Fossil hunting in a New Zealand river
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- Join me for a hunt for Miocene and Cretaceous age fossils in a river in North Canterbury, New Zealand. I find some pretty cool fossils and rocks - maybe even an agate or two.
Some amazing Plesiosaurs have been found here before and I have found some nice Cetacean fossils here as well.
Fantails are very clever. They used to follow in the footsteps of the moa because that used to move rocks and flick up dirt. Fantails would then see whether there are any bugs to eat. This is why they follow us humans, smart birds they are :)
Hi Riki! I didn't know that about the fantails and Moa 😁 it does make sense! Thanks for the info and for watching! I'm running a giveaway at the moment on my latest video if you want to enter!
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I'm in love with your little fantail buddies! They are absolutely adorable.
Beautiful rocks. I am so glad you picked them up. I know you’re a fossil guy...but who could ignore such wonderful stones.😀😀
I know right
I love rocks! These videos are so satisfying to watch :)
Glad you are enjoying them!
Ditto❣
You know you're enjoying yourself when you can't remember why you brought a rock back. We have a great deal of quartz where I live in Canada. Most of it is glaciation deposit. Some of the quartz boulders are the size of a refrigerator. Thanks for sharing!
Instill have this rock in my garden 😁
Giant New Zealand earwig - Anisolabis littorea.
Thanks for the info! Always good to know the species 😁
A bug that long ago existed living in the ancient coal age forests or ones that had been so damp and so wet like a swampy place . Earwigs then were there once too from fact found as fossils elsewhere and as cockroaches and dragonflies were big sizes .
The fantail is adorable! I have now finished binging both of your channels. I consider myself an official armchair fossil and rock hunter now. Thanks for being my instructor! I look forward to more of your adventures.
Total noob enjoying your field and prep vids, very informative. I realize now I've been casually looking at "interesting rocks" for over 50 years without recognizing what they were.
BTW - The scorpion thing was an "earwig", it's a common creepy-crawly here in Melbourne, they like a very damp environment.
Earwigs are ancient lived in the coal age forests . So they are kind of common today alive ,but ancient insect . It's cool you're looking at a bug that seen extinct plants all around it's kind way back . They like dampness since ancient coal forests were so damp and wet or moist . A watery world.
Fossilized mushroom! Cool. That bug thing looks like a variation of what we call earwigs...
Those look like the Saint Helena Earwig!
Creepy little things aren't they?!
That peculiar looking bug was an earwig by the looks of it.
I like that fantail bird. Maybe looking for you to stir up insects and worms to eat.
I have learned a lot from your videos. And your smile makes it apparent you really like what you do.
Bug under the rock is a stonefly nymph - favorite food of those monster brown trout you guys have over there
Those big browns are such beasts! Like submarines 😀
Bro that shell puzzle you left for someone was epic
It was a pretty cool piece!
The rock with a hole in it looked like a māhē.. a rock sinker used by Māori. If so it's an artifact
After looking online I think you right O.O
Spider runs home and tells his friends how he finally caught a human.
The donut shape rock is an ancient anchor
Try looking at the fossils under a black light. It might reveal some interesting patterns and colors.
Hi Gina, I'll do that! Thanks for the suggestion 😄
@@MamlamboFossils I picked up one of those little pocket 60x microscopes that have both traditional LEDs and a UV LED. They can make some of the minerals really glow.
@@turtlefoot13 sounds exactly like what I need 😁
that scorpion looking thing is an earwig "not venomous"
Thanks for the ID Stanley! Hope you enjoyed the video.
the scorpion looking insect is an Earwig. we have a ton of them here in ontario
Thanks for the ID!
I love the little fantails they are so friendly, I don't know if you have feral cats in New Zealand but tragically, fantails seem to fall easy prey to them in Australia.
Consequently because I live in a rural area feral cats and foxes are top of my pest species eradication list!
It's not always about finding fossils, is it? Well at least you found some cool rocks, a spider, and that god awful earwig. I hate those buggers. Getting to walk around in nature is the best reward!
Yeah, that earwig was creepy! Sometimes it is, like you say, just good to be out and about 😄
Fantails!
I love fantails . As children we’d sit by the river near our house and rub a wet cork (I think we wet it ) on a bottle to attract them . They’d flock about with their wonderful aerobatics . Great video once more thank you .looks as if you could use a nice pair of plastic sandals for all that paddling .
You're right! I should look at getting some sandals, love the tip about attracting fantails - I'm going to have to give it a go!
We call the rocks with holes Hag Stones, from Texas
I've heard them call that as well!
Some really lovely jasper/chert/agates there. Good scores. The rather intimidating looking insect who was obviously not pleased to see you was an earwig I believe.
