Rarest Discovery of 2019 Found Fossil Hunting in Florida | Florida Fossil Hunting Episode 11

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  • @DiggingScience
    @DiggingScience  4 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    2019 has been a good year for discovery, hoping 2020 brings even better and badder finds to share with you all!!!

    • @gregorymcwhorter1389
      @gregorymcwhorter1389 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Digging Science do you take people on paid excursions?

    • @SuperDave-vj9en
      @SuperDave-vj9en 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Damn, you guys are amazing! Other kids are out selling drugs and committing felonies, yet you guys have a keen interest in the scientific world. Thank you!

    • @DiggingScience
      @DiggingScience  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@gregorymcwhorter1389 we do paid walk in tours to the Peace River area. :) Digging only, you can message us on my Facebook page in the description for details.

    • @DiggingScience
      @DiggingScience  4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@SuperDave-vj9en Thank you! You can help keep us off the streets by becoming our first Patreon supporter. ;) www.patreon.com/diggingscience
      No pressure though and we look forward to seeing you back on the channel!

    • @mikelanoce3742
      @mikelanoce3742 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Where in Florida do you look?

  • @j.dragon651
    @j.dragon651 4 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    Unlike many of my generation, I have faith in our young ones, this helps.

    • @DiggingScience
      @DiggingScience  4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      We have a lot of keen interests and plenty of energy! Thank you!

    • @audreymuzingo933
      @audreymuzingo933 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      As a former high school teacher of kids who would now be called 'Millennials' I can assure you there is plenty of room for faith in them. The negative stereotypes are just a mix of older people being stereotypical "old farts," people who just resent youth because they're different, jealousy for their youth, as well as differences in political trends, and the fears of those differences. What's funny is how the people now called Baby Boomers were called Hippies in their youth, stereotyped as lazy, drug-abusing, immoral, etc. You would think they of all people would recognize that each Millennial either DOESN'T fit the stereotype, or if they do, they will likely change a lot over the course of their lives, just like Hippies did. If it's not clear by now, I'm talking about both groups as 'they' because I'm an X'er, which you don't hear referenced very often anymore, and which I rather enjoy. We're stealthy, lol.

    • @j.dragon651
      @j.dragon651 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@audreymuzingo933 Hippies were a very small minority. They cite the Woodstock concert as a testament to their strength in numbers. Still a very small minority. Most so called hippies were in fact nothing of the sort. I was born in 1952 and member of that culture. I remember the scorn and degradation we were put through. Elvis was the devil. Rock and Roll caused riots. Things never change. I look back on that and realize what is being said about the younger generation is just the same old same old.

    • @audreymuzingo933
      @audreymuzingo933 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      jerome dragun Yup!

    • @stupidhat1779
      @stupidhat1779 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@audreymuzingo933 we X'rs are stealthy, sometimes I think we maybe invisible lol

  • @itplop
    @itplop 4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    Your knowledge is INSANE! I can’t even tell the difference between a dog bone and a human bone 😂

    • @alexherebia2128
      @alexherebia2128 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      C Lopez was that necessary?

    • @BlGGESTBROTHER
      @BlGGESTBROTHER 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@alexherebia2128 Your mom jokes are always necessary.

    • @T2Exile
      @T2Exile 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      im highly skeptical about when he just picks up a little piece and just names it. theres no way u can just determine

  • @hawk7825
    @hawk7825 4 ปีที่แล้ว +124

    Florida’s eco system still looks like it was millions of years ago.

    • @fubarmofo6969
      @fubarmofo6969 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lmao millions of years... looks like we have another gullible sheep who believes the nonsense they were taught in school like evolution and earth being millions of years old. Lmfao when will ppl actually research stuff themselves and find actual truth instead of blindly believing scientists who spread the most ridiculous myths as facts when if ppl would just take the time to do a lil research they will find these myths have absolutely zero facts or evidence but countless evidence debunking these “stories and theories”
      World is full of sheeple

    • @alekiaho1304
      @alekiaho1304 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      FUBAR MOFO how old do you think the earth is?

