what a way to finish the vid. Love the sharp angle on the root of the beast. Especially like the great white as well. Also makes me miss the old days at PCS pulling out teeth that *didnt* get beaten by the currents.
Summerville, SC once was a primordial ocean. GoogleMachine the location, not too far from Charleston . This answer maybe too late for your question this time, but maybe not too late for next visit.
@@domainmojo2162 Dragons don't exist so you can't really have an expectation of how their teeth would look. I see they don't teach logic in school anymore. I think maybe modern humans are dumber.
@@blackriverfossils Hello. Down here in Florida we search the oceans and rivers for meg teeth. Very hard to find. This place you are filming at is amazing. Would you be willing to host and tour myself, wife and daughter for a day there? I dig like no other and we love the hunt...
I'm in South Carolina near Charleston, but shark teeth can be found all over the place, even in states you would never think of like Kansas. Megalodon teeth, the big ones, are found along the coastal plain of the eastern US from Maryland south through Florida.
@@blackriverfossils This is true. Here in Maryland on the Chesapeake Bay they just found a whole mouth full of Meg teeth about a month ago that they believe were from a dead shark that laid on the bottom. All the teeth where together in a small area. I believe like 50+ were in that group. They were found at Calvert Cliffs.
@@blackriverfossils Morning, I have a question and would love to correspond. When I go on the Black river fossils site and go into Contact us, to whom should I direct my message? Thanks.
@@ChesapeakeBayBrian399 choose dw from the list, but I think it is not working. i'm rebuilding that site now to fix all the stuff that is broken. you can email me at ditchweezil at blackriverfossils dot org
you can find them in a creek called Greensmill Run in Greenville. You can also find them in the spoil piles in front of the Aurora Fossil Museum brought in from the PCS Phosphate mine in Aurora. There are beaches also, but I'm not sure exactly which ones. Many of the rivers in the east also have fossils but you'll need to scuba dive there. I'm sure there are countless other places also, NC is rich with fossil history. Best of luck to you!
megalodon teeth are usually much larger, so there is some size overlap but the the most noticeable feature that differentiates them for me is the much larger bourlette enamel between the root and blade on the display side of megalodon teeth. also called a chevron, its thick and V shaped on megs and barely there on great whites.
@@blackriverfossils thanks for explaining i always wondered what was the difference between them also wheres the best place to look for them cause im curious about that as well cause my nephew loves sharks & i thought it’d be cool one day to try to find a big one for him
Carbon dating cannot be done on pieces over 40,000 years ago. But we might be able to tell you what kind of tree that wood is (to genus level) and that I might be able to do. If you sell wholesale Megs, I'm interested.
there are other fossils including whales and ice age mammals, just not in this video. the shark teeth are beat up because they have been tossed around in the waves and flowing water over millions of years before I found them
I was at Jacksonville Fl. when they were dredging offshore pumping the sand onto the beach and I went to see why people were gathered around the output pile and as soon as I got there a guy dove into the pile to grab a Meg tooth bigger than his hand.
moving water piles similarly shaped and sized things together. ancient rivers during the ice age eroded previously deposited and fossilized teeth and pushed them into piles like this.
