I've found a few remains of Jurassic turtle in a sloped hill in Portugal, and now I am determined to find more remains of ancient creatures whilst waiting to apply for a volunteer at the lab!
My parents and I were introduced to shark tooth hunting when I was 6, a lady showed me a few that she had found and I was instantly hooked. Over the years we've filled up several mason jars full of teeth, and now I can't walk down the beach without keeping my eyes fixed on the sand looking for the distinctive black triangle shape.
If you are ever in Canada, check out Joggins Fossil Cliffs in Nova Scotia. The highest tides in the world actively erode cliffs that reveal fossils from the Carboniferous , plants 100 million years older than dinosaurs can be found in rocks and there's a huge imprint of an ancient tree trunk. Found here was also the remains of earliest known reptile in the history of life. Great place.
Oh boy, Worm Week is making a comeback! Crossovers sure are fun. I love how you didn't take the tie-rip off the sieve before filming this, by the way. Nice touch.
When I was in middle school, we had some paleontologists come in and they had us dig out shark teeth out of a pile of rocks and dirt as a fun little thing. After that they just... Dumped out the rest of the shark teeth? In a patch of dirt behind the school. Every one went NUTS, every day there was like 10-15 people cramped in that tiny spot digging for teeth. None of us ever put two and two together, and we started thinking the area our town was in must've been underwater millions of years ago. We couldn't explain why it was just that one spot though. I miss that
I dig you and Doug digging in the sand and hope you dug digging with Doug in the sand👍👍 I think the best places to look for fossils (other than a museum lol!) Is at the bottom of cliffs on pebbled beaches. If in the, North Yorks, Whitby area you can also find Jet if you're lucky.
I remember the first fossil I found myself. It was on my first campout as a Boy Scout, and part of the trip was going to this former coal mining area in Illinois, and we basically got free reign to just go looking for fossils there since it's been a pretty fruitful formation in the past. There, I found myself a Tully Monster. Definitely one of my fondest memories.
I’ve been fossil hunting for years. It’s always been such a amazing experience when you find something, which could vary from anything to a shark tooth or a mammoth femur, knowing that you are quite possibly the first human to ever encounter that specific animal which without you would’ve been lost in time. Florida has such a rich fossil hunting experiences, hence how I really got into paleontology in the first place at such a young age.
I fossil hunt at my home all the time. One time I was in my backyard I thought I had found armor plating? I love fossil hunting. Great video Ben I love it.
Some of my friends and I were collecting selenium slabs in Ocotilli Flats, a desert region in Southern California, when I spotted a large fossilized oyster shell... a great find! Fossil hunting is so much fun... just like your channel! Thank you!
I live in ohio not far from hocking hills. It’s known for its subarctic flora even though we’re nowhere near the subarctic. These resulted from seeds and spores being pushed and washed down from glacial melt water. What isn’t as well known is the area was below sea level hundreds of millions of years ago and we find shark teeth....in appalachia.
Several years ago, my mom, brother and I went to this little beach in Florida (sorry, can't remember which city or beach) where we found several fossilized shark teeth. We even carried them in a couple of ziplock bags. Unfortunately, we seemed to have lost them at some point. It's still awesome that you guys got to do this, especially for Shark Week.
@@planetaxolotl4398 my parents think that Paleontologists don't earn much and there is small scope for the profession in my country. And they don't want to send me abroad ig. I planned to study in Canada if not America. But with my dreams dead, those universities don't matter anymore :(
When I was a kid, I had been to sandpits in Germany with my father and panned out dozens of fossilized big shark teeth. The area around Mainz used to be a very populated part of sea (ages ago).
I have never been fossil hunting but it looks really fun and just watching Ben's videos I want to learn more about science not just biology anymore but a bit of every type of science and so far I have enjoyed shark week.