Thanks Hamish! I've cut and polished some jasper from that river since then and they come out beautifully! A very distinctive yellow in most of them.
@@MamlamboFossils Excellent - were you thinking of doing a follow-up posting? I think people would be interested in seeing them.
@@Paleos1000 I will add some updates in my newer videos at the end 😁
The fantail must watch your channel! 😂
How crazy I had a friendly fantail flying a few inches from me today, he's a young one his parents also hang around my house :)
They are so friendly!
Cool place, that huge one looks like what I been trying to find here in California, a nice round Jasper, swirled with quartz. I find them, but never so smooth and round to work with, so far just jagged and with crud mixed in lol. Yours looks like it will clean nicely, polish and maybe a cut. Let us know what you did with it and show us how it looks, if you would please. That bug is an earwig btw, I bet in New Zealand you get some pretty cool insects, birds, reptiles and animals too on your hikes. Ever bring a pick and shovel to hit that shell bed cliff area? There is a place in Florida, middle of nowhere and a dried up sea area, its called Rucks Pit, give it a search on YT and see the awesome calcite clamshells and such; amazing what nature can do. Thank you, Chris
Hi Chris, the jasper is still in my garden. I haven't done anything with it yet. I think it will polish quite nicely, I might send it away to have that done one day 😄 I will have to go check out those cliffs a bit, I haven't been that way in a while. Found some awesome whale bone there not too long ago. Keep well!
9:48 thats a mammal vertebrae mate.
Thanks for the info! I'll go check it out :)
@@MamlamboFossils Im pretty envious of your location there mate, if you had access to an X-ray im sure the results oon some of the "rocks" would be very interesting!
The fantails actually stay near people in hopes they they will dig up bugs and worms for them to eat
I always try and shake the bushes near me to give them some bugs to chase :)
Gosto demais de rochas diferentes e fósseis, não sei te dizer de onde vem essa minha paixão por tudo que é feito de rochas.
Parabéns pelo video!
Are you German? love the accent. interesting to stumble across this today. greetings from Napier. I picked up a few SI rocks on my summer holiday, need to identify them!
Is this up the Waipara river? lots of cool formations there. I saw boulders similar to Moeraki boulders there. Awesome area!
It's one of the rivers in Canterbury, it might have been one of the smaller rivers emptying into the Waipara 😁
the thumbnail looks like a delicious BBQ-sauce glazed pork shoulder
Great job bro
Those fantails are so adorable, I wonder if they are being fed by someone or if they see you flipping rocks over so they can eat the bugs that where under the rocks? Birds are that smart.
They're busy eating the bugs that I disturb 😁 one theory is that they followed moa around as well!
@@MamlamboFossils that's really Amazing! I am from New mexico and as I am sure you know it's the southwest Of the states. We have this bird that stick little horny toads and lizards on the agave century plants that are native plants here. They use the spikes to kill their prey, like the bird will stab them into the spikes of this really sharp spike points of the century plant. For the longest time I thought that lizards and horned lizards where just very unlucky. Until I saw a bird press a horny road right through the tip of the plants spikes! I thought it was so mean and brutal but they got to eat to!
I live in California ,so your fan tail bird is also interesting .
Hi Dena, they are such friendly birds as well! They are always flitting about, not shy at all! Thanks for watching and commenting, hi in Cali!
Reminds me of a kildeer'. Trying to lure him away from its nest in the rocks.
@@MamlamboFossils hoping you turn up some insects or something.
Have you ever found any pounamu?, love your videos, am right there with you as you search.
I've never found any, maybe if I went to the west coast beaches? Glad you're enjoying the videos!
I've found some shore bed at least 10 ks in land it's so cool, one time I was traping along a river and met a guy that was looking for agit and wow that was for for about 3 days and at night when I shit my eyes all I could see was stones hahaha... I love your videos.. great work
That's awesome! There might be some shark teeth around there!
@@MamlamboFossils well after finding your channel and watching a few of your videos im only now thinking of looking for them too haha. I get real excited finding deer antlers, skulls, and cool as rocks.....
I enjoy your vids very much looks so fun and I really enjoy the prepping of fossils. I'd really like to see you prep whale fossils and learn how you interact with museum on some of your finds...
I would have gotten the rock with the hole in it-that bug was just a pissed off earwig,where I come from.They are a dime a dozen!
Thanks Debbie! I seem to find quite a few rocks with holes in it. I wonder if those earwigs bite 😄
I think it's a Devils coach horse,I may be wrong,look them up they do look familiar
It looked like an earwig or something related
Thanks for the info!
Amazing places....
New Zealand really is a beautiful place!