Hey can you help me out and answer your question that would be great!? ... I found as a child in a creek called Bull Creek in Middleburg Florida it's near Jacksonville but outside the city limits its own town everything but anyway it's connected to Black Creek but it's way off it's a small little creek some point you could jump across it but at a wider more shallow kind of points low water level because of the rain or lack thereof I was digging in the hard-packed clay and rock sediment kind of like hard pack dirt sort of and I had a little bit of water running over it and with my knife as a child I dug up a shark's tooth it's very brittle the tip of it actually snapped off and I glued it back on my sister accidentally broke it because it was so brittle! But it is completely Brown and it is in the shape of kind of like these megalodon teeth it's not quite as big as the larger ones it's maybe 2 in in height and it's very triangular and it looks like a classic trucks to kind of like a tiger sharks tooth or a great white shark's toothvery straight almost Arrowhead like it has no real curved one side of the other I'm not sure if that's just the placement in the mouth or whatever of the shark but I was wondering if someone can help me identify it without seeing it necessarily if you just tell me in general what it means that it's so brittle and that it's brown and almost petrified kind of material it was brown from the very beginning kind of a brownish red color but it's obviously it wasn't that way always something that happened to petrification or some sort of sedimentation in realization kind of sitting there and passing through the molecules of it and changing it inside and out I guess but apparently it's you know thousands and thousands of years old some would say millions but whatever that's not what I'm getting at I'm just trying to figure out what species you may think it could be or just in general what kind of situation the tooth would bethat is found in a small Creek tributary that comes off of the main North American Florida Creek like Black Creek which is the deepest Creek in North America but this is no Black Creek it's called Bull Creek it is connected eventually you will see that they connect somewhere along the lines but it's quite a few miles even as the crow flies but even more as you flow through the river and walk down the little bank and it almost vanishes at some points but it's just a little brook! And some places it's like a trickle and then it gets wide again and deep not real deep but fairly deep and then it'll kind of wine and make its way through these huge like sandhill type underwater features from Florida was once underwater I guess but there's been rolling hills out towards camp blanding in 215 but it's towards can't blending in Kingsley lake and off of 215 between blanding boulevard and 15 in Middleburg Florida in Clay county which is west and south I think of Jacksonville Florida!you can hit Orange Park Florida which is a town right next to Jacksonville and then a little further down Orange Park turns into Clay county and it turns into Middleburg and then key West and Stark and Lodi and Waldo and then Gainesville where the University of Florida is that direction! If you've ever gone to Gainesville 3301 the state road or not to key West or the Gold Head State Park and you've pretty much crossed over one of the bridges and you've been within a few feet of this Creek that I'm talking about! 👍🏽✌🏽✌🏽✌🏽🇺🇸😁 Thanks very much! That's as much information as I can remember about it and I still have it though and it's in one piece again but a little bit of the tip is missing from crumbling away over the years and I didn't even realize his child that I probably could have done more things up and that freak but you know it wasn't any resources for me back then although I wanted to be an archaeologist and a paleontologist and all kinds of different things like that were interesting to me but never never work out for me that way I guess lol ...
To add to this from watching this video here when he shows that mako tooth that is what it looks like very much except it's much stronger doesn't have the curb to it and it doesn't have any enamel or anything really it's just the general shape which is perfect but it's very smooth over and it's basically completely petrified and minerals eyes just looks like a piece of clay or stand or stone or something in the shape of the tooth has the details in the curbs and everything and certain lines but none of the actual animal is left none of the actual route of the two or three things it is just all turned to soft metal petrified organic material or inorganic material I'm not sure what you would call it now but it's it's rock now pretty much almost hardened mud in the shape of a tooth LOL! It isn't like you know super brittle in the sense that you can't touch it or anything it says some of the look of the enamel but it is certainly the color of muddy clay all the way through it brownish orange is brown and it's just really brittle at the tip in the small parts but you can see when I look at it now some of the little ridges of the side of the toothand you can see the center of the tooth the little groove that's you know on the center of the tooth out towards the top and then you can see that it's probably smooth down The cutting edge on both sides without the little serrations I don't think so there are a little bit of details but it seems a lot like that may go to that's the closest I've seen in the video to it so far
And further down the video now that I've seen a little more of it that great white tooth that he seems to be excited about that looks just like the tooth I have but obviously not the enamel and it's in much more mineralized and petrified condition but the general shape is almost identical the sizes about the same and there's no serrations visible but they're barely maybe barely visible on the edges I think it's been worn down through handling a little bit over the past 25 years or so but I think I remember it having a little bit of serrations on the edges of the tooth and that was you know quarter century ago? Lol
many shark teeth look similar so it is not possible to accurately identify it from a written description. based on your description of where you found it, it certainly could be a fossil shark tooth. They often change color as they dry out in the days after you find them, but color comes from the minerals present during fossilization.
I'm always as careful as I can be in a hobby where it is commonplace to swing mattocks and throw hundreds of pounds of dirt with a shovel in pursuit of the prize.
Meg teeth look like teeth to me. But, if someone of stature back in ancient times told me they were from dragons, id pribably believe them. That is why you should look into things we are not quite sure of...😊
back in ancient times they used to call fossil shark teeth "tongue stones". They didn't know what they were but they resembled tongues made of rock. it wasn't until the 1600s that someone noticed how similar shark teeth were to those, but they didn't know anything about fossilization. Its very interesting how knowledge is gained over time!
its hard to pick a favorite animal because there have been so many awesome ones over time, but I will say I search for shark fossils the most so they have to be near the top of the list
besides the fact that scientists can't learn any more from fossil shark teeth, what @markgray3594 said is right. the teeth have already been dug up and they were about to be crushed and reburied so if we didn't secure permission and dig them out, nobody would have seen anything. i realize my videos are far from scientific but at least i can share my finds here so others have the opportunity to see these amazing fossils.
