My guy, as a science educator, your work keeps getting better and better. This is one of the coolest videos you've made. Your recent videos are really inspiring in the category of reminding folks that interesting history is all around us, and we never know what we might find if we just take the time to look.
A simple half inch Cole chisel is great for parting layers of rock - couple of bucks or maybe ten depending.. Find a seam or grove between the layers, line up the chisel blade and tap lightly a couple of times. Move the chisel along the seam and repeat until a long way around. If it doesn't work and split, start again and go deeper. Nice video Pro
I have been an avid collector since childhood. Through the decades, I have lost my collection, sadly... ( long story) But at 60 years old, I have had an urge to rekindle my former passion for all things pertaining to fossils. I especially like trilobites, crinoids, sea slabs, echinoderms, bryozoans, and corals; but also fish and plant fossils. Videos such as this one help revitalize my interest.
23:06 I live in a private house and I smashed a ton of rocks, however generally big ones not as delicate as yours. I think you should've made small accurate cracks on the side, this way you not only could make it crack faster but also could divert where the crack will go, but I think the main thing you did wrong was taking a screw, screws are made to stay, you should've found a beefy nail or just used pliers and kept fixing a single(or a bunch) of nails again and again. Or you could buy an electric saw with disks name of which I don't know in English, it can even break concrete but you might need to find someone's garage because using it on the street is a bad idea
The best method I’ve found for splitting rocks is to drill a few pilot holes and hammer in wedges fairly gently to give more control over how the rock splits.
not many things can bring me back to that child sense of wonder, but i remember searching for fossils as a kid in the summer and havent much thought about it since. thanks for another interesting dive into a new world! always a good time here
Looks like you might have a gastropod impression at 18:48 or so! Check out the little spiral! I'd be more inclined to call the brachiopod at 20:10 an internal mold, but very cool nevertheless. I'll also echo what others have said about getting a proper rock hammer. You'll want a chisel-tipped one for working with sedimentary rocks.
If you have a drill with a concrete bit, you can probably make a few intrusive holes that are less that 1/8 in across, minimizing damage to the fossils. Then using a chisel and possibly a 5lb sledge, you can hit the rock along your drilled holes to get a very clean opening
Watching a geologist (amature or pro) show off their collection of cool rocks they found is always entertaining. I had a geo teacher in high school that had a sand collection 😁
As a retired geological engineer I had a good laugh. I remember trying to collect a chunk of rose quartz from a huge bolder and failing. I even Had a real rock hammer. You needed a larger set of tools. A large screw driver or a thin chisel. Would work and your want to hit the driver sharply, then move to the right or left and repeat. It will create a line along the cleavage. After several hits it will split. Anther option is to use a masonry bit and drill a series of small holes then drive a wedge in each hole in series and one little deeper on each hole. Email me and we can talk if you like
At work when splitting big rocks or parts of mountains we hit with a sledge and create like a line of stress in the rock by hitting in multiple places that all connects up to eventually splitt it in controlled manner, not sure how well it works on smaller rocks but could be worth try to learn (it's extremely easy) before buying a set of specialized tools.
12:35 I have one of them in my collection. I was hoping you would tell me what it is. Mine is from Bloomington IN and has one of the ends preserved, it tapers at the ends if thet helps. If you walk behind my house to the creek every single rock is made out of crinoid stems. I used to collect it when I was a kid but there's so many that you just can't take them all home. And out of the millions and millions and millions of chronic stems I have found one crinoid crown with the feeding tentacles. Just one that's how rare they are. I also have a handful that have fish scales and a bunch of seashells. 350 million years ago Morgan County Indiana was the epicenter of crinoids.
Thanks for this delightful video, in which I re-lived my own fossil hunting in the Helderbergs and on the shore of Lake Champlain more than a half century ago. Having just discovered your channel, I hope to see more of your interesting and informative presentations. Thanks.
Use a very hard chisel, such as cold chisels, mason or brick chisels, some of which are available with hand guards so that you can really hit them without risking hitting your hand. Wear eye protection goggles! A small sledgehammer is heavier than the nail hammer that you were using, and its extra weight will be more effective.