    • @stoffelvlogs4306
      @stoffelvlogs4306 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      How do you know did you see it millions of years ago. Ya dingus

    • @hawk7825
      @hawk7825 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Stoffel Vlogs I am no dog master doofus but fossils tell the tale

    • @grahamgutierrez431
      @grahamgutierrez431 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@fubarmofo6969 lmao you probably think the Bible was a true story stfu

  • @strider5453
    @strider5453 4 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    In the early/mid ‘60s, in a pool where the Aucilla River broke the surface then disappeared back underground, my good friend Chaz, about 16 years old at the time, discovered a mastodon bone bed with too many skulls and tusks to count. Chaz brought Dr. Stanley John Olsen of the Florida Geological Survey for a look and the professor told him not to tell anybody about this…we’re going to call National Geographic Magazine. And so they came, set up a perimeter fence and several portable buildings and were able to extract ten complete mastodon skeletons. They packed everything up and were gone leaving hundreds of bones behind. Chaz was told he would get full recognition and his picture in the magazine. Well, he got no recognition but did get his picture in the magazine in full wet suit, hood and mask. It could have been anybody. He vowed if he ever found anything like that again Nat Geo would be the last people he would tell about it.
    For years Chaz’s father’s yard was littered with slowly decaying mastodon bones.

    • @babyrazor6887
      @babyrazor6887 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      yep I gots tons o stories bout museums F'n ppl over and I mean F'n with a capital A. As to your mastodon, unless you knew how to preserve it it just would have eventually dried out and continue to disintegrate into pieces. As a warning don't ever ever donate anything to a museum!

    • @RetroFan
      @RetroFan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Don't trust them. They didn't want you to tell anyone because that's how they lie and push their agenda.

    • @babyrazor6887
      @babyrazor6887 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@RetroFan I knew an old fella that had his dad civil war pistol. He donated it to the Frankford Arsenal Museum. Well that museum is no longer so where's his pistol?
      AND here's another. The Museum of the Rockies dumped 3 truckloads of DONATED Indian artifacts into a landfill because "they needed the space". Are you f'n me!!!

    • @ineedanewname9595944
      @ineedanewname9595944 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Wow! Nat geo sucks, huh?

    • @danielchristian5541
      @danielchristian5541 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The Smithsonian does the same shit

  • @carlstanland5333
    @carlstanland5333 4 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    My parents had a gravel driveway, and every few years he’d get a new dump truck load. I’d go out and collect shark teeth all day and with a flashlight at night. Good times.

    • @chronicawareness9986
      @chronicawareness9986 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      what kind of gravel? i always wondered if you could find things in gravel

    • @BlGGESTBROTHER
      @BlGGESTBROTHER 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@chronicawareness9986 Best to look for fossils in sedimentary rocks like limestone and sandstone. If you got river rocks your would get a nice mix of igneous and sedimentary rocks depending on where they are sourced from.

    • @diychad7268
      @diychad7268 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@BlGGESTBROTHER well since gravel is CaCo3 or calcite........also known as limestone......theres your sedimentary rock

    • @bebecatanzaro9362
      @bebecatanzaro9362 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      This channel is so cool! Your depth of knowledge is phenomenal, you must have had a great education!

  • @Superduper666
    @Superduper666 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Oof, how many fossils have I walked over not knowing they were there? Fossils are so cool.

  • @Perfectionseeker1967
    @Perfectionseeker1967 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    5:48 Plecostomus (Pleco) are very commonly used in fresh water aquariums to reduce algae build up. 15:23 And that's exactly why I stay out of the water down there!
    Great video! You're a brave man! Good luck, and stay weary!