You can get carbonating done on that piece of wood but carbon dating can only extrapolate dates supposedly out to about 30,000 years they try to go further with things but just by doing the science and the research you can know the limitations that real scientists will admit to not to mention the fact that the idea of carbon dating and the accuracies of it are probably not accurate whatsoever when they know the date of something you can't open it because the dates will not reflect it but if you don't know the date then they take the grouping of the most common date of the groupings and dates they get from a sample of material which will be varying from 100,030,015,012,500 years and they'll have maybe 8 or 10 that are generally around $18,000 or something and then they'll group and say well that must be it because most of them are a majority of them anyway or closer to that date but if you do the date of the object let's say it's found in a sealed environment and it's known to be 2000 years oldfrom the time of Jesus and you know for a fact that it's a part of a chest owned by the disciples or something and you were to have that tested if you told them that you knew the date of the object and how old it was etcetera then they wouldn't test it and they wouldn't give you a date because they wouldn't want to play fools but if you didn't know the date then they were testing no problem and they would tell you all the information you want to know about it that's because they're not really accurately getting a date it's very very weird the way it works with the whole Half-Life dating systems are nonsensical you can't know the rate of decay has stayed the same you can't know the original amount of carbon-14 and you can't know that the environment has been the same throughout all history from then to now and what affects the environment and other factors would have on the carbon-14 and you don't know what the baseline amount or level was for a living animal as it died at that point in time! Do you know if I can give you is a burning candle in a room you walk into a room and you see a long non-tapered burning candle that's in a scandal stand and it's just burning away and it's been burning for a little while you can't tell where the end was cuz it's not tapered so it's just the same size all the way down same thickness same circumference et cetera and someone says how long has this been burning?!? You can never truly answer that question correctly because you don't know the factors that you need to know to get an accurate date!... you could do some measurements you can measure the size left of the candle as you found it you can measure the rate of burn and that's about it but you need to know couple things you need to know the fact that the original candle started off at a certain size certain length you don't know what it was it could have been 10 ft tall it could have been 10 inches tall it could have been you know just 3 inches longer than it is now burning or it could have been 30 ft long and just a crazy long candle you just don't know if it was or not and you don't know if the flame or the rate of burn was the same throughout the burning process and how long has been going on without those those key measurements or knowledge of those factors you can never accurately guess or measure and determine with any certainty how old or how long something has been burning or how old something is same thing as from 14! and 2 answer the question video yeah they are weird about institutions you got to work for them you got to be one of their students and blah blah blah but they charge like you know 10 grand or something to do with a damn test now it's just a total rip-off they just don't want people getting familiar with that system because it's a BS system and then they use other systems potassium and argon plutonium and all kinds of chemicals in the elements they use the date things that just aren't accurate! You have a half-life of an atom that you find in a material and you know that it decays half of it decays in certain amount of time and then the other half of the it will start to decay and then half of that second half with a k in a certain amount of time that supposedly amount of time is the same as the first half of it decade and they say well the rate of decayis constant throughout history and they can assume that it is stable but just by their definition just by their signs it's not stable or constant because if I have a 100 ping pong balls and in one year half of them disappear and then one year later half of the half disappear which is 25 and then another one year later half of the 25th and half of the you know 12.5 disappear and then you have 6.25 and then 3.125 and then 1 something something and keeps going in half over and over forever but never quite reaching 0! That is how they say Half-Life decay works but if it was a constant rate of decay then you would have one year half of it would disappear and then a year later of the other half of 50 ping pong balls would disappear and that would be the end of it but instead of the rate of decay or disappearance of the ping pong balls in my analogy is clearly slowing down it takes a year for 50 to disappear and then a year from then we should be second year or two years later you have 25 disappearing and then from the two year mark onlyclearly it's a rate of decay is slowing down the proportion or the half-life or they say you know well it's the same rate it's half but that's not a half is not a real numbers and abstract thought is an abstract measurement it's not a real thing you can't say like a what's you know what's 12 / 2 and you just say well it's half half of 12 that's the answer 12 divided by 2 is half of 12 you say know the answer is 6 and they say well six is half of 12 so I was right and no you're not right and you're not right about this either!😂😂😂😂 So they can't take things that they say and they can't date rocks. Or fossilized organic material because it is rock and no longer organic material and if they have carbon 14 and then has to be less than 30,000 years so anything that has a little bit of carbon left in it that you can attach is well under a million years and it's close to 30000 or less according to their science that's their book saying this!
