Australia fossil adventure: diving for fossil shark teeth
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- Опубликовано: 30 ноя 2023
- I was in Australia recently for a palaeontology conference and managed to get in the water to look for some fossils. There were some beautiful sea urchins as well as awesome shark teeth, no megalodon this time though!
Another Australia trip is definitely planned for the future!
I left the fossils in Australia, including the big shark teeth, so they stay in Country.
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Whenever I go fossil hunting I usually come home with fossilised shells, coral, occasionally sea urchins and petrified wood. My dream is to find a fossilised shark tooth. 🙂
It will be out there, sounds like you're in the right place!
Exactly my situation, though I also find ammonites. I dream of finding a vertebrate fossil.
Where are you from @drumfish2744?
@@JanKon8 From Victoria.
Easier if you buy one won’t cost you much
Once you got your eyes dialed in, you did great! Thanks for the fun adventure. The ray was a bonus.
A new type of adventure. Thanks for taking us along.
My pleasure!
That water was so clear! Thank you for sharing your adventures.
My pleasure!!
Wow! Looks like so much fun! I want to try diving some day. Fascinating finds!
It was so much fun!
Next to the coin you found it was a straight scuare stone, that would worth takin out and check it
And when you found that little white one thingy whiout a name, just upper looked like a big bone separated by the little Bone on top of it and further again some straight big square big blooks
And then whili you moving you see them big blocks and at minute 2.46 you get at the yellow big block wich has something written on the top of it
When you pick the shark tot you miss a nice green sheel ( to the right )
At 6.29 just above you hand they are like 3 home made pots , worth checking
And also remember the colour of the big stones found and had the he biggest bone you have , and since you are in the water look for the rest of the skeleton
Cheers happy finds
It's Carcharodon hastalis now, I think. Anyway, lovely teeth! Much respect for the will power to leave them behind.
Thanks! Lovely colours on them as well, I feel like fossils should try and stay in their country
Beautiful finds ❤ well done 🎉
Thanks for watching!!
Great finds! Water was nice and clear too. And quite the swimming buddy you found! Yikes! 😂
Nothing better than a fossil shark tooth finding day! 🎉
That was such a big stingray!!
Enjoy learning from you on the beach. Now learning even more from you under water. The water is so clear. Thank you.
The water was amazing, the next day a storm came through and it was like mud!
This was a beautiful video! Thank you for taking us with you under water.
Anytime! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Always enjoyable! Thank you.
My pleasure!
2:37 This thing almost looks dentary, it might be a shed pharyngeal crushing tooth of some kind of large fish that eats hard-shelled organisms. I wouldn't even know where to begin on finding out what fish that would be.
Actually I think it _might_ be a back tooth of a shark from the Heterodontus genus! Possibly a Port Jackson shark, which are the largest and are found around the southern coasts of AUS.
Congratulations on having one of your specimens being published on.
Thanks so much!!
Beautiful colours and good preservation.
The colours are amazing, hints of green in there as well
Thanks for the video, Master Morne. Those are some really cool teeth. The teeth on that modern fish jawbone were quite wicked as well!
I always worry when I see stingrays around divers after what happened to Steve Irwin. (And watching some of the experiments Jeremy Wade did with them.) So I’m glad you kept a safe distance. Magnificent animals.
They are huge but definitely need to be respected! Thanks for watching!
The 2 things that I love the most: Sea and fossils, I´m studying marine biology and I´m on a fossil project. Great video!
Oooh that sounds amazing!
Wow! Those were some awesome finds! And how did it feel to find your first big shark's tooth? That was a good sized one too! Where were you diving that you couldn't keep them? I think your best find was that 6ft stingray! Man he looked huge! That must have given you a bit of a scare at first? Gorgeous animals! Awesome video! And I'm glad you got to experience getting your first tooth anyways! And it's on the internet, so it is forever anyways! 🎉❤🎉
I could have kept them I suppose but I like leaving fossils in the country I find them. That stingray was sooo big, it sure gave me a fright!
Oh I was in Australie 😀
Bone is remnant of modern eroded snapper skull. Ramp & cleaning tables nearby!
Thanks for that info!!
Very nice shark's teeth! 😊
Thanks Karen!!
Great video sir well done on finding so many shark teeth to bad you didn't keep them. Thanks for sharing this awesome content with us six stars brother
They went to a better home 😀 I did catch and release some of them
Awesome you found so many shark teeth. It's a shame you couldn't bring them back here with you
I could have brought them back but I prefer leaving them in their country 😀
You are like a little boy on Christmas morning every time you find a shark tooth! I love it! When you don’t take your finds back home what do you do with them? Give them to a local fossil hunter?
I just left most of them on a rock at the beach, but the two big shark teeth I gave to 2 young fossil hunters, the bits of bone I gave to another local Aus collector
Its crazy how fish can have teeth like that nice finds
Very weird teeth!
Box jellyfish, white sharks, blue-ringed octopus, saltwater crocodile, stonefish. 😬
I will not be diving in Australia anytime soon.