    • @BlGGESTBROTHER
      @BlGGESTBROTHER 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Gators in the water is a big NOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPPPPEEEEEEEEEEEEE for me lol

  • @MegaMastiffman
    @MegaMastiffman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Bright idea getting rid of the light bulb good on you bro

  • @CharlieTalmadge
    @CharlieTalmadge 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Great stuff... Just found this channel.... Grew up drawn to this sort of stuff, having a Mother who's an Archeologist/Anthropologist.

  • @ghostravenXX
    @ghostravenXX 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    What an awesome hunt . Very cool finds and I love your attitude towards history , nature and science . I hope you have chosen a career in one of the sciences as I think you would do well . Take care and thx for sharing

    • @DiggingScience
      @DiggingScience  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you! We hope to do Science education full time in the future! Super glad you enjoyed this! Stay tuned for more!

  • @WHOMEWHOYOU
    @WHOMEWHOYOU 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Clicked on by Mistake but quickly got excited along with you as you kept finding more & more Neat Fossils. so ended up watching the entire Video. Had some fun with you, so big Thumbs Up & will be back to Dig Some Science.

    • @DiggingScience
      @DiggingScience  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      We dig it! Can't wait to see you back on the channel in future videos!

  • @ladybluegrass4173
    @ladybluegrass4173 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    The creeks are so filthy around here there's no way I'd be able to do that but I'd love to try it there. I wish people cared more about preserving nature.

    • @DiggingScience
      @DiggingScience  4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Agreed Denise, I have scouted some creeks before that made my stomach curdle :(

  • @Janettemay64
    @Janettemay64 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    The tooth, the whole tooth and nothing but the tooth . Love your channel.

  • @jrwoodsy
    @jrwoodsy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great channel, I wish we could do this stuff in Australia, but if your in a creek there's sharks, crocs, snakes etc sometimes all in the 1 creek!

  • @sallymay3643
    @sallymay3643 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Iam impressed with yr knowledge of bones teeth & fossils. I like watching yr adventures.

  • @MS-uj5ui
    @MS-uj5ui 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Love how excited y’all get while still underwater. 😂 I am currently living in NC and find lots of fossils on the beach but it would be amazing to go inland to all the creeks.

  • @ineedanewname9595944
    @ineedanewname9595944 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Gosh! I hate that I'm not out there looking for fossils! So jealous! Thank you for sharing all your adventures!!!

  • @dalealyea6019
    @dalealyea6019 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    An excellent video. Thanks for taking me along on your exploration.

    • @DiggingScience
      @DiggingScience  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      So glad you could join us! Stay tuned for more adventures!

  • @MissPennyhapenny
    @MissPennyhapenny 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Fantastic finds and I love that you know what they all are!
    Have just liked and subscribed. Looking forward to more great videos!😍
    Think you need a heated wet suit too!😵

    • @DiggingScience
      @DiggingScience  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank you so much for the support! I cant wait to see you in the comments on future videos!

  • @Lylo-mj8ek
    @Lylo-mj8ek 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Have you Gentleman ever been attacked while on your adventures? Glad I found this channel. Peace.

    • @DiggingScience
      @DiggingScience  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      We are glad you found us as well! We have not, except one time a snake did bite our camera while we were filming. It happened in one of our earliest episodes: "We Found a Mastodon Jaw While Fighting off Snakes and Gators | Florida Fossil Hunting Episode 01"

  • @rknissel
    @rknissel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Just came across your channel due to good ole U tube, thoroughly enjoying watching your hunts. Amazed at your knowledge of the finds, and it's great that you explain to us what the finds are and what they came from ! ! ! subscribed and following, now git on wit da hunt !

    • @DiggingScience
      @DiggingScience  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      We are so glad you found us! And We will. We would be in the water every day if we could! Look out for a new video from us this weekend. Hope to see you in the comments!

  • @baronvonbarbeque
    @baronvonbarbeque 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm super stoked your channel showed up in my feed!

  • @jobgh8056
    @jobgh8056 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Insane finds!!!