5:08 had to be the funniest moment for me out of all your videos haha. 10/10 voice acting
what a way to finish the vid. Love the sharp angle on the root of the beast. Especially like the great white as well. Also makes me miss the old days at PCS pulling out teeth that *didnt* get beaten by the currents.
thanks man! this layer smelled just like PCS. its hard not to think of that place!
I do love the megs and Angies!!!❤
Wow, beautiful megs, sweet finds!!
thank you!
5.58 inches long megalodon tooth dang dude awesome find this one is the 5th biggest megalodon tooth ever in this collection in the TH-cam videos
its a pie plate man!
@@blackriverfossils oh
@@jtsmith5903 not a literal pie plate - its so big you could put a piece of pie on it
@@blackriverfossils oh cool
Where was this at, or at least what type of area.. random creak near beach, construction near beach, etc???
it was near charleston sc, about 20 miles from the beach
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thank you for watching and for your comment!
I’m glad someone is finding those things. Can’t lie I’d love to find one myself
thanks for watching!
@@blackriverfossils shark teeth are very easy to find but do not break a shark tooth
What is the LOCATION/S of where to find teeth?!?!? I'm visiting S.C. soon and would love to spend a day searching but idk where to look.
Summerville, SC once was a primordial ocean. GoogleMachine the location, not too far from Charleston .
This answer maybe too late for your question this time, but maybe not too late for next visit.
I can understand why people in ancient times believed these to be from dragons.
me too. i wonder what the Native Americans thought they were? I know they used them but I have no idea if there was any associated lore.
@@domainmojo2162 Dragons don't exist so you can't really have an expectation of how their teeth would look.
I see they don't teach logic in school anymore. I think maybe modern humans are dumber.
@@blackriverfossils Hello. Down here in Florida we search the oceans and rivers for meg teeth. Very hard to find. This place you are filming at is amazing. Would you be willing to host and tour myself, wife and daughter for a day there? I dig like no other and we love the hunt...
@@nickfrost9771 i am just an amateur collector so I don't lead tours. thanks for your comment and for watching!
@@blackriverfossils ok. You do great videos. Thabk you for responding.
absolutely amazing! where is this spot your digging? hopefully going to pass thru SC ive been itching to fossil and shark teeth hunt!
this spot was near Charleston. Good luck on your visit & thanks for watching!
Do you ever organize tours? If not, you should consider it!
@@The_No_Victim_Zone no i don't do tours because I'm just an amateur collector. Thanks for the compliment!
What state are you in? Where would one look for teeth?
I'm in South Carolina near Charleston, but shark teeth can be found all over the place, even in states you would never think of like Kansas. Megalodon teeth, the big ones, are found along the coastal plain of the eastern US from Maryland south through Florida.
@@blackriverfossils This is true. Here in Maryland on the Chesapeake Bay they just found a whole mouth full of Meg teeth about a month ago that they believe were from a dead shark that laid on the bottom. All the teeth where together in a small area. I believe like 50+ were in that group. They were found at Calvert Cliffs.
Unbelievable teeth. Definitely looks like a Scuba day. WTG.
thanks man!
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Omg what a dream site!!
Also never expected a meg from that site would have the quality pf that 5"5/8 one. Always getting it done thanks for sharing
we were just as shocked to see a tooth like that come from there. almost everything else was devastated. thanks for watching!
You caught the dying moments. I would feel honored to find this amazing find.
absolutely! Thanks for watching and for your comment!
I am so happy for both of you, to find those awesome teeth!
thank you!
That was awesome to watch ❤️
thanks for watching!
Absolutely huge finish! Around how long would you say you were out there? And gracious, how do you pick your sites!
this was probably 8 hours of digging over a couple of days at a spot. we explore and hunt where we can. its hard sometimes to find a spot.