I've fossil hunted on the shores of Skaneateles Lake, and I've found a few small trilobite fossils before. They're not eurypterids, but trilobites can definitely be found in the most fossil rich areas of that Devonian rock. Also, other people have said it, but a solid chisel is what you want to split those rocks. Works like a charm on that soft shale.
@@Gingerchalky Perhaps you could follow in the steps of the noble Mary Anning, the palaeontologist that changed the world back in the day. The film "Ammonite" provides a reasonable appraisal of her life and achievements. Whitby was where I was born, Dorset is where I now reside. Happy and safe hunting in which ever direction you choose to investigate.
i grew up in northeastern ohio with a small creek in the woods behind my house. when i was 7 a tornado touched down for a bit on the creek which tore up an insane amount of trees. while sad for the trees, it exposed the roots which allowed me and my dad to dig around for fossils. tons of lil shells super similar to the ones in this video. long story short, this vid brought me back soooo many memories of spending afternoons trying to break open the rocks on the driveway, either with tools similar to the ones used in this or just chucking them at the ground and hoping for dinosaurs 😂 and despite never finding a sauropod, finding each tiny shell was truly magical experience! i hope this video inspires more people to explore the world around them 😁
Grew up in NE Ohio too. We had this big rock pile out back that my dad and mom had either dug up out of the garden or some other hole they were digging, and my sisters and I used to climb all over it looking for fossils. I eventually learned there were no dinosaur fossils in Ohio to my eternal disappointment but we did find lots and lots of imprint fossils!
Depending on how close you are to the finger lakes it might be worth your while to collect shale because they often have fossils embedded in them and are easily broken apart. In Ithaca (where I’m located) it’s relatively easy to find shale near Cayuga lake or anywhere that has exposed rocks like Taughannock state park or Truman state park or any of the other waterfalls nearby.
Highly recommend a rock hammer & chisels. They are inexpensive, but be careful where you carry them in NY, because some places you can collect without an issue, and other places you'll get in trouble. We tend to leave ours home and only break stuff open here, but So. Much. Easier.
I had a fantastic time with these two fossil videos. You really are one of the best content creators. I'm a subscriber, and watch every single one of your videos. Thank you so much for what is clearly a lot of time and effort on your behalf to bring such fascinating content to those who enjoy the subject material. You do a fantastic job, and I always find myself getting so happy when I see that Atlas Pro has posted a new video. Thanks again! Please keep up the incredible work!
17:00 With mountain building, in this case I'm guessing the Taconic Orogeny, we also get a lot of erosion. Bays and inlets and shallow seas that supported corals can get silted over, killing those life forms. I'm no expert, but it's my guess as to what that rock represents.
Wow, the last two videos was amazing, I love working on the field, and as I cannot do it everywhere, it's lovely to what peoples from onother continent can find
I've seen a video in how to crack big rocks apart before, the key is to use multiple pressure points. Think multiple nails/screws, not just one. And each one gets tapped in a little further until the total pressure breaks them....
I loved collecting fossils when I was young. I entered my collection in a NOLA school science fair where it was stolen. I never got back into it... Enjoy what you have.
Very interesting video! I really enjoyed it. But, wow, did I want to reach through the screen and hand you my geologist hammer! I’ve never seen a geologist trying to split a rock using a nail, and now we know why! Please keep making more like this!
Hello atlas pro your fossil review looks interesting what’s even more interesting is you may be right about the fossil being related to something like the ammonite. Though not from america you do find ammonites commonly in partials and the patterns of ammonites being small ridges spaced out make it look like something from an ammonite. If not maybe it could be some sort of fossil tree or an uncoiled ammonite Which is basically and Ammonite but it’s not curved and is just strait with the small bumps/ridges spaces out. Although an u coiled ammonite is least likely.
iin 28:07 you have 2 cosicle's crinoid, your fosil comes from Devonian Rocks, the ARCHAEOCYATHA is almost exclusive from Cambrian. I have the same fossils from Bolivia.
If you spend time in Winnipeg, you’ll notice that notable downtown buildings like the Legislature and Manitoba Museum are built of limestone that is rich in fossils, some quite large. This is the “Tyndall stone”, mined from around the small community of Tyndall, Manitoba.