I am really enjoying your videos. A New Zealand river in the fog; it really looks magical out there. The creeks and rivers here in the Ozarks in Missouri look very similar to your rivers. The surrounding landscape is a bit different, and is so beautiful. Thanks for these videos!
Thanks Doug! I've always wanted to visit the Ozarks, just the name sounds like adventure 😁 I've seen some TV shows based there and it also looks beautiful!
@@MamlamboFossils If you like outdoor adventure, the Ozarks is a place to visit for sure! I have lived in many parts of the United States and visited many other parts and I don't see me moving anywhere else. I love it here. So much beauty and wildlife, even in my back yard (I live way out in the woods).
@@turtlefoot13 Sounds amazing! Any bears where you are?
@@MamlamboFossils Yes, the Black Bear. I am far enough out in the forest that they have used my driveway for a litter box. I have ran into them in the wild 6-7 times over the last few years with no problems. Black bears are actually pretty timid animals and will run if given a chance, unless their cubs are involved. I am more concerned if I see a raccoon or skunk during the day as there is a chance they might have rabies. With black bears in the Ozarks, there is really very little danger, if you pay attention to your surroundings and you know what to do if you encounter one.
@@turtlefoot13 Compared to the States, New Zealand has very little dangerous creatures! No snakes even and certainly no big mammals. The most dangerous thing over here is probably a seal. Take care with those bears, skunks and raccoons! 😃
Looks like a big heart lol❤❤❤❤👍👍👍✌
It does! Thanks for watching Michael :)
Great bird 👍🎅👍
Thanks Richard! 😀 The fantails are so friendly over here, they love hanging out with me because I chase all the bugs into the air for them to catch.
Thx for the info about this bird, working together thats what nature really is about 👍🎅👍
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Spider: Can you please put down my rock?
58 there was a fossil in that rock of a leaf
I'll have to go back and find it. I know exactly where it is. Thanks!
No, if you pause at 58 and look carefully, it is a small plant.
looks like a green plant growing in between the two rocks.
Can I ask what river you are at as we are over that way next year and would love to have a look, thanks
Hi Ragnar - it's the Waipara river. Message me on instagram at mamlambo_nz for a more exact spot :)
Mamlambo thank you very much , i will do 👍
For a moment there I thought you were in Mad Max
Have you ever tried to use a tile saw or water cooled saw to cut the rocks in half?
I have but I need to spend some more time on it to get better results.
Damn, that cover shot looks like fossilised bacon, lol
Oh man, now I want bacon 😁 it does look like it 😀
@@MamlamboFossils ha ha, sorry to upset your appitite, lol, my first glance at that agate and for a second I genuinely thought I was seeing bacon, lol(Andrew)p. s. New Zealand looks like an incredible place for fossil hunting as well as its breathtaking scenery,
Hi there, I absolutely love your videos. Nothing like them on TH-cam so thank you. Is there anyway we could talk so I could ask about hunting sites? I'm totally new at this. thanks so much
Hiya James, sorry only saw this comment now. Add me on Instagram @mamlambo_nz to chat.
instagram.com/mamlambofossils just an update to this comment in case anyone else was looking for the insta details 🤙🏼
7:40 to 7:46 there is a water snake!!
No snakes in New Zealand, only eels 😃
@@MamlamboFossils yes, I detected it😎
Nice to feed the eels as well I like them
Incrível seus achados!
Obrigado!! Thanks for watching!
That red and white rock is beautiful, possibly red jasper and white quartz? Do you have any trilobite-bearing beds near enough to hunt? Just love trilobites and ammonites, but bivalves are cool too. We have a collecting area nearby that has great jumbles of bivalve and crinoids, but the rock it's in is very fragile, so it's difficult to get entire specimens. I do have several nice plates of fossil worm tunnels, and conversely, the rock it's in is so hard it's very difficult to prepare with the simple tools I have. Anyway, I love watching you hunt fossils on the beach and along the stony brook. Much love from south-central US!
I think you're right about the Jasper with white quartz! Still haven't cut it, I need to take it to someone with a big enough saw. We have trilobites north of where I am, probably a 3 or 4 hour drive, I must really go and have a look at them. Thanks for your kind words, glad you're enjoying the videos! Great to hear from people all across the world 😄
@@MamlamboFossils I'm newly subscribed, and love fossil/rock videos from other countries than the US. Used to do a lot of fossil and rock/crystal hunting, but am profoundly disabled now, so I now pretty much do my collecting "online", as it were. I'd eagerly await a trilobite hunt! Thank you!
@@Doxymeister Thanks for subscribing! Sorry to hear you can't collect yourself anymore, I will definitely try and get to a trilobite area! Hopefully I find one when I'm out there!
