Plesiosaur fossil find and prep: looking for some dinosaur age fossils [prep included!]

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  • Опубликовано: 14 авг 2023
  • I headed out to two areas, one Oligocene and one Cretaceous, to look for some new fossils. I had a great couple of days and found some good fossils including a large suspected Cretaceous fossil fish.
    One of the fossils I found looked like a rib so I decided to do a quick prep on it using a few air scribes and vinegar.
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Комментарии • 124

  • @jakemoeller7850
    @jakemoeller7850 10 месяцев назад +15

    Fun and exciting to find something tens of millions of years old 😃

  • @MamlamboFossils
    @MamlamboFossils  10 месяцев назад +26

    Thanks so much for joining me for this video! If you're looking for more fossil content, I have 93 videos over on patreon which you can watch for $4 - I won't mind if you watch them all in one month and then bail 😂 www.patreon.com/mamlambo

  • @Thorstein31
    @Thorstein31 10 месяцев назад +10

    It's a RUclips tradition to see you lug massive boulders for miles across various beaches! Hope it has good stuff in it!

    • @MamlamboFossils
      @MamlamboFossils  10 месяцев назад +3

      😂 I have to keep the tradition going!

  • @patifagan6774
    @patifagan6774 10 месяцев назад +3

    Awesome

  • @BRODIEGILLETT
    @BRODIEGILLETT 10 месяцев назад +3

    This is gonna be awesome

  • @Fossil08
    @Fossil08 10 месяцев назад +2

    Exciting find! That new beach looks like a goldmine for gargantuan concretions

  • @allegg8804
    @allegg8804 10 месяцев назад +4

    Thank you for showing us your beach hunt.

  • @garnettoll9317
    @garnettoll9317 10 месяцев назад +6

    That was fun!! Thanks for taking us along on your adventure and the fossil prep! It is cooling off here from 108 yesterday to 95 today. We usually have mid 70's this time of year.

    • @MamlamboFossils
      @MamlamboFossils  10 месяцев назад +1

      That is quite hot!! Hope it gets cooler soon!

  • @janerichman3100
    @janerichman3100 5 месяцев назад

    I could watch this all day, thank you 😊

  • @micktepolt6276
    @micktepolt6276 10 месяцев назад +2

    right on !

  • @BabyBoomersDoomer
    @BabyBoomersDoomer 10 месяцев назад +2

    I recognize that golden glow. Spring is coming!

  • @gaius_enceladus
    @gaius_enceladus 8 месяцев назад +1

    Awesome find with that plesiosaur fossil!
    You seem to have a really good eye for spotting promising fossils!

  • @microstorm
    @microstorm 10 месяцев назад +1

    The view on the drive back is stunning!

    • @MamlamboFossils
      @MamlamboFossils  10 месяцев назад

      The mountains always look so nice with snow on them

  • @TheOldladyB
    @TheOldladyB 10 месяцев назад +2

    What a great find.

  • @alwoodsmodellingmayhem
    @alwoodsmodellingmayhem 10 месяцев назад +2

    Nicely done as always my friend.👏👏

  • @lyarnes
    @lyarnes 10 месяцев назад +3

    Hello from Oregon!

  • @alignwithsarah
    @alignwithsarah 10 месяцев назад +2

    Holy cow that had to have been a serious effort to get off the beach! Very cool (and exciting!) find in that first rock

    • @MamlamboFossils
      @MamlamboFossils  10 месяцев назад

      Thanks!! Worth it though!!

    • @13Odrade
      @13Odrade 10 месяцев назад +1

      I was expecting to see him carrying the first heavy one on his little chariot. Crazy enough he is ! ;o)
      Nice ribs !

  • @nathanielrittenhouse9965
    @nathanielrittenhouse9965 10 месяцев назад +1

    You need a large pull behind wagon to pull one of the large concreations out. Would be an amazing prep

    • @MamlamboFossils
      @MamlamboFossils  10 месяцев назад +1

      Access is the problem, big cliffs you have to clamber down!

  • @2flight
    @2flight 10 месяцев назад +1

    I really enjoy your videos. Thank You!

  • @RapiersSting
    @RapiersSting 10 месяцев назад +4

    awwwee seal pup!!! fluffy!!!

    • @MamlamboFossils
      @MamlamboFossils  10 месяцев назад +2

      It looks so huggable!