I would recommend atlas if u think it’s something like a cephalopod dig it out to see what’s inside the rock. Because sometimes details are hidden inside and outside. I’d think it’s a partial of an ammonite
I have a few fossil too. Two Orthocones, a fern, and a big rock that I found in the Desert east of San Diego, California. It has fish, seashell fossils and imprints of some kind of seagrass. I originally was looking for geodes and happened upon that rock with all the fossils in it. I had a museum ask if I wanted to donate it but I polity declined and it's with the rest of my rock/crystal collection
5:04 hey, former part time palaeontologist here, you may be interested in looking at death assemblages versus life assemblages! Though bivalves and brachiopod can indeed live in large groups as seen in your fossil casts, these collections can also be found in 'death assemblages', for example when a partial sea floor shelf collapse concentrates a swathe of sea floor creatures into a smaller space, sometimes taking some of the water column creatures with it too! This can also happen in low oxygen conditions when, say, hundreds of thousands of ammonites die over the space of many thousands of years at one site, but their shells are preserved and stack upon one another before becoming lithified. This also applies to your conclusion at 17:30 ! Rise in preservation and fossil concentration does not necessarily equal a rise in life present at a particular time, life is rarely so simple (or straightforward for geologists!)
Ok next one! Brachiopods and bivalves are indeed a tricky one, but identifying hand specimens is generally a question of symmetry - if you look at one of the two shell parts of a brachiopod, it will have left to right symmetry, but one shell will be shaped differently to the other, one often curls around the other at the hinge. Bivalves on the other hand have two shells that are mirror images of one another. They may be symmetrical (like Pecten) or not, like the one you pictured when referencing your bivalve web search. Hope that helps!
Hey! Just wanted to chime in. Those stars on the Echinoderm rock are not baby Echinoderms, but rather I believe pieces of crinoid lily stems that have fragmented off! The star shape is like the lumen of the stem, filled in with sediment over time. Also, the crinoid skeleton is magnesium rich calcium, hence the different colour on the circle part around it
Just watched further and you covered it, but sea lilies are Echinoderms y’all! They’re the weird cousins of the starfish and urchins! I love those lil’ guys
I have a single fossil ...its a double on one side it has a pretty clear trilobite crustacean sort of thing on the other a curve of some ancient sea shell. How interesting
I would check out the channel Mamlambo Fossils to get an idea for what to look for with some fossils and how to approach extracting them from their respective rocks!
i think the best way to crack open without damaging them too much, would be to drill small holes arround it, then use a chisel with the hammer, great content as always, love it
I have an absolute plethora of fossils similar to these from around the Great Lakes. I wish I could send you some of the better examples somehow. It would help beef up your collection and give you some more content.
20:49 "technically this isn't the right tool for the job" 3 minutes later: "So, I'm admitting defeat for now, at least until I have the proper tools" Nice video, thank you 😄
To break them open you need to consider some physics. A screw or a nail will not cause it to break. Nor slamming them edge on. What you need to do is create a hit that will bend them beyond its elastic limit - which is not much movement, but then again - it is a hard material. All the gentle hits you did with your hammer are small enough to be absorbed by the material elastic capacity, and so are the slams you gave edge on. However. If you take three hard stones of gravel and place them as far apart as your rock allows, laying the rock flat above them practically on air and hit it in its center - it’s more likely to create a movement the rock will not be able to absorb, and thus, break.
Safety glasses! Where are your safety glasses???? As a lifelong rockhound, you need eye protection when breaking rocks open. So many flakes flying! Thanks for the video.
I enjoyed this video very much. Watched it while trying to relax, found it soothing and informative, and I would definitely be interested in more content like this. It makes me wish I pursued sciences instead of arts. You have a new subscriber :)
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My guy, as a science educator, your work keeps getting better and better. This is one of the coolest videos you've made. Your recent videos are really inspiring in the category of reminding folks that interesting history is all around us, and we never know what we might find if we just take the time to look.
A simple half inch Cole chisel is great for parting layers of rock - couple of bucks or maybe ten depending.. Find a seam or grove between the layers, line up the chisel blade and tap lightly a couple of times. Move the chisel along the seam and repeat until a long way around. If it doesn't work and split, start again and go deeper. Nice video Pro
Also safety goggles
Cole chisel or cold chisel?