  • @user-oi8vy4py6d
    @user-oi8vy4py6d 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you! Respect from Russia🇷🇺

  • @TheSilmarillian
    @TheSilmarillian 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great upload hello from Lightning Ridge Australia we have some good fossil areas here more so when its opalised fossil though that is rare

  • @janethuffman5280
    @janethuffman5280 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What awesome finds! Its so nice to see history being saved. Great job!!!!

  • @k8eekatt
    @k8eekatt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You have amazing knowledge of the various bones! Thanks for sharing the adventure.

  • @KindCountsDeb3773
    @KindCountsDeb3773 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great job, impressive knowledge of the fossils. OH, I was born/raised in Fla and the area you were in is Gorgeous. For me, that's the REAL Florida. I miss it.

    • @debrataylor1813
      @debrataylor1813 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @deborah lariscy you are so right. Real Florida!! People think beaches and Disney. Ruined us

  • @FortunaZKat
    @FortunaZKat 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    In Florida all you have to do is look in people's shell driveways to find some of this stuff. Pieces of shark and horse teeth are common.

  • @ChaserJonDoe
    @ChaserJonDoe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thise are some beautiful finds. Wish I could find something besides crinoid stems and clam shells around here.

  • @ssndisteele3521
    @ssndisteele3521 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is incredible stuff! ! Love watching...I can't wait to go exploring. ..thanks again..keep it comin.

  • @ineedanewname9595944
    @ineedanewname9595944 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    First time finding you guys. I love it! As a very little girl, I would find fossilized sea biscuits in the ditches around our house in Lowndes Co, GA. Moved to Savannah and found shark teeth on Tybee Is. Now in McIntosh county, but no finds yet. Love what you do. Let me know if I can help!

    • @DiggingScience
      @DiggingScience  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks for the support! It is such an addicting passion! Hope to see your comments in future videos!

    • @ineedanewname9595944
      @ineedanewname9595944 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Still loving you guys to death!!! Soooo jealous!

  • @conniechamberlain1259
    @conniechamberlain1259 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Your videos are the best I've seen yet. This is Oct 1 2020.

    • @DiggingScience
      @DiggingScience  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you so much. We are really passionate about what we do. We hope you continue to enjoy our fossil hunting adventures!

  • @erichaskell
    @erichaskell 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Fossilized shark teeth may be found on the beaches on the west coast of Florida. They stick out because they are black, frequency is such that you rarely look up so focused on the sand you become.

  • @jayniestanley4730
    @jayniestanley4730 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Johnathan, thank u for cleaning up after these pigs. That's such a wonderful thing to do. Ur a fine young man. Thank u for all that u do to teach us about history.

  • @Tatorhead1234
    @Tatorhead1234 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Can you guys do a video on how the fossils get to the areas that you are searching in, and how you find those areas?

  • @grendelgrendelsson5493
    @grendelgrendelsson5493 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    An absolutely great video. I'm so glad I found this channel and Dig Dive Discover. An awful lot of my fossil finds have been Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous and I am extremely jealous of your mammal bones! My kids and me fossil hunt all over England, Wales and Scotland. My son took some photographs of a fossilised giant centipede track on the Isle of Arran when he was on a field trip from University. Enough of my ramblings!! I'm off to watch all of your videos and Dig Dive Discover!!

    • @DiggingScience
      @DiggingScience  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you so much Grendel, this kind of support is huge to us! If you want to help us make more videos, consider becoming a patreon supporter at www.patreon.com/diggingscience. But, there is absolutely no pressure to do so. I cannot wait to share more with you!

  • @hollyodii5969
    @hollyodii5969 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Wow! You rescued science!

    • @DiggingScience
      @DiggingScience  4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      There are so many things that we have discovered that would have been destroyed, but most of the time these fossils don't survive. So so many broken fossils are found by us every year.