I kept an eye out fornanything blue 😃
i go fossil hunting around sydney and wollongong an up north, hard to find anything else but plants ,coral, sea shells and those simple life forms. very cool your able to find teethh
Some great fossils in Aus though!
whats the location though?
Either on the beach/in the water... once you find one or two ... then you learn the patern.
Used to take friends/family to look for shark teeth. Would have them behind me and if they missed one would tem them to turn around. Soon they were eagle eye's... or shark 🦈 tooth eyes 🤔
I know what you mean! It took me ages to find the first one but only minutes to find the second!
@@MamlamboFossils once your brain 🧠 is wired, especially in a different environment, it's all gravy 😊🍻
Nice
Hi their, where did the house bricks come from that you can see at about 3.07 in on the video?
Do all the shark teeth have a split up the side or is that just coincidence. Great Video as normal. Regards Richard 🇬🇧
Fun fact, bricks were often used as ballast in old ships, they were cheap and easy to stack to line the hulls of ships and were offloaded to offset cargo on return journeys. That may not be what happened here because coastal erosion and use of rubble to create artificial structure is also a thing, but they look like the right kind of age and type for the ballast bricks. Interesting little bit of maritime history, you can find that kind of thing on the east coast of North America as well
I assume the cliffs eroding had some buildings on them or it was dumped in earlier times. It might just be a coincidence with the split
There is a very good spot that can be walked to during low tide lots of shark teeth there
Nice!!! I will have to try and check it out next time!
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Just had a thought, not sure how good New Zealand would be for Metal detecting, I've been doing it since the mid 70's on and off, probably a bit time consuming.
Fossilized perogie
White thingy - may be an egg case
the only guess i can make about the mysterious white object at 2:37 is possibly some kind of malformed shark egg? i honestly have no clue what else it could be beyond a strange bone or a piece of plastic
It was so weird!! It definitely looked like bone to me
Is there anywhere you won't go to find a fossil😉?! Is that an ancient dead reef or is it one they could try to propagate and regenerate? Sorry about all the questions but Curious is my middle name! Not much in the way of many fish swimming around, or do you scare them away? Of course not to forget how much you love finding shark's teeth - what a pity they had to stay behind. Such beauties.
I think they erode out of the cliffs at the beach, I saw small fish but not really big ones other than the stingray. I prefer leaving fossils in their country 😀
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I think that white mystery thing was a hyperostosed fish bone. Is this Beaumaris?
I think you’re right. There are places in the US where hyperostosed bones from certain fish species are regularly found. They often get misidentified.
Oooh thanks Carl! Yeah that definitely makes sense, and yip it was Beaumaris
@@MamlamboFossils I wanna go there SO badly
@@carlmehling1475 you should come over and do a tour of NZ and Aus!!
@@MamlamboFossils You have no idea how high on the list that is.
Welcome to Oz. Coming up to Qld?
I was only there for a few days, back in NZ already. It was for a conference
DUUUUDE 2:51 A few seconds ago there was rectangle bricks. Did you see them and know where they might be from?
There were quite a bit of building rubble around
Thing at 2.49 looks like a squid egg
It was definitely bone!
Were you diving of the coast of Victoria somewhere?
I think it was Victoria, I'm not too sure about the Aussie states and territories
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Thanks!!
Great ! So you are not a collector ? (or I imagine it must be veeeeery special)
I do collect NZ fossils that museums don't want but I feel like fossils should stay in their country - its part of Australia's heritage.
@@MamlamboFossils Rock or fossil or shell, sometimes I take one back because it's so amazing and beautiful and that I love to hold and look at it... and it remermbers me the moment I collected it.
Selfish, no ?
Where did you go snorkeling
Swam with orca yet?
Not yet!
Could have picked a better spot surely ? So much brick , concrete and tarmac on the floor there .
It was a great spot, I assume that's from some flooding
was that CAVEPS? how was it?
Yeah it was! I loved it, learnt so much while I was there
Why did you not take the fossils back to New Zealand? Customs wont allow it?
I felt it was part of Australia's heritage so took photos and video of them and left them.
in nsw?
I thinknit was Victoria
Hey dude, i had a question not really related to this video that i think you might find interesting.
Ive been seeing a lot of other channels making similar videos to yours where they look for rocks and try to find fossils or geodes. However, a lot of these folks are using very crude ways of opening them up, that being just taking a hammer and cracking them open on the beach. This seems like it may be problematic for the longterm preservation of these fossils.
Two examples im thinking of is 1) someone cracking open a shell fossil and some of the shiny lining almost instantly peeling away, and 2) the same guy cracking a rock, big enough to hold about 4 of your penguin fossils, into 4 pieces with his hammer.
Im kinda concerned that these videos may send a bad precedent of these scientifically valuable fossils, and more youtubers cracking open pretty rocks for views, not at all with the care you put into revealing and preserving the fossils. Lord forbid people illegally harvesting fossils from scientifically blocked off paleontology sites (i actually saw a video of two guy's doing just that).
So down to the question is: do you see this as an actual problem? Why or why not? And do you think there can be any advocacy awareness that could be brought up for the value that fossils bring?