@@jayyydizzzle Chold Chisel
@@dylan0003 lol
@@LeoiCaangWan twtttttttt
Fossils are seriously so cool. you can just look around the ground/stream and find hundreds of millions of years of history, right in your hand.
And extremely tasty
Ayo????
@@SolidChiefBoss no he means millions
@@SolidChiefBoss how’s he wrong?
Because it’s tasty
I have been an avid collector since childhood. Through the decades, I have lost my collection, sadly... ( long story) But at 60 years old, I have had an urge to rekindle my former passion for all things pertaining to fossils. I especially like trilobites, crinoids, sea slabs, echinoderms, bryozoans, and corals; but also fish and plant fossils. Videos such as this one help revitalize my interest.
10:09
That is one of my favorite fossil imprints
10:09 Ahh, yes. A fossilized "media offline" - my very favorite! 😂
23:06 I live in a private house and I smashed a ton of rocks, however generally big ones not as delicate as yours. I think you should've made small accurate cracks on the side, this way you not only could make it crack faster but also could divert where the crack will go, but I think the main thing you did wrong was taking a screw, screws are made to stay, you should've found a beefy nail or just used pliers and kept fixing a single(or a bunch) of nails again and again. Or you could buy an electric saw with disks name of which I don't know in English, it can even break concrete but you might need to find someone's garage because using it on the street is a bad idea
I expected this to be boring, but you made it as interesting and educational as every other video you produce. Loved it
I had no idea I was going to watch a video of a man smashing rocks today and utterly enjoy it :)
The best method I’ve found for splitting rocks is to drill a few pilot holes and hammer in wedges fairly gently to give more control over how the rock splits.
not many things can bring me back to that child sense of wonder, but i remember searching for fossils as a kid in the summer and havent much thought about it since. thanks for another interesting dive into a new world! always a good time here
This is literally my favourite TH-cam Chanel. Every video is top notch.
Looks like you might have a gastropod impression at 18:48 or so! Check out the little spiral! I'd be more inclined to call the brachiopod at 20:10 an internal mold, but very cool nevertheless. I'll also echo what others have said about getting a proper rock hammer. You'll want a chisel-tipped one for working with sedimentary rocks.
If you have a drill with a concrete bit, you can probably make a few intrusive holes that are less that 1/8 in across, minimizing damage to the fossils. Then using a chisel and possibly a 5lb sledge, you can hit the rock along your drilled holes to get a very clean opening
Watching a geologist (amature or pro) show off their collection of cool rocks they found is always entertaining. I had a geo teacher in high school that had a sand collection 😁
As a retired geological engineer I had a good laugh. I remember trying to collect a chunk of rose quartz from a huge bolder and failing. I even
Had a real rock hammer. You needed a larger set of tools. A large screw driver or a thin chisel. Would work and your want to hit the driver sharply, then move to the right or left and repeat. It will create a line along the cleavage. After several hits it will split. Anther option is to use a masonry bit and drill a series of small holes then drive a wedge in each hole in series and one little deeper on each hole. Email me and we can talk if you like
At work when splitting big rocks or parts of mountains we hit with a sledge and create like a line of stress in the rock by hitting in multiple places that all connects up to eventually splitt it in controlled manner, not sure how well it works on smaller rocks but could be worth try to learn (it's extremely easy) before buying a set of specialized tools.
12:35 I have one of them in my collection. I was hoping you would tell me what it is. Mine is from Bloomington IN and has one of the ends preserved, it tapers at the ends if thet helps. If you walk behind my house to the creek every single rock is made out of crinoid stems. I used to collect it when I was a kid but there's so many that you just can't take them all home. And out of the millions and millions and millions of chronic stems I have found one crinoid crown with the feeding tentacles. Just one that's how rare they are. I also have a handful that have fish scales and a bunch of seashells. 350 million years ago Morgan County Indiana was the epicenter of crinoids.