    • @RapiersSting
      @RapiersSting 10 месяцев назад

      omg yes!! with the little tiny ears and big doe eyes!!!@@MamlamboFossils

  • @leslyeschoenhuth1107
    @leslyeschoenhuth1107 10 месяцев назад +1

    * Hope you can do more videos about your finds.. Wish there were a way to transport your huge finds..

  • @tonycole9620
    @tonycole9620 10 месяцев назад +1

    I love seeing the scenery in your b-roll. What a gorgeous country!

    • @MamlamboFossils
      @MamlamboFossils  10 месяцев назад

      I always remind myself to look up now and again, it really is beautiful!

  • @a3skywarrior929
    @a3skywarrior929 10 месяцев назад +1

    Big thanks for taking us along! Very special bone...I would have been dragging the other two rocks 🪨 back ...definitely using a litter system. 🤙🍻🐝

  • @user-xv9bi3ne9m
    @user-xv9bi3ne9m 10 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks for another great fossil hunting adventure with a prep thrown in. Be blessed. My friend.

  • @ssrattus
    @ssrattus 10 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks for the video!

  • @davenelson413
    @davenelson413 10 месяцев назад +1

    ohhhh very cool reminds me of the days so long ago when I was doing geology at Otago University around the time they found the plesiosaur skeleton at Shag Point. It's extraction from the rock was a mammoth task

    • @MamlamboFossils
      @MamlamboFossils  10 месяцев назад +1

      I've seen that one! I think Ewan Fordyce wrote the paper on it - it must have been a huge task!

    • @davenelson413
      @davenelson413 10 месяцев назад

      ohh yes, Gosh, Ewan Fordyce is a name I havent heard for many years. I came across a YT video a month or so ago from the OU starring Dr Daphnee Lee (maybe professor now) who was doing a video on a field trip for fossils. Daphnee was one of my many lecturers at OU and I really enjoyed her teaching style. .... I look forward to watching through many more of your videos as time goes by. All my fossil collection ended up at the university geology dept. only my rocks and mineral collection came to Australia with me 23 years ago. I could waffle on for ages about my activities, but I will spare you hahaha take care, keep up the good work, cheers, Dave

  • @mysticmike9778
    @mysticmike9778 10 месяцев назад +2

    Nice

  • @josephcormier5974
    @josephcormier5974 10 месяцев назад +1

    That's a very nice rib bone cluster excellent find love to see the new places that you are able to hunt. Thank you for sharing this with us six stars brother

    • @MamlamboFossils
      @MamlamboFossils  10 месяцев назад

      Thanks for watching Joseph! I really appreciate your kind comments!

  • @vandelftcrafts2958
    @vandelftcrafts2958 10 месяцев назад +1

    that huge concretion with all the bones in there looks like a plesiosaur flipper to me. Worth a trip to get that definitely.

    • @MamlamboFossils
      @MamlamboFossils  10 месяцев назад +1

      I thought the same thing! If it wasn't so big I would totally try and get it out! It's not going anywhere luckily!

    • @vandelftcrafts2958
      @vandelftcrafts2958 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@MamlamboFossils you could try to break it in two pieces and get those out separately. Or get your rugby team and do a team building event carrying that thing out 🤣

    • @MamlamboFossils
      @MamlamboFossils  10 месяцев назад +1

      @@vandelftcrafts2958 I always aim to get it out in one piece,I'll have to talk to my local rugby club!

  • @skp8738
    @skp8738 10 месяцев назад +1

    Always fascinating to watch the prep! Thank you for sharing!

  • @sandraanderson217
    @sandraanderson217 10 месяцев назад +1

    Everything you find is exciting! Love the prepping videos! Thanks for sharing!

    • @MamlamboFossils
      @MamlamboFossils  10 месяцев назад +1

      Thanks for watching!! Glad you enjoyed it Sandra!

  • @minacadalso
    @minacadalso 10 месяцев назад +1

    Awesome find! And thanks for showing those vertebrae at the end, super cool to see

  • @gojirazillasaurus6341
    @gojirazillasaurus6341 10 месяцев назад

    Great Find! I just came back to your channel. Awesome vids.

