When I was a kid I went on a family trip to an island in Florida. There were sooo many shark teeth all around the beach. We brought about 150 home and the container we put them in was absolutely rancid!
I grew up in Florida; most of what you are finding are more recent. If you want to find the old stuff, do what I used to do: drive a bit further north into southern Alabama and Georgia and try some trails in parks near areas that used to be wetter in the past. Some of the trails run along old creeks, rivers, and shoreline remnants. I have jars of shark and ray teeth as well as various snail shells, corals, and some bone fragments that are in the 10-15 million year old range. However, get inside some of the karst formations and you can find things embedded in the limestone. If you like early echinoderms you'll be set.
@@lissi6931 You'll find lots of dogfish shark teeth. Maybe even a dogfish washed up on shore. They are small but very common on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Try St. George Island or the western end of Pensacola Beach where the fort is. There are wide areas of beach that get tidal pools and lots of tiny neat things get washed up. It'll be hands and knees time but it can be worth it.
Very nice finds! I did a little shark tooth hunting myself earlier this summer on the opposite side of the Atlantic; hopefully we'll both find our _Otodus_ next year! Also, I know this is a fossil hunting video but I just wanna point out that there's some gull wildness going on in the background at 20:40
I have extended family that live along the coast of North Carolina and as a kid I would look for fossils in their driveway... out there they would use the spoil tellings from the phosphate mines there are driveway and road gravel. All of that gravel was deposited in Miocene/Pliocece it was full of shark, ray, fish, mollusk and whale bones. I have the inner ear bones of whales abd several fossil great white teeth along with sand tiger, crow ect. It's really cool.
Just be glad we've got a mild summer for a change. We've had many hot and dry summers in recent years, to everyone's detriment. And, I fear, more are to come. Take your blessings as you can get them. I, for one, have never before enjoyed July weather as well as this year.
@@BenGThomas it's a tiny town that my family currently lives in xD if you do travel there, let me know and I'll find out the beaches that haven't been overly fished out by the tourists :3
Your biggest tooth is Striatolamia macrota. They got extremely large in the Eocene and then disappeared (extinct). An unworn one will have fine striations near the root on the lingual (rounded) side. The largest one I have seen was 3 inches (76mm). The tooth just prior to that is Brachycarcharias lerichei, you can tell by the triangular lateral cusplets. The large square bone is probably part of a turtle shell, its hard to be 100% sure from your video but that is what it looks like. It is not a ray.
Fascinating! Great finds! If you want Eocene weather I invite you to the south in America now or in August. Or Nevada and Southern California, Texas right now.
I used to find tons of shark teeth on Venice Beach, Florida !!! Weird that they wash up there but not at the beach right next to it called Nokomis Beach.
Are you allowed to dig and sift at that beach? Or is it scavange only? Ah, so you can sift, but doesnt look like you can do more than a tiny bit at a time.
I'm returning home from an unsuccessful trip of searching for shark teeth on the beach, too bad I didn't look at my subscriptions because this would have been perfect
Oooooo! Summer in the British Isles! Warm... NOT! Sunshine!... NOT! Relaxing at the beach... NOT! Ah, well, let's find some shark teeth to make up for it. Thanks, Ben. It's still fun.
And to answer your question at the end. Sharks should NOT be kept in captivity on Saturday. Sunday and Monday are fine. Tuesday and Thursday never. Wednesday... that's debatable. And Friday, sure, why not!
One of the most boring and tragic fossil hunting videos I have ever seen. It's crazy how trained paleo students in the UK have often found sweet FA. Bizarre!
The boneheads crew is such a perfect name. It's like the name sits right into the socket lol 🦴 (crazy how the weather is there when it's stupid hot here in NW Oregon) i miss weather like your's
Looking for shark teeth on a sunny British day I see
I need a shirt with Ben saying "Please send me back to the Eocene."
Yes please to more 'field trips.
The fossil hunt videos are my favorite content from you guys
When I was a kid I went on a family trip to an island in Florida. There were sooo many shark teeth all around the beach. We brought about 150 home and the container we put them in was absolutely rancid!
I grew up in Florida; most of what you are finding are more recent. If you want to find the old stuff, do what I used to do: drive a bit further north into southern Alabama and Georgia and try some trails in parks near areas that used to be wetter in the past. Some of the trails run along old creeks, rivers, and shoreline remnants. I have jars of shark and ray teeth as well as various snail shells, corals, and some bone fragments that are in the 10-15 million year old range.
However, get inside some of the karst formations and you can find things embedded in the limestone. If you like early echinoderms you'll be set.
Wow that’s awesome! I don’t think I ever found shark teeth on the beaches in Florida.
@@lissi6931 You'll find lots of dogfish shark teeth. Maybe even a dogfish washed up on shore. They are small but very common on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Try St. George Island or the western end of Pensacola Beach where the fort is. There are wide areas of beach that get tidal pools and lots of tiny neat things get washed up. It'll be hands and knees time but it can be worth it.