All this fossilhunting could make for a really cool collab with @PBS Eons
Thanks for this delightful video, in which I re-lived my own fossil hunting in the Helderbergs and on the shore of Lake Champlain more than a half century ago. Having just discovered your channel, I hope to see more of your interesting and informative presentations. Thanks.
Use a very hard chisel, such as cold chisels, mason or brick chisels, some of which are available with hand guards so that you can really hit them without risking hitting your hand. Wear eye protection goggles! A small sledgehammer is heavier than the nail hammer that you were using, and its extra weight will be more effective.
I've fossil hunted on the shores of Skaneateles Lake, and I've found a few small trilobite fossils before. They're not eurypterids, but trilobites can definitely be found in the most fossil rich areas of that Devonian rock.
Also, other people have said it, but a solid chisel is what you want to split those rocks. Works like a charm on that soft shale.
really enjoying the fossil content, especially from relatively nearby
This makes me want to go to the fossil beach here in the UK 😊😊
Do it!
Whitby and Lyme Regis are prolific providers.
@@Nx2.1 Lyme Regis is the one I was thinking of. Didn’t know about Whitby
@@Gingerchalky Perhaps you could follow in the steps of the noble Mary Anning, the palaeontologist that changed the world back in the day. The film "Ammonite" provides a reasonable appraisal of her life and achievements. Whitby was where I was born, Dorset is where I now reside.
Happy and safe hunting in which ever direction you choose to investigate.
Port Mulgrave is a great spot near Whitby
It's getting more interesting and the way of explaining makes it even more interesting....Thank you for the knowledge....
One of the best educational channels man - keep it up!
i grew up in northeastern ohio with a small creek in the woods behind my house. when i was 7 a tornado touched down for a bit on the creek which tore up an insane amount of trees. while sad for the trees, it exposed the roots which allowed me and my dad to dig around for fossils. tons of lil shells super similar to the ones in this video. long story short, this vid brought me back soooo many memories of spending afternoons trying to break open the rocks on the driveway, either with tools similar to the ones used in this or just chucking them at the ground and hoping for dinosaurs 😂 and despite never finding a sauropod, finding each tiny shell was truly magical experience! i hope this video inspires more people to explore the world around them 😁
Grew up in NE Ohio too. We had this big rock pile out back that my dad and mom had either dug up out of the garden or some other hole they were digging, and my sisters and I used to climb all over it looking for fossils. I eventually learned there were no dinosaur fossils in Ohio to my eternal disappointment but we did find lots and lots of imprint fossils!
Depending on how close you are to the finger lakes it might be worth your while to collect shale because they often have fossils embedded in them and are easily broken apart. In Ithaca (where I’m located) it’s relatively easy to find shale near Cayuga lake or anywhere that has exposed rocks like Taughannock state park or Truman state park or any of the other waterfalls nearby.
Epic and interesting. I loved watching you nerd out over your cool Fossil Collection.
I live in Appalachia too (North Carolina) and you’ve made me want to go the mountains and look for fossils myself!
I always enjoy seeing other people's fossil collections.
Highly recommend a rock hammer & chisels. They are inexpensive, but be careful where you carry them in NY, because some places you can collect without an issue, and other places you'll get in trouble. We tend to leave ours home and only break stuff open here, but So. Much. Easier.
I had a fantastic time with these two fossil videos. You really are one of the best content creators. I'm a subscriber, and watch every single one of your videos.
Thank you so much for what is clearly a lot of time and effort on your behalf to bring such fascinating content to those who enjoy the subject material. You do a fantastic job, and I always find myself getting so happy when I see that Atlas Pro has posted a new video. Thanks again! Please keep up the incredible work!
23:10 - MONKE SMASH ROCK 😂
17:00 With mountain building, in this case I'm guessing the Taconic Orogeny, we also get a lot of erosion. Bays and inlets and shallow seas that supported corals can get silted over, killing those life forms. I'm no expert, but it's my guess as to what that rock represents.
Wow, the last two videos was amazing, I love working on the field, and as I cannot do it everywhere, it's lovely to what peoples from onother continent can find
your videos feel like they have thier own lore to them with it all being interconnected
That bit of you trying to break open the rock was the biggest tease of the century
Ah yes posted 44 seconds ago, we early today
Same here for some reason but for me it's minutes
Early gang?