For real how any mountain sport or had to be by the ocean Mounts ? I
Wow! what a Ripper that big Meg is. nice
sure is! Thanks 👍
So neat
Lucky you!!
Thank you.
Great whites are my favs! What an amazing day, congrats!!
we love gws too! thanks for watching and for your comment!
Looking Good!
thanks!
@@blackriverfossils Morning, I have a question and would love to correspond. When I go on the Black river fossils site and go into Contact us, to whom should I direct my message? Thanks.
@@ChesapeakeBayBrian399 choose dw from the list, but I think it is not working. i'm rebuilding that site now to fix all the stuff that is broken. you can email me at ditchweezil at blackriverfossils dot org
thanks for the lack of info. location? what kind of sediment to look for?
wow exciting video many thanks
thanks for watching!
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I’m from North Carolina do you know of any good places to find shark teeth there
you can find them in a creek called Greensmill Run in Greenville. You can also find them in the spoil piles in front of the Aurora Fossil Museum brought in from the PCS Phosphate mine in Aurora. There are beaches also, but I'm not sure exactly which ones. Many of the rivers in the east also have fossils but you'll need to scuba dive there. I'm sure there are countless other places also, NC is rich with fossil history. Best of luck to you!
Thank you
So what's the point in finding the teeth? Do you keep or sell them?
I collect fossil shark teeth so I keep them.
Where is that place ??? That would make for an interesting vacation destination , just spend a week looking for Mega Shark teeth .
its near charleston south carolina
Wow!! Amazimg haul!
thank you!
Cool finds! Subbed
thanks for the sub!
Awesome haul! I subbed.
thanks for the sub!
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what place did you go to find the shark teeth?
it is near Charleston, South Carolina
@@blackriverfossils what place specifically
@@gorillagaming1105 I do t think he’s giving up his spots
Do you know if there are places to find these in Alabama?
You can definitely find fossil shark teeth in Alabama but I'm not certain whether there are megalodon teeth.
So how do you tell the difference between a great white tooth and a megalodon tooth
megalodon teeth are usually much larger, so there is some size overlap but the the most noticeable feature that differentiates them for me is the much larger bourlette enamel between the root and blade on the display side of megalodon teeth. also called a chevron, its thick and V shaped on megs and barely there on great whites.
@@blackriverfossils thanks for explaining i always wondered what was the difference between them also wheres the best place to look for them cause im curious about that as well cause my nephew loves sharks & i thought it’d be cool one day to try to find a big one for him
Carbon dating cannot be done on pieces over 40,000 years ago. But we might be able to tell you what kind of tree that wood is (to genus level) and that I might be able to do.
If you sell wholesale Megs, I'm interested.
And we paying so much money and this guy just digging them easy
its not always this easy - this is a really good spot.
What a find. For those who believe in dragons. I would LOVE to believe they were real❤
dinosaurs are close and they were real!
Where the heck are you finding these at? I MUST know lol
its near charleston south carolina.
Why are there only really beat-up shark teeth and no other fossils in the mud?
there are other fossils including whales and ice age mammals, just not in this video. the shark teeth are beat up because they have been tossed around in the waves and flowing water over millions of years before I found them
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it was a superb hunt i wish they all turned out that great!
Now do that in UK ?
amazing
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I was at Jacksonville Fl. when they were dredging offshore pumping the sand onto the beach and I went to see why people were gathered around the output pile and as soon as I got there a guy dove into the pile to grab a Meg tooth bigger than his hand.
That's awesome that people gathered around to watch the sand get pumped onto the beach to find teeth. talk about fresh off the boat!
Why are so many teeth found in this spot?
moving water piles similarly shaped and sized things together. ancient rivers during the ice age eroded previously deposited and fossilized teeth and pushed them into piles like this.
For how much do u sell one and how to purchase?
i am just an amateur collector so i don't sell my finds. thanks for watching my video!
@@blackriverfossils i search and collect baltic amber. An exchange maybe?
@@tomaszkwiecien8591 i have a collection of baltic amber from trading with another collector many years ago, but thank you for the offer anyway!
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What states in the US have the most Meg teeth?
MD, VA, NC, SC, GA, and FL are all well-stocked with Megalodon teeth.
Where do you sale ?
Been a subscriber for a while...love it! I have a single large (6") meg tooth a buddy of mine collected diving off S Carolina...
thanks for watching and for the sub! those divers find great stuff but they go in really touch spots they deserve it
Hey can you help me out and answer your question that would be great!? ...