  • @Cochetopa
    @Cochetopa 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    All I have ever found was wolf, Ostrich, Bison, horse, one hump camel, rhino and varmint fossils and none of them bigger than a couple inches. The wolf fossil was most of a lower jaw in pieces. And tons of pine-cone fossils and petrified wood here in beautiful CO!!!! Congrats on your finds Guys!!

  • @RockHunterMark
    @RockHunterMark 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    first video I watched all the way through, super cool you guys

    • @DiggingScience
      @DiggingScience  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks so much for the support. Hope we can make more that you enjoy!

  • @KellyfromMemphis
    @KellyfromMemphis 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am pleased on how clean the river is...just finding that old school lightbulb is awesome!

  • @sharonmiller8132
    @sharonmiller8132 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I have enjoyed watching you find all the amazing finds, keep it up, would like to see way more awesome finds. 3 thumbs up.

  • @shannonmcmahon3389
    @shannonmcmahon3389 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Just discovering your channel now. I'm in FL and I CANNOT believe you go into some of those river spaces! OMG - ALLIGATORS!!!! Your knowledge is awesome, but plz be careful!

    • @DiggingScience
      @DiggingScience  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you for joining us on the channel. We try our best to be safe. But nothing will stop me from chasing these prehistoric beasts!

  • @gailhowes9398
    @gailhowes9398 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    So wonderful to see young men so excited about bones from the past, you both are fantastic ! Keep up the good work as if I had to say this🤔🙄😉

  • @lgee6644
    @lgee6644 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    came across yr video here, quite by accident. what a fabulous accident. Loved your knowledge and sharing yr passion. keep it up and best of luck in future hunts.

    • @DiggingScience
      @DiggingScience  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you, we truly hope you enjoy more of our videos and are glad you enjoyed this one!

  • @esockell
    @esockell 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Another amazing video and finds!!! You guys are awesome.

    • @DiggingScience
      @DiggingScience  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You guys are the ones we create these videos for!

  • @kerrimerrill8266
    @kerrimerrill8266 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video, not just content but your video flowed; alligator watcher completes your team. Keep on.

  • @melissaa1876
    @melissaa1876 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So cool! Thanks for sharing! Curious what part of Florida you’re in? Grew up in Fort Myers.

  • @jimanastasio192
    @jimanastasio192 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Man, I'm jealous! You don't find fossils like that in Connecticut. We do have some bedrock from the dinosaur era in my area, but fossils are super rare.

    • @DiggingScience
      @DiggingScience  4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      We are very thankful. Our goal is to make this our full time job, doing educational programs and making TH-cam videos.

  • @tgatez3566
    @tgatez3566 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Balls of steel for swimming through all that.

    • @DiggingScience
      @DiggingScience  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Makes for great free diving ballast ;)

  • @walterwally983
    @walterwally983 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Really really liked this. You guys found a little bit of everything!!

  • @TheWhisperrKid
    @TheWhisperrKid 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I literally can’t stop watching your stuff. Sooo interesting

  • @GregsTurtleHaven
    @GregsTurtleHaven 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So cool! i always keep my eyes peeled for fossils, but no luck yet!

  • @jayniestanley4730
    @jayniestanley4730 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ur finds today r bomb!!!! I luv that femur head,. Beautiful ❤️❤️❤️

  • @vickivaught718
    @vickivaught718 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    How are you avoiding alligators? Oops, I guess you aren't!

  • @alursino3213
    @alursino3213 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Just an awesome video to share with ppl, the history of our world is absolutely amazing and I’m sure all who watch are mesmerized like I am. Well done.

    • @DiggingScience
      @DiggingScience  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you Al, I can't wait to share more with you and everyone else!

  • @elrobo3568
    @elrobo3568 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I am very impressed in the level of knowledge you have and really enjoy your video. Great job!

    • @DiggingScience
      @DiggingScience  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you! We cannot wait to share more with you!

  • @tmoigor8798
    @tmoigor8798 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I used to collect Megalodon teeth when I lived in Fl, you are finding way cooler stuff, wish I knew about this back then.

