Incredible Discovery: Saber Tooth Tiger Or American Lion Fossil Unearthed In Cave!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2024
- Come along with us as we visit a very special cave here in Tennessee. This cave is located in a massive valley where Pleistocene (Ice Age) animals such as Mastodon and Saber Tooth Tigers once roamed. We know this as there have not only been bones found in the cave we are visiting in this video but a large Mastodon molar was also uncovered in a cave nearby on the same ridge years back.
After we checked out the bones, we also climbed up and inspected some ropes we replaced in this cave last fall, • Bolt Climbing in a Cave! .
A few years back, our friend Harold found a pit on the other side of the ridge that we later connected to this same cave. Here is the link to the video where we surveyed it, • Surveying a horror hol... .
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It certainly looks like a large Panthera atrox. The Smilodon was smaller and like a jaguar.
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Gracilis was like a jaguar, fatalis was over 600 pounds, both were native to that area.
Ain't it good to be alive and to live in Tennessee!
Most definitely! I love it here. So much to see and do
Love your vids, so very well done. This was great seeing the bones. Terrific experience for this sensible and polite young man.
Thank you. I appreciate the comments too ☺️. We love encouraging the youth to explore caves.
Wow, that was awesome. My favorite part of it though, if I were there, would be the walking ... LOL ... My inquisitive side would would want a paleontologist to go down with you and maybe do a partial excavation for identification but leave the bones in situ. I really appreciate the lengths you go to to not damage the cave. I don't think the geology is such, but do you ever find agates down there? What is considered "proper cave etiquette" for picking things up and taking them home? I'm not a caver so I get to ask the dumb questions. LOL The beauty you get to enjoy is amazing and the education for Brody (?) is priceless. Keep the adventures coming.
The only bad thing about paleontologist is they typically do not go caving, LOL so it's hard to get one down there to see them. From looking at the bones, they seem too frail to be excavated but honestly, I think it's great to see them in the cave as they are. We do not get agates in the caves are they are formed in limestone. There are some agates you can find on the surface but not many here in this region. As far as removing things from caves, we do not do that as our motto is take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints. Thank you for commenting and watching along, it is much apprecitated.
@@tag_caver Thank you.
I loved the shark tooth too, maybe a Sandtiger Shark (Carcharias)? Not sure, I'm definitely not a shark tooth aficionado so don't quote me on that. Also loved seeing the bones in situ I'm sure they're so fragile they couldn't be moved. The coral was just fabulous! So appreciate being able to see things since I'll never be able to go in person--thank you so much for taking us along!
Thank you. I need to look up the sharks tooth. The Petalodus ones are easy to remember!
It's a Saivodos stratus -- theyre super common in our geology but the big ones are always worth boting.
These teeth are about 300myo., by the way (Monteagle and Bangor limestone).
That's a really cool cave. It might be worth excavating the bones and preserving them. There might be enough there to put the cat skeleton together, and maybe other critters too. If there was a place animals were falling in or being brought in there could be a lot buried in there. I wouldn't be shocked if there are ancient human remains somewhere in that cave. Are there signs of natives using it?
No signs of natives here. We believe it died here and maybe there was another nearby entrance where it would have come in.
Great trip!!! I imagine we’ve all missed our knee pads! 😂
Yea kinda sucks without them 😂
Thanks for the adventure
thank you
Really cool video!
Thanks!
Wow, that cave was intense! Do you use the frog style of ascending? I never got deep enough into vertical stuff to get a rope walker set up but alot of friends used them to bounce pits with. Great filming and lighting!
Thank you. Yes, we are using my frog climbing systems. I will use a rope walker for the deep pits though!
I wouldn't make it far. The first smaller rock piles would have me looking for agate/jasper to bring home and tumble. 🤣
Oh I am a rock lover too but unfortunately, we don't get things like agate and jasper in our caves here. They are limestone. We do get fossils like shark teeth though!
That is so cool!! Thanks for sharing!!
Really wanted to watch this but I'll be damned if I'll watch the commercials every 30 seconds. TH-cam is really getting greedy.
I typically notice only a few of the click ads on a video when I watch it. I am sorry they are putting so many.
So many caves Ive seen packed with sediment at some point that are washing open. I suspect the sedimentation is related to runoff from retreating glaciation. Anyone ever study the ages of the infill to see if there’s any commonality?
I am not aware of any studies but that would be pretty awesome to know about. The NSS Convention is in Sewanee this year, which is only about 20 miles from is! We will be attending so I might ask a few folks if anything has been published.