  • @lunarmodule7802
    @lunarmodule7802 10 месяцев назад +1

    I really enjoy your videos, and to me all your finds are exciting. Thanks for sharing!

  • @ephemeraltrash6209
    @ephemeraltrash6209 3 месяца назад

    At 7:30; Almost makes me think of a Daemonelix! It's not the same, obviously, but reminiscent.

  • @sunlight3542
    @sunlight3542 10 месяцев назад +2

    Beautiful rib, and I’m super curious to see what’s in that weird concretion

    • @MamlamboFossils
      @MamlamboFossils  10 месяцев назад +1

      Thanks!! I need to get into some more prepping, I've been a bit slack in that department!

  • @mariemoss2475
    @mariemoss2475 10 месяцев назад +1

    I think if you were able to you would have come back with a lot more... another great video 👍😊

  • @trobinson9342
    @trobinson9342 10 месяцев назад +1

    7:30 cheese pizza rock LOL

  • @fosiljawatimur
    @fosiljawatimur 10 месяцев назад +1

    Good stone good Fossils

  • @aserta
    @aserta 10 месяцев назад

    You could pick up those boulders using a yoke lever. Essentially a long piece of pipe with a bend in it, a wheel on the shorter part of the bend (something off a go-kart will do) and on the other (longer) end a Y shaped yoke with long handle bars that reach past your shoulders down in the position where you have the greatest control over the verticality of this contraption. Near the crook of this bend, a piece of metal would be welded perpendicularly to give tie points for a strap weaved basket in which the rock can sit. Safety belts in cars, even junk ones from a pull-apart are very stout, and all you'd need to make a basket of sufficient size is a 10 belts.
    Not my idea, saw a similar thing made out of wood some years ago. Instead of a wheel the wood would bend again and be joined to a sled with a metal pin. I think this is 1600's tech, but i might be wrong on the date. People were ingenious back then, even without a horse, this would allow the farmer to pull anything but the biggest boulders out of their field.
    That said, amazing find and super pre work!

  • @ianstewartbrown5308
    @ianstewartbrown5308 10 месяцев назад +1

    Love anything from the age of the dinosaurs, may not be your most exciting find but I found it really cool, great video

  • @KrisPSouls9258
    @KrisPSouls9258 10 месяцев назад +1

    That would be so exciting going through all those rocks looking for fossils. Im from Indiana in the Us and the museum here has had some new un named dinosaurs. I always thought it was crazyl being one of the first people in the world to see the new Dinosaurs and watch as they prep the bones. Anyways awesome finds as always bud. You have a good one im always looking forward to your next videos.

    • @MamlamboFossils
      @MamlamboFossils  10 месяцев назад +1

      Thanks so much Kris! I hope I find a true dinosaur one day!

  • @Casmael01
    @Casmael01 10 месяцев назад +3

    just randomly stumbled upon this video - first of yours I've seen! Really nice and relaxing to watch. I'd recommend putting in a bit of footage showing the scenery around where you are as you go through the video, to give the audience a bit of context. Could also add to the chill vibe. Peace x

    • @MamlamboFossils
      @MamlamboFossils  10 месяцев назад

      Thanks, I'll do as much as I can without giving away the location 😀

  • @sueparras6028
    @sueparras6028 10 месяцев назад +1

    Love watching your videos! You take so much time and care with your fossils, unlike those channels where the guys just bash them with hammers and hope for the best. LoL. 👍💯✌🇨🇦

  • @lonl123
    @lonl123 10 месяцев назад +1

    Fantastic video as always! So envious your located where you can get such cool Fossils!

  • @mariasunbury4788
    @mariasunbury4788 10 месяцев назад +1

  • @jordanmactier6317
    @jordanmactier6317 10 месяцев назад

    Love watching your fossil finding/prep videos. Wonder when your next give away is or if you sell any fossils ?

  • @NewZealandRocksDownunder
    @NewZealandRocksDownunder 10 месяцев назад +1

    Amazing find, what is the purpose of the buffer in the acid?

    • @MamlamboFossils
      @MamlamboFossils  10 месяцев назад

      It makes the bone less attractive to the acid so it attacks the rock rather

  • @andreb2019
    @andreb2019 10 месяцев назад +2

    Man...how did you learn to get so good at the fossil prep. You make it look so easy....

    • @MamlamboFossils
      @MamlamboFossils  10 месяцев назад

      Just practice!!

