packaged in nice river stones
It is the fossilization process that causes the round concretions. The plant or animal gets buried rapidly (in a river delta environment) and the anaerobic (without oxygen) decomposition process produces chemicals that permeate the sediment around the organism causing a hardened nodule separate from the layered mudstone around it.
Do you create ALL the music in the background? Because around 4:10 is incredible. And the jaunty little tune during the merch ad. Love it
This guy is the Bob Ross of zoology
Nothing like a nice Calamites fossil to brighten your day!
i had no idea jellyfish could make fossils! i didn’t know them being buried in silt would create a fossil, i thought they always had to have hard bits to make fossils :) thank you!
This style of videos scratches my brain so good😫 sooo soothing. I feel like I’m being swaddled with knowledge
Wow! I discovered your channel only yesterday and I wanted to tell you to never stop showing us these things!!!
I’ve just recently found your channel and I absolutely cannot stop watching it, it is one of the most awesome and best channels out there I love it, thank you for doing what you do 👍😎❤️🇦🇺
Cool! And a bit sad too... I would like to see that ecosystem back then.
I feel the same way. I imagine that it was beautiful back then and the only sounds that could be heard was of nature. No cars, planes, even the sound of electricity humming. And the skies at night would be astonishing. With no light pollution you could see every star and planet with great clarity without a telescope anywhere you are. Oh how badly I wish that I could experience that in prehistoric times. It would be like another great wonder of the world.
He finally got a fish
1:51
Me: it’s a rat
Video:it’s a prehistoric fish.
Me:oh I thought it was a rat-
Hey, I'm Freya, a 9 year old girl that likes to study fossils. Where did you find these fossils at? And, are any other people besides archeologists allowed to go there? Or is it a place that only archeologists can go?
Archeologists study History Paleontologists study Dinosaurs And Only Paleontologist And Scientists are Allowed There Or College people
Ah Mazon Creek, I had a feeling the moment I saw you open the first nodule. Still haven't found an animal fossil from there but got quite a few ferns
Your voice is so soothing and your videos very interesting! I love them!!
LET'S GO! I love fossils! Keep up that scientific research!
I love your Chanel so much, and it’s really cool to see information that I covered in my bio courses pop up here. Thanks for all the amazing content!
2:50 It’s the Bay of Bengal, India
ID speedrun is what we need more of
"But hold on, what's this? This is my secret new merch".....I immediately subscribed
3:04 those jellyfish are sus 😳
My grandpa has a literal fossil collection 😂😂
Video request: Types of bird feathers!! 😊
The background was perfect for this
Did you know that soft organisms fossilise due to them creating a print in the sediment. The print is what gets fossilised not the actual organism. I have a video on my channel of my 2023 fossil finds. It’s very short and basic however.
These are gorgeous
Bruh! I like how he goes through the collection like hes like a explore of collectionist😊
Please do video about centipedes, giant centipede.
They are scary but very fascinating creature.
They are incredibly well preserved😮!
Do you have fossils of even more exciting creatures? Y'know, from Anomalocaris to the Woolly Mammoth.
My favourite unboxing videos yey XD
This has convinced me to start a seed world
Where do you get your sound effects from?
Yeah the coast of Bangladesh my favorite prehistoric place 2:49 😐
I love fossils and history, so when I got the fossils correct, I was like “YIPPEE!!!!!- wait what?”
2:53 WOW! I didn't realize how far back Mocha Latté's went in or fossil records...
thank this one was pritty cool
Man do i love fossils!
Was that flood at the same time when the Iberian plate broke off the Appalachian mountains?! (I’m a tour guide in Spain and wanted to know :))
you can mistaken me for sonic for me running to that collection
I love fossils, I don’t get the opportunity to find them a lot
I don’t understand fossils. Is it a print of the animal/plant? Or are the parts still in the stone? If it’s still there, Would we be able to get a seed from a plant and grow it again? Or is it to lifeless
It can be either! Some fossils are just imprints, like dinosaur footprints, or prints of leaves that landed in mud, left their print, and then decomposed , leaving the pattern behind. In these fossils the rock hardens before the print is changed by the wheather.
But other fossils happen when an organism dies and is buried or is buried and then dies. After the organism dies, its body parts are slowly replaced with rock and minerals from the surrounding area, so they keep their shape, but their chemical structure is lost. That's why im comfortable handling my corpralite fossil (that's fossilized poop); because i know there's no poop left.