    • @DiggingScience
      @DiggingScience  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think the fossil mammals are way cooler. Shame that you couldn't hunt for them, but I'm happy to share these discoveries with you :)

  • @lewiswrenne9361
    @lewiswrenne9361 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Fantastic... discoveries! Thanks for sharing bro!

    • @DiggingScience
      @DiggingScience  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks for watching and supporting the channel!

  • @ExploringwithDaveElsender
    @ExploringwithDaveElsender 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice video buddy well enjoyed this. Love the history.

    • @DiggingScience
      @DiggingScience  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Glad you enjoyed it! Look out for a new video tomorrow!

    • @ExploringwithDaveElsender
      @ExploringwithDaveElsender 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Digging Science will definitely be watching it. Love your channel.

  • @NathanFree84
    @NathanFree84 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Picking up 23million old pieces just off the ground. Awesome.

  • @americanrebel413
    @americanrebel413 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Your friend from (dig dive discover) is he still making videos or has he quit or did something happen to him? He hasn't made any video for quite some time. I hope he is OK.
    Great video thank you.

  • @Marie-or6hz
    @Marie-or6hz 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent finds with the tortoise shell and the cat jaw. Are you keeping records on what you find and where? You're welcome to visit Montana, and do some fossil hunting here, if you like. Best to you and yours.

  • @Jeep-Addicts
    @Jeep-Addicts 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You are finding these items in the river but can you find them on land also or is it much harder?? I know nothing about this so just asking. Paul

    • @DiggingScience
      @DiggingScience  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Rivers erode and accumulate the fossils so typically they are a much more reliable source. But some mines and construction sites have been famous for the fossils uncovered. However, digging up a random tract of land probably wont produce anything. Hope that helps!

  • @tomcarlson3244
    @tomcarlson3244 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Lots of fun to go along with you. I used to snorkel in all the rivers of the north shore of Lake Superior. I found lots of fishing lures, and the lower jaw of a black bear. I don’t think any of it was as old as what you are finding. 😀. What do you do with your finds? You must have a big store room.

  • @Haxzaw
    @Haxzaw 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    ...I was watching "Aquachigger" channel and this got recommended to me from TH-cam. I'm so glad, this is awesome some great finds bro hope to see more.

    • @DiggingScience
      @DiggingScience  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Good to see you found the channel! Cant wait to share more!

    • @audreymuzingo933
      @audreymuzingo933 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I too stumbled on this via my usual manmade treasure hunter videos. Funny because my background is biology but I never thought of amateur fossil hunter videos as a possible 'thing.'

    • @njones420
      @njones420 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      likewise.
      Blown away by your identification skills. I used to get fossils from the Jurassic-coast in the south of the UK, but they stopped people from digging them out of the cliff-face years ago (probably for the best)

  • @mkivy
    @mkivy 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just joined, shared, and liked!

  • @creekfishingny5448
    @creekfishingny5448 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love this stuff. Got into YouTubing for fishing but I’ve always had a strong fascination with nature in general. Fossil hunting is always an option around the rivers and creeks I fish. I may have to try on a slow day of fishing.

    • @DiggingScience
      @DiggingScience  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Absolutely! Fossil hunting fulfills that same primitive joy as fishing and it never gets old no matter what you find! A bad day fossil hunting is better than a good day doing just about anything else!

  • @user-yw8pk5hv1w
    @user-yw8pk5hv1w 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Star wars: may the force be with you!
    Digging science: May the fossils surprise you!
    hahah a new friend here man

  • @bobkelley8291
    @bobkelley8291 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Would it be legal to take wire mesh of different sizes on wood frames and sift the beach area? I am an old man now and there are so many new laws. There are so many more teeth there plus you never know.

  • @andreawashnak6840
    @andreawashnak6840 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So many cool fines

  • @alanpereira6824
    @alanpereira6824 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love your dedication and inspiration, keep going for it us.