I found as a child in a creek called Bull Creek in Middleburg Florida it's near Jacksonville but outside the city limits its own town everything but anyway it's connected to Black Creek but it's way off it's a small little creek some point you could jump across it but at a wider more shallow kind of points low water level because of the rain or lack thereof I was digging in the hard-packed clay and rock sediment kind of like hard pack dirt sort of and I had a little bit of water running over it and with my knife as a child I dug up a shark's tooth it's very brittle the tip of it actually snapped off and I glued it back on my sister accidentally broke it because it was so brittle! But it is completely Brown and it is in the shape of kind of like these megalodon teeth it's not quite as big as the larger ones it's maybe 2 in in height and it's very triangular and it looks like a classic trucks to kind of like a tiger sharks tooth or a great white shark's toothvery straight almost Arrowhead like it has no real curved one side of the other I'm not sure if that's just the placement in the mouth or whatever of the shark but I was wondering if someone can help me identify it without seeing it necessarily if you just tell me in general what it means that it's so brittle and that it's brown and almost petrified kind of material it was brown from the very beginning kind of a brownish red color but it's obviously it wasn't that way always something that happened to petrification or some sort of sedimentation in realization kind of sitting there and passing through the molecules of it and changing it inside and out I guess but apparently it's you know thousands and thousands of years old some would say millions but whatever that's not what I'm getting at I'm just trying to figure out what species you may think it could be or just in general what kind of situation the tooth would bethat is found in a small Creek tributary that comes off of the main North American Florida Creek like Black Creek which is the deepest Creek in North America but this is no Black Creek it's called Bull Creek it is connected eventually you will see that they connect somewhere along the lines but it's quite a few miles even as the crow flies but even more as you flow through the river and walk down the little bank and it almost vanishes at some points but it's just a little brook! And some places it's like a trickle and then it gets wide again and deep not real deep but fairly deep and then it'll kind of wine and make its way through these huge like sandhill type underwater features from Florida was once underwater I guess but there's been rolling hills out towards camp blanding in 215 but it's towards can't blending in Kingsley lake and off of 215 between blanding boulevard and 15 in Middleburg Florida in Clay county which is west and south I think of Jacksonville Florida!you can hit Orange Park Florida which is a town right next to Jacksonville and then a little further down Orange Park turns into Clay county and it turns into Middleburg and then key West and Stark and Lodi and Waldo and then Gainesville where the University of Florida is that direction! If you've ever gone to Gainesville 3301 the state road or not to key West or the Gold Head State Park and you've pretty much crossed over one of the bridges and you've been within a few feet of this Creek that I'm talking about! 👍🏽✌🏽✌🏽✌🏽🇺🇸😁 Thanks very much! That's as much information as I can remember about it and I still have it though and it's in one piece again but a little bit of the tip is missing from crumbling away over the years and I didn't even realize his child that I probably could have done more things up and that freak but you know it wasn't any resources for me back then although I wanted to be an archaeologist and a paleontologist and all kinds of different things like that were interesting to me but never never work out for me that way I guess lol ...
To add to this from watching this video here when he shows that mako tooth that is what it looks like very much except it's much stronger doesn't have the curb to it and it doesn't have any enamel or anything really it's just the general shape which is perfect but it's very smooth over and it's basically completely petrified and minerals eyes just looks like a piece of clay or stand or stone or something in the shape of the tooth has the details in the curbs and everything and certain lines but none of the actual animal is left none of the actual route of the two or three things it is just all turned to soft metal petrified organic material or inorganic material I'm not sure what you would call it now but it's it's rock now pretty much almost hardened mud in the shape of a tooth LOL! It isn't like you know super brittle in the sense that you can't touch it or anything it says some of the look of the enamel but it is certainly the color of muddy clay all the way through it brownish orange is brown and it's just really brittle at the tip in the small parts but you can see when I look at it now some of the little ridges of the side of the toothand you can see the center of the tooth the little groove that's you know on the center of the tooth out towards the top and then you can see that it's probably smooth down The cutting edge on both sides without the little serrations I don't think so there are a little bit of details but it seems a lot like that may go to that's the closest I've seen in the video to it so far
And further down the video now that I've seen a little more of it that great white tooth that he seems to be excited about that looks just like the tooth I have but obviously not the enamel and it's in much more mineralized and petrified condition but the general shape is almost identical the sizes about the same and there's no serrations visible but they're barely maybe barely visible on the edges I think it's been worn down through handling a little bit over the past 25 years or so but I think I remember it having a little bit of serrations on the edges of the tooth and that was you know quarter century ago? Lol
many shark teeth look similar so it is not possible to accurately identify it from a written description. based on your description of where you found it, it certainly could be a fossil shark tooth. They often change color as they dry out in the days after you find them, but color comes from the minerals present during fossilization.