Usualy in the second kind, soft tissues decompose before they fossilize. This is especially true in the ocean, which is why we have lots of ammonite shells, but as far as i know, no ammonite bodies.
Occasionally, something will happen that allows soft tissue to be preserved. There is one fossil of an ankylosaurus relative that was somehow mummified after it died (I can't remember how) and because the mummification prevented its soft tissues like skin from decomposing, its entire body fossilized. I reccomend googling this because it's beautiful. Its face and most of its body is intact.
There's another dinosaur called anchiornis huxleyi that has its feathers preserved, and scientists were able to look at it under an electron microscope and see trace amounts of pigments, and they were able to reconstruct the color pattern of this dinosaur. It had a beautiful red crest and black and white striped feathers on its hind legs and wings.
All fossils are one in a million, but the last two are more like one in a trillion.
In conclusion, fossils are cool, and have a nice day.
The prehistoric pokeball is crazy
Could you maybe make a video on American, Canadian, and Great Plains Toads? My team and I are going to state for Fish and Wildlife in April and we still haven't found a reliable way to tell them apart.
Well we thought we did, but then we all called an American Toad a Canadian Toad. (Though we sll swear they called it the wrong one).
Hey odd! You should talk about all tomorrows!
How do you find all of these CRAZY,AWESOME,RARE fossils and have so many of them? By the a way,I love fossils!
That’s got to be a university or museum collection
Can you do video on the individual fossils
Damn that went from 0 to 100 real quick
I've collected stickleback fossils with exstrodinnary detail, even pond plants
Because of you, I’m breaking every rock that I see
Its curious how the speciments shown fit their containing mateix so well. Is this just because excess rock was removed, or is there something else happening here?
2:57
I thought it was prehistoric bread💀💀😭
Isn't it sad that one day, we'll unearth the very last fossil
I am still waiting for the blooper that he "accidentally" break one of them😅
Have you ever thought of doing asmr? Maybe you could like read a scientific article or wikipedia or something. I really like your cadence. Its very relaxing.
Just curious do you have any worm specimens?
The fact that you called them pokéballs
1:58 finally. A fish
Guessing animals section be like
First try: Uhhh CAT-FISH bc it looks like a cat, and the tail is a fish?
2nd: SHRIMP ALFREDO- Wait no its shrimp
As a scholar, promote laws that prohibit individuals from collecting and taking possession of fossil samples for purely commercial purposes without proper cataloging!
that’s so sad:( that they died in that way. anyway this video is so cool thank you for existing
I have some fossils. I have one from my grandpa it’s called a brachiopod and another one I have is from a creature called an ammonite. The last one I have is called a trilobite.
WHERE do you get your music?!?
Hello, you have earned.. a subscriber
1:09 calmites tree, lived during carboniferous period
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa huh Aaaaaaaaaaaa becomes super sanpine
3:05 AYYO
Do they keep those storage rooms cold?
1:09 is that calmites, a tree from carbinoferous period
i got an ad with him on it 💀
Hey man I’m obsessed with fossils and crystals I went on a trip with my classmates we went exploring and I started digging through the river rocks and I found a fossil! It’s a shell much like this emoji 🐚, but different it looks old and extinct but I know it’s from a family of gastropods! Recently been extinct since 1500* I searched up this fossil and google said around 500 million years! Isn’t that cool 🤓
That is awesome
what’s up with your tiktok? a bunch of videos are gone and there’s always a live stream of some ad going?
Hmm, if only there was a record of such a historical great flood...
he was not talking about great global flood that drowned fish and other sea life
There are many records of many great floods throughout history. None of them are a global event, though.
How do they know how to cut the rocks perfectly to show fossil?
Yes
Yeah, the first plants to exist were all fern-like for millions of years
What if they were carvings of early humans? I mean they might have done them too
Because of the weather, it’s destroy the place
Wooaah, that's fascinating
300 million years, or more like 6000.✝
let me just give you something to consider. the half-life of uranium 238 is 4.5 billion years, which is the about the same amount of time the earth has been around. uranium 237 decays into radium 226, which then decays into radon 222. radon 222 becomes polonium 210, which finally
decays into lead. the fact that lead exists disproves the 6,000 year old myth.
Jellyfish looks like bread fr
This rocks❤❤❤❤
They are!
Tell me why all your videos sound like were watching a video in class
wow,nice video 👍