Why you've gotta use plastic baggies, gem jars, riker mounts, &/or floating mounts xD. But really, hard to beat bang for buck in plastic baggies & gem jars (off eBay fairly cheap) & put on same shelves or drawers. Never lost 1 at home or moving far as I know (only one partial Meg during or after a fossil hunt, but probably user error, but while fossil hunting highly reccommend small nail aprons that tie around your waist from home improvement stores, never lost anything big or small from em)
You gentlemen are collecting along what geologists term a Transgressive Surface of Erosion (TSE). Modern sea level rise and continuous wave action erode the Eocene formation you mentioned and winnow out the clay and silt. The process works to concentrate things by mass. The shells you're finding are heavy by virtue of their size. The shark teeth and fish bones are concentrated by virtue of the higher density of their phosphatic mineralogy. This phenomenon is happening all around the Atlantic margin as modern sea level rises. On the US Atlantic coastal plain the same process concentrates garnets and other heavy minerals eroding out of the Appalachian Mtns. Ancient TSE's often appear on outcrop as thin, well cemented shelves or benches between softer layers
We always find sharks teeth on Galveston beaches. We assume they are from recent sharks, not fossils. Our fossil teeth come from cretaceous limestone and gravels north of Dallas.
Thats a tiny tiger shark tooth. A great place to find shark teeth in the UK is Walton on the Naze in Essex which represents a possible ancient shark ray fish and whale nursery and pupping ground based on the edge of a possible mangrove swamp
I don’t have access to a beach where I’m at, and I haven’t found many fossils in my time. But a friend of mine showed me a fossil of a prehistoric tree in the rock on a mountain side. We couldn’t take it with us because it was in a state park and there’s a sign that points it out on the trail were on. The closest thing I’ve found to a fossil are a couple of Native American arrowheads and a spear point they was broken. Plus a few flakes where that were discarded as they made the tools.
Walk along the dirt roads in Central Kansas after a rain and you will find plenty of fossils, including shark's teeth. I found a megalodon tooth in the '80's that I donated to a museum.
You two are so lucky with where you live. At least for this sort of activity. Only a few years ago I discovered why there are essentially no fossils where I grew up - the land is made up of beds laid down just after the dinosaur extinction event. :-(
I confirm this. Venice Beach, Florida is the must-go-to place for fossilized shark teeth. If you cant find 100 in a short period of time, then your eyes are closed 😂😂
I found various ammonites in Folkestone on a Geology field trip in 2013. I think I kept them in a small plastic bag and left it in my jacket pocket. In late 2014, that jacket went missing. I miss the jacket and wish I didn't lose those ammonites. They were remarkable.
I love finding fossils is our vacation spot up in nova Scotia, Canada. There are 100 feet cliffs that have similar beaches to that of the beach of where you are. I love hunting for stigmaria and other fauna. cool discord btw lol.
Hi Guys Love the videos. Maybe bring a bucket next time (if allowed) and just remove the sand and bring the bucket of stuff home to sort out. it will give you time to look in detail and find many interesting small things. good luck
I want to go hunt the chalk in Kansas for one of the fossilized specimens. I have found shark teeth in Wyoming, including a bunch of crusher and ray teeth. Good luck and keep looking!
We have some great spots around here, one of the best is the upper manatee river on the insides of the bends. You can find so many old shark teeth you can fill a ziplock bag with them! I haven't found any Megalodon teeth yet, but they are there.
i have lots of good fossil hunting locations near me here in Los Angeles. a friend and myself found the first recorded Megaladon Tooth in the Santa Monica Mountains back in the 1980's... Watching this video makes me want get back out and hunt fossils locally.. once it cools down.
I have heard Denmark is a good place to find fossilized craps 5:44 to 5:45 on the back left there are to Turritella shell’s one big broken one and one smaller
Shark teeth “surf” the incoming wave and as the wave recedes there will be a flash of black. The teeth “surf” slightly downslope and bury themselves in the sand just under the surface. Remember that if you take something, leave something. A pinch of sage or tobacco. A piece of your hair. A prayer.