    • @andreb2019
      @andreb2019 10 месяцев назад

      @@MamlamboFossils well good on ya mate. You do a stellar job.

  • @taravitti2544
    @taravitti2544 7 месяцев назад +1

    Lol, you need a bigger drone, so you can fly out those larger concretions!

  • @favoriteanony7252
    @favoriteanony7252 10 месяцев назад +1

    In love with your videos ❤
    I'd love to find mosasaur or plesiosaur. The best I get are sharkteeth, which are always great to find, and bits of petrified turtle bone (unidentifiable pieces, but we can't keep them, unfortunately).
    I'm curious. Is that a moa replica behind you in the last shot?

    • @MamlamboFossils
      @MamlamboFossils  10 месяцев назад +1

      Yeah, it's a moa I 3d printed, here's the video: ruclips.net/video/eoX-qsSySy4/видео.html

  • @jamesbarisitz4794
    @jamesbarisitz4794 10 месяцев назад

    That shoreline is a yardsale of fossils. Those trumpet shaped ones looked like plants (?)

    • @MamlamboFossils
      @MamlamboFossils  10 месяцев назад +1

      I don't think they were plants or any other fossils, they looked all rock

  • @peterclegg2609
    @peterclegg2609 10 месяцев назад +2

    It would be nice if someone invented an anti gravity device, big fossils no worries 😏

  • @samg6238
    @samg6238 10 месяцев назад +1

    2:15 to the left of the bone rock, I know it's just a rock but I see the face of a turtle skull

  • @Whateverhasbeenmynameforyears
    @Whateverhasbeenmynameforyears 10 месяцев назад +1

    7:30 I think it is trace of burrows.

  • @emk7132
    @emk7132 10 месяцев назад +1

    How did you kearn both the hunt and the clean-up?

    • @MamlamboFossils
      @MamlamboFossils  10 месяцев назад

      Just some trial and error! I brought many rocks home that were just rocks 🤣

  • @Doxymeister
    @Doxymeister 9 месяцев назад

    👍

  • @urenglishbestie
    @urenglishbestie 10 месяцев назад

    So saftisfying💀💀💀

  • @1224bobo
    @1224bobo 7 месяцев назад

    how many drill bits would you go through during a prep?

    • @MamlamboFossils
      @MamlamboFossils  7 месяцев назад

      Not even one, they are tungsten carbide

  • @mattpollis3537
    @mattpollis3537 10 месяцев назад +2

    🤓🪨

  • @19popo87
    @19popo87 9 месяцев назад

    My mind Is cursed.

  • @user-ww5rq6lh1u
    @user-ww5rq6lh1u 7 месяцев назад

    So beautiful you are so cool

  • @rymkervic123456
    @rymkervic123456 10 месяцев назад +1

    Forever amazed how you can see something from nothing.

    • @MamlamboFossils
      @MamlamboFossils  10 месяцев назад

      You just don't see the rocks I bring home with nothing in them 😂

  • @apemancommeth8087
    @apemancommeth8087 10 месяцев назад +1

    Why do they form the same shape despite the fossils being vastly different is shape?

    • @MamlamboFossils
      @MamlamboFossils  10 месяцев назад

      I think they start off roundish just by the shape of how the concretion forms, from a central point outwards. They then get further rounded by the waves rolling them around on the beach.

  • @HB_cubing
    @HB_cubing 10 месяцев назад

    where is this beach

    • @MamlamboFossils
      @MamlamboFossils  10 месяцев назад

      South Island!

    • @HB_cubing
      @HB_cubing 10 месяцев назад

      where rufly in the south island@@MamlamboFossils

    • @MamlamboFossils
      @MamlamboFossils  10 месяцев назад

      @HB_cubing email me and I'll send you some spots mamlambofossils@gmail.com

  • @barkingmouse8152
    @barkingmouse8152 10 месяцев назад +1

    Get a B-I-I-I-I-I-I-G handcart. :P

  • @MrDuffy81
    @MrDuffy81 10 месяцев назад +1

    LOCHNESS MUMMY

  • @jackienelson5804
    @jackienelson5804 9 месяцев назад

    Love your show but never get any answers LEMAY NELSON VANCOUVER WASHINGTON NORTH WEST PACIFIC COAST USA