For me it was 17 minutes ago when video started
your intro gives me goosebumps every time, best intro on youtube.
Your collection rocks
I see what you did there
Amazing video, bringing attention to the smaller yet still very interesting fossils most people tend to overlook
So cool to have that many fossils on your doorstep! I go miles away to go fossil hunting haha. Great vid :)
A good day when I come across one of my favorite channels new videos this early!
I've seen a video in how to crack big rocks apart before, the key is to use multiple pressure points. Think multiple nails/screws, not just one. And each one gets tapped in a little further until the total pressure breaks them....
Hope you get to do a part 2 to this
A fantastic place in the U.S to look for fossils from many different periods that occurred after the dinosaurs is the Peace River in Florida
I loved collecting fossils when I was young. I entered my collection in a NOLA school science fair where it was stolen. I never got back into it... Enjoy what you have.
Fossils are so diverse and cool love em
I've loved these past 2 videos.
Oh! This could be a great collaboration opportunity for The Water Jet Channel!
Yess! Please do so, find and explain more of them) Can't wait to see it)
Being so early makes me feel like you’re watching a small, unknown channel. :)
23:00 and here we see the return to monke.
I was thinking the same thing
Congrats on 1 million subs dawg!!!
Different is good. Geology/geography... Same thing!
I don't mind you keeping things fresh!
Get rock splitting tools from Trow and Holden. Wedge and feather or a chisel that u can use to score the rock.
Very interesting video! I really enjoyed it. But, wow, did I want to reach through the screen and hand you my geologist hammer! I’ve never seen a geologist trying to split a rock using a nail, and now we know why! Please keep making more like this!
sometimes i find myself watching a dude talking about his rock collection and enjoying it. What a sunday
I really loved this video! Hope to see more like this soon 😃
When you were talking about the sponge family, you forgot about bob.
Those sea lily things are so gnarly, I like 'em!
Hello atlas pro your fossil review looks interesting what’s even more interesting is you may be right about the fossil being related to something like the ammonite. Though not from america you do find ammonites commonly in partials and the patterns of ammonites being small ridges spaced out make it look like something from an ammonite. If not maybe it could be some sort of fossil tree or an uncoiled ammonite Which is basically and Ammonite but it’s not curved and is just strait with the small bumps/ridges spaces out. Although an u coiled ammonite is least likely.
iin 28:07 you have 2 cosicle's crinoid, your fosil comes from Devonian Rocks, the ARCHAEOCYATHA is almost exclusive from Cambrian. I have the same fossils from Bolivia.
10:09 Looks like the echinoderms escaped from their rocks.
Good stuff, great that you're in such a prolific fossil belt.
If you spend time in Winnipeg, you’ll notice that notable downtown buildings like the Legislature and Manitoba Museum are built of limestone that is rich in fossils, some quite large. This is the “Tyndall stone”, mined from around the small community of Tyndall, Manitoba.
That super fascinating and I’m glad you’re willing to do stuff like this. Good luck on your future expeditions
I would recommend atlas if u think it’s something like a cephalopod dig it out to see what’s inside the rock. Because sometimes details are hidden inside and outside. I’d think it’s a partial of an ammonite
I have a few fossil too. Two Orthocones, a fern, and a big rock that I found in the Desert east of San Diego, California. It has fish, seashell fossils and imprints of some kind of seagrass. I originally was looking for geodes and happened upon that rock with all the fossils in it. I had a museum ask if I wanted to donate it but I polity declined and it's with the rest of my rock/crystal collection
5:04 hey, former part time palaeontologist here, you may be interested in looking at death assemblages versus life assemblages!
Though bivalves and brachiopod can indeed live in large groups as seen in your fossil casts, these collections can also be found in 'death assemblages', for example when a partial sea floor shelf collapse concentrates a swathe of sea floor creatures into a smaller space, sometimes taking some of the water column creatures with it too!
This can also happen in low oxygen conditions when, say, hundreds of thousands of ammonites die over the space of many thousands of years at one site, but their shells are preserved and stack upon one another before becoming lithified.