Just get a shovel and start digging in your garden till you hit something could be the previous owners shovel from the 50s but still cool or you could find a really cool rock
I'm not weird everyone else is weird and I'm normal Haha I should. The soil in my area is really bad (just a ton of shale and clay) but I bet it’s still interesting to look through (:
For this location. Sieve for teeth in the sand at the bottom of the shingle beach in the greenish (when wet) sand (Brackelsham Green Sands) [ I dont sieve ] Walk towards Selsey from car park scanning the sand on the beach for anything with three sides (shark) or black with a slight curve (ray plates) also look for points with ridges both sides (sting ray spine). I like scannening walking close to waters edge looking in sand and sea edge All fosil teeth can be as small as 3mm to over 70mm with between 1 and 3 points. Turtel shell and fish bones also wash out. Also find odd seaweed shaped flat gritty gray stones as are Fosils of sea weed turned to metal maganese from Selsey Formation. Marsh Farm reported to have Mamoth fosils, tusks teeth and bones. Some of the Turritella fosils are so well preserved they get hermit crabs in. All white fosil shells will turn to dust if taken home and dried, so paint with clear (or nail) varnish. Where sea laps the shore fosils common in the surf, like a giant gold sluce fosils come to the top. Marsh farm formation starts just after the long groin with green basket on the top at video 4:17mins, onshore drift washes fosils from there back towards Brackelsham so not worth going past this point. Best on spring tides after an onshore windy day. My best haul in a day here was 50+ teeth and plates inc 5cm and 6cm teeth, worst ever was 1 off 3mm almost invisable tooth. Hern Bay on Kent north coast is well known for Megaladon teeth size of dinner plates along with many other shark teeth (search youtube).. IMPORTANT:- DO NOT DIG THE "CLAY" LET THE SEA WASH FOSILS OUT ALL FOSILS AT BRACKELSHAM ARE DELICATE AND WONT COME OUT OF SUBSTRATE WHOLE
I was about to say "but theres no ocean near me, I can't fossil hunt here" and then I realized I live in the state where the stegosaurus was discovered.
I've found a few remains of Jurassic turtle in a sloped hill in Portugal, and now I am determined to find more remains of ancient creatures whilst waiting to apply for a volunteer at the lab!
What!? That's awesome. Can you say which region it was?
@@diogonunes1865 They were in Lourinha, the famous place where Jurassic remains were discovered, and it's museum and dino-park is worth a visit!
@@diogonunes1865 in the Centro Region, specifically in the subregion Oeste.
Nice bro.
@@FredstarOfBritain thx will definitely be going there more
2:21 Ah, the elusive "horse foot shoe thing" - fine specimen!
Ya mean hoof
@@benjiewasquin3451 Nope. Definitely distinct species of horse foot. 2:21
@@theextraordinaryexperience oh ok
Worm week invades shark week
Well your not wrong
It's just the first step towards complete worm-world domination
THE WORMS ARE GOING TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD
and I'd be fine with it, cause every week on Ben G. Thomas will be worm week!
@@newtscamander7713 Wrong
@@trurlCXC Wrong
Doug the amateur fossil hunter: AND NOW OVER TO BEN to explain all about it in the voice-over.
Fossil hunting is truly a magical experience
Not as much as fossil fighting
It really is. I love doing it!
Both are arguably the best. Something magical about it that Lego just can't quite match.
My parents and I were introduced to shark tooth hunting when I was 6, a lady showed me a few that she had found and I was instantly hooked. Over the years we've filled up several mason jars full of teeth, and now I can't walk down the beach without keeping my eyes fixed on the sand looking for the distinctive black triangle shape.
Don't you mean that you where instantly caught?
I’m enjoying Doug going full Caligula.
I think I'm one of about 8 people here who gets that joke.
Doug arguing with the ocean is such a mood lmao
Why does Ben have the most soothing voice in the world?
A gypsy's curse
cause he is English lol
Because you're gay.