    • @DiggingScience
      @DiggingScience  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you so much, Alan! We certainly will! Let us know if you have any questions and we hope to see you in the comments again on future videos!

  • @ckb1137
    @ckb1137 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I found what looked like your cylindrical horse tooth but it was about twice the size. would you guess that it is a horse tooth or might it belong to a different species?

  • @swampdonkey101
    @swampdonkey101 ปีที่แล้ว

    Have you guys ever used electric submersible fans to blow the layers out we just started that method in central fl with good success and beats faning the silt with fins or by hand.

  • @dwightpickens2895
    @dwightpickens2895 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This was the first time I had ever seen the video and I subscribed that was totally awesome

    • @DiggingScience
      @DiggingScience  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks so much Dwight! Looking forward to seeing you in the comments on future videos!

  • @snickerstorino
    @snickerstorino 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    are you guys standing in most the footage? cameras play depth tricks, looks like you're standing but it looks deep when you go to the creek bottom. Also just curious but whats the water temp there? december all our water is froze solid ha ha

    • @snickerstorino
      @snickerstorino 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      also i love the channel, great stuff and congrats on the treasures!

    • @DiggingScience
      @DiggingScience  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      We were standing at the Mammoth skull spot, but at the Mastodon tooth and Mammoth ball joint spot. We were balancing on logs! Thanks for the support :)

  • @Soapartisan875
    @Soapartisan875 ปีที่แล้ว

    To think that mammoth skull
    is possibly over 4000 yrs old it’s just incredible ..

  • @ballsakch2489
    @ballsakch2489 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I lived in Florida for 9 years I walk to the edge of the Everglades read the sign and left I want a Megalodon tooth

    • @Ableten
      @Ableten 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Son that is the finest set of fuzzy peaches I’ve ever layer eyes on.

  • @TheShootist
    @TheShootist 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    On the west side of Lake Louisa in Lake county there is a singular white sand beach (old Taggart property on Oswalt Rd.). We have been pulling Indian artifacts, many chert arrowheads, out of the top 10 inches of sand there since 1948. The beach extends 30 yards out from shore to an often buried spring head at 10' depth. The property line ends at the high water mark.

  • @MatthewBaran
    @MatthewBaran 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Is the river low right now? Planning on getting in next Monday

  • @soapylobster6637
    @soapylobster6637 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    the amount of knowledge about fossils amazes me, i would just look at something and be like hmm thats a cool fossil, but you know everything about them

  • @tracker5849
    @tracker5849 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    WOW!!!
    How cool!!! I have found things in gravel and didn't know what they were..was told toss am back..junk. :( wish I had someone to teach me. I have 2 words tho...FLORIDA ALLIGATOR!!!!! BE CAREFUL!! ... SUBSCRIBED..my first time seeing you

    • @DiggingScience
      @DiggingScience  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Appreciate the support! Down here we call em' Scaly bois! Looking forward to seeing you in future comments!

    • @tracker5849
      @tracker5849 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@DiggingScience lol..Florida born n raised. Stay safe

  • @TheTeacher1020
    @TheTeacher1020 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wonderful channel. Congratulations on both your knowledge of fossils. I have lived in Florida many years, and knew we had fossils, but didn’t realize how diverse and exciting our fossil beds are.

    • @DiggingScience
      @DiggingScience  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Its one of Florida's most amazing untold stories! Thanks for enjoying.

  • @The_Cannabis_Connoisseur
    @The_Cannabis_Connoisseur 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I didn't know Mammoths were in Florida! So Florida was covered in ice and snow too!

    • @DiggingScience
      @DiggingScience  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Florida was more of a Savannah. We had a species of Mammoth known as the Columbian Mammoth. They were a much less hairy mammoth suited for warmer environments!

    • @The_Cannabis_Connoisseur
      @The_Cannabis_Connoisseur 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@DiggingScience thanks! I'm 46 and I still learn something new everyday! Great video!