This also applies to your conclusion at 17:30 ! Rise in preservation and fossil concentration does not necessarily equal a rise in life present at a particular time, life is rarely so simple (or straightforward for geologists!)
I also suspect 12:30 is a cast of the exterior of an ammonoid shell, but it's hard to tell!
Ok next one! Brachiopods and bivalves are indeed a tricky one, but identifying hand specimens is generally a question of symmetry - if you look at one of the two shell parts of a brachiopod, it will have left to right symmetry, but one shell will be shaped differently to the other, one often curls around the other at the hinge.
Bivalves on the other hand have two shells that are mirror images of one another. They may be symmetrical (like Pecten) or not, like the one you pictured when referencing your bivalve web search.
Hope that helps!
Lovely video, I'd definitely recommend a cheap chisel to try again to split the rocks, but sometimes it just won't happen!
Beautiful specimens!
your sound design is so good to.
I came here after twitter recommended your tweet about the missing clip and now I'm subscribed. 😂👍🏼
I love the part where you were smashing the rock, it's so out of character and refreshing to see you talk casually in real life😂
Very Nice, I hope that you find more to show us!
Hey! Just wanted to chime in. Those stars on the Echinoderm rock are not baby Echinoderms, but rather I believe pieces of crinoid lily stems that have fragmented off! The star shape is like the lumen of the stem, filled in with sediment over time. Also, the crinoid skeleton is magnesium rich calcium, hence the different colour on the circle part around it
Just watched further and you covered it, but sea lilies are Echinoderms y’all! They’re the weird cousins of the starfish and urchins! I love those lil’ guys
It's amazing what's around you if you only know where and what your looking at
Good rock video
Good one .. thoroughly enjoyed. Definitely waiting for the second video :0)
10:09 haha when you deleted a file and didn't rewatch the video, so relatable
I have a single fossil ...its a double on one side it has a pretty clear trilobite crustacean sort of thing on the other a curve of some ancient sea shell. How interesting
I would check out the channel Mamlambo Fossils to get an idea for what to look for with some fossils and how to approach extracting them from their respective rocks!
I went for a walk last year and on the framers fields and found 5-6 devils toe nails clumped around each other on one rock.
i think the best way to crack open without damaging them too much, would be to drill small holes arround it, then use a chisel with the hammer, great content as always, love it
I love your videos. My only request is to upload them in 4K 60fps
The spiral/ corkscrew type fossil is called Archimedes.
Thank you for uploading this informative video. It helped me in identifying several of my own fossils I've found in my local area.
Fantastic video. More like this please.
Hey thanks for delivering on my fossil/rock request.
I did it all for you!
Tries to smash a rock
Meanwhile the captions: Applause
Love this, great collection!
I have an absolute plethora of fossils similar to these from around the Great Lakes. I wish I could send you some of the better examples somehow. It would help beef up your collection and give you some more content.
20:49 "technically this isn't the right tool for the job"
3 minutes later: "So, I'm admitting defeat for now, at least until I have the proper tools"
Nice video, thank you 😄
To break them open you need to consider some physics. A screw or a nail will not cause it to break. Nor slamming them edge on. What you need to do is create a hit that will bend them beyond its elastic limit - which is not much movement, but then again - it is a hard material. All the gentle hits you did with your hammer are small enough to be absorbed by the material elastic capacity, and so are the slams you gave edge on.
However. If you take three hard stones of gravel and place them as far apart as your rock allows, laying the rock flat above them practically on air and hit it in its center - it’s more likely to create a movement the rock will not be able to absorb, and thus, break.
Came from Twitter to see the offline video clip... Stayed for the interesting fossil info
Very nice video . Keep up the good work
You, could talk more about the Paleozoic like the permian ,carboniferous or the cambrian.
Safety glasses! Where are your safety glasses???? As a lifelong rockhound, you need eye protection when breaking rocks open. So many flakes flying! Thanks for the video.
Try a bricklayer's hammer, it would probably come in handy out in the field too
it begins, may you never stop collecting
I enjoyed this video very much. Watched it while trying to relax, found it soothing and informative, and I would definitely be interested in more content like this. It makes me wish I pursued sciences instead of arts. You have a new subscriber :)