@@caseythorne7552 that too
@@hocuspocus111 I've been stuck in quarantine too long - Canada please take over fix us I'm objectifying the fossil guy. 😦☺️
Advice for finding shark teeth on a beach: Take off your shoes and socks and walk around bare-foot.
Ow I stepped on a shark tooth!
Thar's the point
Maybe not in L.A., you'll step on a used hypodermic needle.
@@pickles3128 in South Texas, you'll find nothing but battered stetsons and old BBQ pits.
If you are ever in Canada, check out Joggins Fossil Cliffs in Nova Scotia. The highest tides in the world actively erode cliffs that reveal fossils from the Carboniferous , plants 100 million years older than dinosaurs can be found in rocks and there's a huge imprint of an ancient tree trunk. Found here was also the remains of earliest known reptile in the history of life. Great place.
Oh boy, Worm Week is making a comeback! Crossovers sure are fun.
I love how you didn't take the tie-rip off the sieve before filming this, by the way. Nice touch.
I like how there's more worms than sharks in a Shark Week video.
When I was in middle school, we had some paleontologists come in and they had us dig out shark teeth out of a pile of rocks and dirt as a fun little thing. After that they just... Dumped out the rest of the shark teeth? In a patch of dirt behind the school. Every one went NUTS, every day there was like 10-15 people cramped in that tiny spot digging for teeth. None of us ever put two and two together, and we started thinking the area our town was in must've been underwater millions of years ago. We couldn't explain why it was just that one spot though. I miss that
These irl videos are really neat, you could do some more every now and then
How can shark week get any better?
i’m from southern california, so watching people fully dressed walk around the beach was an experience. congrats on the shark fossil!!!
Shark tooth hunting is hands down my favorite beach activity, I could spend hours scavenging the shore for them
There's a boulder in the park near my house that's full of fossil clams. I've never seen my nieces so excited as when I showed them.
I dig you and Doug digging in the sand and hope you dug digging with Doug in the sand👍👍
I think the best places to look for fossils (other than a museum lol!) Is at the bottom of cliffs on pebbled beaches. If in the, North Yorks, Whitby area you can also find Jet if you're lucky.
Do be prepared to find teeth
*Lots of Teeth*
In fact *only* teeth :[
Sharks do be boneless
@@matteussilvestre8583 *🅱🅾NELESS* chicken obligatory reference!
@@matteussilvestre8583 spittin fax
Fossil hunting is truly something special. I live in Hawaii where there are mainly Gastropod fossils but it still is truly still amazing
Alternate title: What happens when you take your nerdy friends to the beach.
I'm 1000s of miles from the nearest beach and don't have any paleontology loving friends. Thanks for bringing us along on your little adventure!
I remember the first fossil I found myself.
It was on my first campout as a Boy Scout, and part of the trip was going to this former coal mining area in Illinois, and we basically got free reign to just go looking for fossils there since it's been a pretty fruitful formation in the past. There, I found myself a Tully Monster. Definitely one of my fondest memories.
I love how Ben is superprofessional and Doug's just like, vlogging hehe.
I’ve been fossil hunting for years. It’s always been such a amazing experience when you find something, which could vary from anything to a shark tooth or a mammoth femur, knowing that you are quite possibly the first human to ever encounter that specific animal which without you would’ve been lost in time.
Florida has such a rich fossil hunting experiences, hence how I really got into paleontology in the first place at such a young age.
Bigfoot confirmed at Bracklesham Beach
Lol, you call that big? Those shoes probably wouldn't even fit on my size 16s.
I fossil hunt at my home all the time. One time I was in my backyard I thought I had found armor plating? I love fossil hunting. Great video Ben I love it.
Some of my friends and I were collecting selenium slabs in Ocotilli Flats, a desert region in Southern California, when I spotted a large fossilized oyster shell... a great find!
Fossil hunting is so much fun... just like your channel!
Thank you!
Doug's improvisation is surprisingly entertaining.