    • @The_Cannabis_Connoisseur
      @The_Cannabis_Connoisseur 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@DiggingScience I never knew Mammoths and Mastodons were different too! 👍🏽

  • @mikehearse2888
    @mikehearse2888 ปีที่แล้ว

    19:32 I'm convinced you two are living in a video game and somehow the other dude died, dropped his inventory, and respawned, and that's why there were so many fossils around the gopro

  • @A.P.C.GROOVES
    @A.P.C.GROOVES 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Can u find these in any florida rivers or just peace river?

    • @DiggingScience
      @DiggingScience  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ice Age mammal fossils have been found in almost every Floridan River!

  • @MsRuthLittle
    @MsRuthLittle 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    what a great video I enjoyed it very much. liked the scientific names well done.

  • @eugenewall6620
    @eugenewall6620 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    If you ever go to Virginia, just below Smithfield, on the James river, you can find tons of shark teeth. A lot of Megladon teeth have been found there.

  • @davidfink2923
    @davidfink2923 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Keep hunting enjoy the finds...

  • @Gaardieen
    @Gaardieen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    15:30 Funniest part of the entire video.

  • @mariadigiovanni1168
    @mariadigiovanni1168 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you for vlogging such a wonderful interest. I just found your channel and I am thrilled. I have a question. Why are there such a concentration of bones in these areas. Was it that they were ancient watering holes and a source of food up and down the food chain? I used to know this info. Just so interesting. Thank you for this.

    • @DiggingScience
      @DiggingScience  4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      We are so happy you found the channel! While bones and artifacts do concentrate around paleo-springs and other important areas. These fossils were preserved mostly from chance over a couple million years. However, some of the ice age ones probably come from a period in which the area might have been boggy and better able to preserve and then fossilize bone. There are peat layers as evidence to this.

    • @mwj5368
      @mwj5368 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@DiggingScience They would really be able to answer that question in astounding detail if you'd leave the fossils where they are and mark the area because as the fossils lay is crucial for paleontoligists to answer such a question. You find things for the thrill of it yet very important information is forever lost.

    • @DiggingScience
      @DiggingScience  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hi,@@mwj5368 , we are licensed through the Florida Museum of Natural History and I am also a trained geologist. We report all findings to the state. Unfortunately, since it is an underwater site, the data that you are talking about is almost entirely lost. It is all reworked (hence why you can find shark teeth next to mammoth bones. But I agree with you sites like the Montbrook site, hold immense value through cataloging by grid demarcation where all the fossils were discovered. By doing so there they were able to determine that they were deposited there by a prehistoric river.

  • @alyssahoffmann278
    @alyssahoffmann278 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Do you keep them?

  • @bimcanes100
    @bimcanes100 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Are you guys on public, private or state land?

    • @Dman9fp
      @Dman9fp 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      In florida if the waterway is navigable by boat during any season of the year, it's state land. Just need a $5 fossil permit from UF to collect non shark/ray teeth vertebrate fossils on state lands

  • @mark109s
    @mark109s 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Just found your videos and absolutely love them! How did you get into this field?

    • @DiggingScience
      @DiggingScience  4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thank you! Every subscriber is HUGE. I grew up on a farm where we would find arrowheads when we plowed and my dad would take us to the creeks to dig for shark teeth. I fell in love with it at an early age!

  • @ljannesister762
    @ljannesister762 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Looks like you had 'a lightbulb' moment there !

  • @big0coke10
    @big0coke10 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love to have a megalodon tooth 💯

  • @audreymuzingo933
    @audreymuzingo933 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Ha I saw the thumbnail and I thought that was how the fossils were discovered. I was like, "Did a shark eat a cat????"

  • @stevetemple8826
    @stevetemple8826 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That's really amazing stuff. Subscribed

  • @montneymon-ta-knee6810
    @montneymon-ta-knee6810 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love how the creatures hide so well you have no idea they are watching you and how close they are