4:37 The process of fosselization take 10,000 years.
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Where was this?
it was near Charleston SC
How many megalodons were there 😅
they lived here for millions of years and they lost teeth the whole time so probably a bunch!
Any for sale??
i'm just an amateur collector so I don't sell my finds. thanks for watching!
I just would be happy with my sifting pan and your ‘overburden’ pile..
What an awesome hunt👏👏!! The GW was incredible and the large mako is close to the elusive 3". Thank you for sharing I do appreciate it.
thanks i am really happy with this hunt!
Where is this
near Charleston South Carolina
Be careful not to break them 😅
I'm always as careful as I can be in a hobby where it is commonplace to swing mattocks and throw hundreds of pounds of dirt with a shovel in pursuit of the prize.
Do you happen to take people out to dig?
i'm just an amateur collector so I don't guide tours. thanks for watching!
Anyone else thinking that mud at the start looks delicious?
I wanted to find these since I was a kid...50 plus years now.
i've been addicted to hunting them for a lifetime, I definitely understand the appeal. good luck to you when you decide to give it a go.
@@blackriverfossilsThanks! A buddy and I are probably gonna give it a go in May.
@@jeffschultz732 that's awesome i hope y'all make some great discoveries!
need to head down there and dig wit ya
i'm wishing you luck when you get your shot at SC
The person with the black cap and white T-shirt looks like Woody Harrelson
Dang bro I wanna hit that spot. You killed me this weekend
remember i am behind on my posts still so this was still a while back. i might never catch up!
I’ve gone to Shark Tooth Island and along the beaches. Never know where else to look. Seems like you two found the honey hole! Great finds!
it takes a lot of exploration to find productive spots. thanks for watching and for your comment!
Just think how many of these teeth are dug up and ruined at new construction sites!
thats the kind of thing that keeps me up at night.
Hell I was finding them in there the other day
not the same spot but similar layer
good 😃2
LORD, keep blessing this man with finds. Amen 🙏
Meg teeth look like teeth to me. But, if someone of stature back in ancient times told me they were from dragons, id pribably believe them. That is why you should look into things we are not quite sure of...😊
back in ancient times they used to call fossil shark teeth "tongue stones". They didn't know what they were but they resembled tongues made of rock. it wasn't until the 1600s that someone noticed how similar shark teeth were to those, but they didn't know anything about fossilization. Its very interesting how knowledge is gained over time!
@@blackriverfossils I have also heard that as well...
Do you sell teeth??
no i am just a collector
@@blackriverfossilsyou could sell the bad ones we want the bad ones lol
Can they get DNA from these teeth ?
they are fossilized so there is no dna left unfortunately.
Hi good morning good luck...
good morning and thank you!
this guy stole everything from someone
Your favourite animal ?
its hard to pick a favorite animal because there have been so many awesome ones over time, but I will say I search for shark fossils the most so they have to be near the top of the list
Archeological true value of these fossils is lost for ever. Such a shame!!!!
They are digging in the spoils from a phosphate mine, so the archeological context is irrelevant.
besides the fact that scientists can't learn any more from fossil shark teeth, what @markgray3594 said is right. the teeth have already been dug up and they were about to be crushed and reburied so if we didn't secure permission and dig them out, nobody would have seen anything. i realize my videos are far from scientific but at least i can share my finds here so others have the opportunity to see these amazing fossils.