@@Doxymeister know the frustration you're feeling only too well my friend, I used to love a good day fossil hunting but like yourself I am no longer fit enough, I can still walk but bending and kneeling just hurt too much and I have a serious lack of stamina since I almost died from botulism poisoning, never been right since, tire ridiculously quickly and take blackouts due to low blood pressure, its such a downer not being able to do the stuff I enjoy, all the best (Andrew not doreen orr)
@@doreenorr6435 Sorry to hear that, Andrew. I know one other person who suffered through a bout of botulism poisoning, the teenage daughter of a co-worker. He was off work over 7 months caring for her. In the good old days, I almost never took off work sick or took personal time off and had a ridiculous amount saved up; all of us in our department pitched-in and donated our excess sick or personal days to him, so he would have some pay during his time off work. Very fortunate that our employer had this policy. Anyway, she became paralyzed and was on a ventilator for nearly a month, then was several months learning to do everyday things again. I have much respect for you, overcoming this illness, and will pray for you to continue to improve!
Are those agates sedimentary, metamorphic or igneous?
I easily envisaged minerals heated to plasticity then combining due to some subterranean perturbation and producing that pattern, a bit like the mixing for a marble cake.
hi do you have any advice for finding flint or chert or anything for knapping?
@8:51 the rock you are holding and to the bottom right of the one you are holding looks like gold in it
Hi Montney! It does look like it, it's somewhere in my garden so I will go give it a closer inspection 😄
Hallo i am Grace from Holland.
Love stone . And from so far away i love it. I dond have film my work . I
I love to do everyting wit my stone like agat and stone i make hanger i love to do tumberling to .
Hi Grace! Thanks for messaging, I've ordered a tumbler - hope to have it soon :)
1:41 you missed the picture off a person on that rock
I went back and checked, it does look like a picture of a person 😄 Thanks!
Allways nice to get outdoors . Looks to be a decent agate/jasper field . What did you call the one stone , a storm agate? what is a storm agate . Thx for sharing and good luck on your next hunt
I'm not sure if storm agate means the same everywhere, but we use it to refer to an agate which is mostly jasper but with seams of agate chalcedony throughout it, like lightning strikes 😊
How do you cut your stones open?
is jasper worth anything?
It might be to some collectors, a piece like this not really
A actually really good place is marima demain just outside pahiatua, New Zealand! My poppa went there when he was younger with his family and his brother found a rare fossil! He is now a doctor in Auckland. Anyways my poppa brought me there and the first time we found 2 fossils! Last time we found heaps! We have lots now :)
Edit:you need to look for sandstone, sandstone is a type of rock that makes a thud when you smash it against another rock :]
Great video👌
Thanks Jacob! Got some more crab ones coming as well :)
Ok thx. Looking forward to seeing them.
Hi was this near Amberley beach end
Yeah, it was the beach end of SH1. Have you been down that way? And if you have, have you found much?
Not that stream mere Amberley is it?
I think it's the same one. The one north of it.
You got a hunk of petrified muscle or tissue. Looks like a ribeye.
red rock is fine. good.
Thanks Full House 😁
The bug on rock with hole it it is a earwig lol rather big one lol
And creepy! 😄 Thanks for IDing it for me!
They hurt when bite lol glad u didn’t f with it too much lol
Also I am in Australia on east coast where would I try to find fossils like this. Where there rivers in mountains of find rocky part on beach most our beaches are white sand lol not like NZ rocky beaches lol 😂
@@JacobSchutz-xc3gb I have lots of respects for creepy insects 😄
you need a u.v. light...
I've tried an UV light a few times to find agates. Not as effective as I hoped! 😁
What is the name of the river???
This was one of the North Canterbury rivers, I think it was near the Waipara river mouth.
@@MamlamboFossils Cool, thanks
OMG! Even in a remote New Zealand riverbank, you can't escape zombies driving 4-wheelers(!) Well, as long as they keep their ass on the bank & shore. Here in Missouri if you get caught parking in or crossing a river with a gas-powered vehicle it's a fine of $250 per tire. Those that won't police themselves (duh, flushing out their oil & crankcases in pristine river systems - because they got into deep water...drunk & stupid!) must be policed!
That's quite a find! But makes sense if you think about the oil that would end up in the river. I saw a truck completely upside down and covered in sand before, someone didn't realise that the river banks move around here!
I live in New Zealand 😐😐😐😐
Nice! It's such a beautiful country
I believe you would do much better if you showed more fossils being removed from the rocks, and a bit less of rock gathering. People look at the rocks and wonder what's inside.
I started doing that in my later videos. When I started out I didn't know how to prepare the fossils and I didn't have the right tools.