Very nice finds! I did a little shark tooth hunting myself earlier this summer on the opposite side of the Atlantic; hopefully we'll both find our _Otodus_ next year!
Also, I know this is a fossil hunting video but I just wanna point out that there's some gull wildness going on in the background at 20:40
Thank you so much for this, you guys are awesome!
I'm glad you enjoyed!
Quite a bounty on the second trip! Sharks and Rays smiling from so long ago! 🥰🤪😁😍🦈
Walking around Chicago yesterday with a heat index of 109°F, I wish I had your kind of summer!
The thing you guys are doing is my dream
This is brilliant. July. Beach.
Eosen epoch that's the time of otodus obliquus despite much smaller than megaladon they grew as big as an orca today
I have extended family that live along the coast of North Carolina and as a kid I would look for fossils in their driveway... out there they would use the spoil tellings from the phosphate mines there are driveway and road gravel. All of that gravel was deposited in Miocene/Pliocece it was full of shark, ray, fish, mollusk and whale bones. I have the inner ear bones of whales abd several fossil great white teeth along with sand tiger, crow ect. It's really cool.
Just be glad we've got a mild summer for a change. We've had many hot and dry summers in recent years, to everyone's detriment. And, I fear, more are to come. Take your blessings as you can get them. I, for one, have never before enjoyed July weather as well as this year.
This is something you can do super easily in Venice, Florida :3 you just scoop with a metal basket as on the shore.
I need to visit!
@@BenGThomas it's a tiny town that my family currently lives in xD if you do travel there, let me know and I'll find out the beaches that haven't been overly fished out by the tourists :3
Your biggest tooth is Striatolamia macrota. They got extremely large in the Eocene and then disappeared (extinct). An unworn one will have fine striations near the root on the lingual (rounded) side. The largest one I have seen was 3 inches (76mm). The tooth just prior to that is Brachycarcharias lerichei, you can tell by the triangular lateral cusplets. The large square bone is probably part of a turtle shell, its hard to be 100% sure from your video but that is what it looks like. It is not a ray.
Is that summer!???? Jesus. No wonder all the sharks are dead. 😂
Now you know why we're so miserable!
British summertime on the beach looks AMAZING🎶
When you're rockhounding, the weather can be either your best friend or a force to fight against.
Fascinating! Great finds! If you want Eocene weather I invite you to the south in America now or in August. Or Nevada and Southern California, Texas right now.
Of course not all of these areas are tropical but you get the idea.
this is the biggest W of a friend group
What a nice sunny summer day this is
Closeby in Switzerland i found an shark tooth from the upper Jurassic. I wonder how you differentiate at the beach from recent sharkteeth?
Recent teeth will be white or even translucent just like your teeth.
I liked the sarcasm at the beginning 😅
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I used to find tons of shark teeth on Venice Beach, Florida !!! Weird that they wash up there but not at the beach right next to it called Nokomis Beach.
Awesome hunt!
More fossil hunting
Bendiana Thomas and the Fantastic Fossils at the Beach of Inclement Weather.
Have you tried Walton on the Naze in Essex? I've found some nice things there.
I was just wondering about the unknown giants filter feeder sharks, they must have been and been massive if a whale shark is any indication
Should have gone to Wilmington NC instead, bigger shark’s teeth, better weather
Are you allowed to dig and sift at that beach? Or is it scavange only?
Ah, so you can sift, but doesnt look like you can do more than a tiny bit at a time.
So the fossils are coming out of the sediment just now? Or why are they not ground into dust?
They will shortly they are very recently exposed to the elements
How big would the shark attached to that biggest tooth have been?
Dont worry Ben, I love numulites
I'm returning home from an unsuccessful trip of searching for shark teeth on the beach, too bad I didn't look at my subscriptions because this would have been perfect
I do not believe sharks should be held in captivity on Saturday. It's the weekend, let them have some time off
oh hey it's my dad and I's old past time on the beach. searching for shark teeth.
In Florida you find them everywhere 👍🤙
awesome as always... you want warmth? I live in Las Vegas Iol
Oooooo! Summer in the British Isles!
Warm... NOT!
Sunshine!... NOT!
Relaxing at the beach... NOT!
Ah, well, let's find some shark teeth to make up for it.
Thanks, Ben. It's still fun.
A.
Trade offer:
Get sent back 45 million years.
Have to swim with Megalodon.
Megalodon was not that old
Megaladon isn't existed yet at that time
Shork
And to answer your question at the end.
Sharks should NOT be kept in captivity on Saturday. Sunday and Monday are fine.
Tuesday and Thursday never. Wednesday... that's debatable. And Friday, sure, why not!
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I find opening your mouth is the quickest way
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What happened to my comment? Took me ages to try and pass on info and advice, and now there's no trace?
One of the most boring and tragic fossil hunting videos I have ever seen. It's crazy how trained paleo students in the UK have often found sweet FA. Bizarre!
The boneheads crew is such a perfect name. It's like the name sits right into the socket lol 🦴 (crazy how the weather is there when it's stupid hot here in NW Oregon) i miss weather like your's