Surprising the indians never discovered these as a source of arrow heads
You can get carbonating done on that piece of wood but carbon dating can only extrapolate dates supposedly out to about 30,000 years they try to go further with things but just by doing the science and the research you can know the limitations that real scientists will admit to not to mention the fact that the idea of carbon dating and the accuracies of it are probably not accurate whatsoever when they know the date of something you can't open it because the dates will not reflect it but if you don't know the date then they take the grouping of the most common date of the groupings and dates they get from a sample of material which will be varying from 100,030,015,012,500 years and they'll have maybe 8 or 10 that are generally around $18,000 or something and then they'll group and say well that must be it because most of them are a majority of them anyway or closer to that date but if you do the date of the object let's say it's found in a sealed environment and it's known to be 2000 years oldfrom the time of Jesus and you know for a fact that it's a part of a chest owned by the disciples or something and you were to have that tested if you told them that you knew the date of the object and how old it was etcetera then they wouldn't test it and they wouldn't give you a date because they wouldn't want to play fools but if you didn't know the date then they were testing no problem and they would tell you all the information you want to know about it that's because they're not really accurately getting a date it's very very weird the way it works with the whole Half-Life dating systems are nonsensical you can't know the rate of decay has stayed the same you can't know the original amount of carbon-14 and you can't know that the environment has been the same throughout all history from then to now and what affects the environment and other factors would have on the carbon-14 and you don't know what the baseline amount or level was for a living animal as it died at that point in time! Do you know if I can give you is a burning candle in a room you walk into a room and you see a long non-tapered burning candle that's in a scandal stand and it's just burning away and it's been burning for a little while you can't tell where the end was cuz it's not tapered so it's just the same size all the way down same thickness same circumference et cetera and someone says how long has this been burning?!? You can never truly answer that question correctly because you don't know the factors that you need to know to get an accurate date!...
you could do some measurements you can measure the size left of the candle as you found it you can measure the rate of burn and that's about it but you need to know couple things you need to know the fact that the original candle started off at a certain size certain length you don't know what it was it could have been 10 ft tall it could have been 10 inches tall it could have been you know just 3 inches longer than it is now burning or it could have been 30 ft long and just a crazy long candle you just don't know if it was or not and you don't know if the flame or the rate of burn was the same throughout the burning process and how long has been going on without those those key measurements or knowledge of those factors you can never accurately guess or measure and determine with any certainty how old or how long something has been burning or how old something is same thing as from 14!
and 2 answer the question video yeah they are weird about institutions you got to work for them you got to be one of their students and blah blah blah but they charge like you know 10 grand or something to do with a damn test now it's just a total rip-off they just don't want people getting familiar with that system because it's a BS system and then they use other systems potassium and argon plutonium and all kinds of chemicals in the elements they use the date things that just aren't accurate! You have a half-life of an atom that you find in a material and you know that it decays half of it decays in certain amount of time and then the other half of the it will start to decay and then half of that second half with a k in a certain amount of time that supposedly amount of time is the same as the first half of it decade and they say well the rate of decayis constant throughout history and they can assume that it is stable but just by their definition just by their signs it's not stable or constant because if I have a 100 ping pong balls and in one year half of them disappear and then one year later half of the half disappear which is 25 and then another one year later half of the 25th and half of the you know 12.5 disappear and then you have 6.25 and then 3.125 and then 1 something something and keeps going in half over and over forever but never quite reaching 0! That is how they say Half-Life decay works but if it was a constant rate of decay then you would have one year half of it would disappear and then a year later of the other half of 50 ping pong balls would disappear and that would be the end of it but instead of the rate of decay or disappearance of the ping pong balls in my analogy is clearly slowing down it takes a year for 50 to disappear and then a year from then we should be second year or two years later you have 25 disappearing and then from the two year mark onlyclearly it's a rate of decay is slowing down the proportion or the half-life or they say you know well it's the same rate it's half but that's not a half is not a real numbers and abstract thought is an abstract measurement it's not a real thing you can't say like a what's you know what's 12 / 2 and you just say well it's half half of 12 that's the answer 12 divided by 2 is half of 12 you say know the answer is 6 and they say well six is half of 12 so I was right and no you're not right and you're not right about this either!😂😂😂😂 So they can't take things that they say and they can't date rocks. Or fossilized organic material because it is rock and no longer organic material and if they have carbon 14 and then has to be less than 30,000 years so anything that has a little bit of carbon left in it that you can attach is well under a million years and it's close to 30000 or less according to their science that's their book saying this!
CAN YOU PLS GIVE ME A MEG TOOTH I LIKED AND SUBED AND IM A FQN I LOVE MEG TOOTHS
Talk with college's about finding a dept. that will do carbon dating on your wood sample.
good idea