I live in ohio not far from hocking hills. It’s known for its subarctic flora even though we’re nowhere near the subarctic. These resulted from seeds and spores being pushed and washed down from glacial melt water. What isn’t as well known is the area was below sea level hundreds of millions of years ago and we find shark teeth....in appalachia.
3:07 and this is why I don't wear shoes at the beach
As a kid i’ve spent hours looking for shark teeth whenever i visited the beach. I actually found quite a lot of them. Now I’m studying paleontology :)
Ben: you and your team produce terrific videos. I hope you can continue this effort for a long time. Cheers!
Several years ago, my mom, brother and I went to this little beach in Florida (sorry, can't remember which city or beach) where we found several fossilized shark teeth. We even carried them in a couple of ziplock bags. Unfortunately, we seemed to have lost them at some point.
It's still awesome that you guys got to do this, especially for Shark Week.
I wish I could be a paleoboy. My parents killed my dream. Bring me back to life
What happened?
The fire nation attacked
@@planetaxolotl4398 my parents think that Paleontologists don't earn much and there is small scope for the profession in my country. And they don't want to send me abroad ig. I planned to study in Canada if not America. But with my dreams dead, those universities don't matter anymore :(
I panned for shark teeth in a river in Florida when I was in school. I found some teeth, ray teeth, turtle shell, etc. Good times.
“This tiny little... well, Ben can tell you what it is right now”
When I was a kid, I had been to sandpits in Germany with my father and panned out dozens of fossilized big shark teeth. The area around Mainz used to be a very populated part of sea (ages ago).
Ben - where can I get your T-shirt?
Another cracking video, thanks Ben and Doug!
I have never been fossil hunting but it looks really fun and just watching Ben's videos I want to learn more about science not just biology anymore but a bit of every type of science and so far I have enjoyed shark week.
Love the segment. Love the mudworm castings. Questions abound as to why you are wearing shoes at the beach.
I found a tiger shark tooth at a beach several years ago sadly I lost it yesterday
Why you've gotta use plastic baggies, gem jars, riker mounts, &/or floating mounts xD. But really, hard to beat bang for buck in plastic baggies & gem jars (off eBay fairly cheap) & put on same shelves or drawers. Never lost 1 at home or moving far as I know (only one partial Meg during or after a fossil hunt, but probably user error, but while fossil hunting highly reccommend small nail aprons that tie around your waist from home improvement stores, never lost anything big or small from em)
You gentlemen are collecting along what geologists term a Transgressive Surface of Erosion (TSE). Modern sea level rise and continuous wave action erode the Eocene formation you mentioned and winnow out the clay and silt. The process works to concentrate things by mass. The shells you're finding are heavy by virtue of their size. The shark teeth and fish bones are concentrated by virtue of the higher density of their phosphatic mineralogy. This phenomenon is happening all around the Atlantic margin as modern sea level rises. On the US Atlantic coastal plain the same process concentrates garnets and other heavy minerals eroding out of the Appalachian Mtns. Ancient TSE's often appear on outcrop as thin, well cemented shelves or benches between softer layers
My dad liked to go hunting for trilobite fossils and we often took time out of our vacations to look.
03:30 - Is that a bit of unicorn horn? :P
It's from a sea unicorn, they're like sea horses, but hornier.
Every anime has it's own beach episode.
We always find sharks teeth on Galveston beaches. We assume they are from recent sharks, not fossils.
Our fossil teeth come from cretaceous limestone and gravels north of Dallas.
The camera exposure is the same as when you have the gamma all the way up in Ark Survival Evolved
I found fossilised worm casts surrounding an ichthyosaurs spine bone segment On the Dorset coast.
That's pretty cool. Also dig your T-Rex shirt.
This is the first time I see this species of seahorse
You fellows would love Venice Florida, commonly called the shark tooth capital of the world.
I wish I I had friends like the two of you. So hard to find simpatico companions where I'm from.🙂🙂
Thats a tiny tiger shark tooth. A great place to find shark teeth in the UK is Walton on the Naze in Essex which represents a possible ancient shark ray fish and whale nursery and pupping ground based on the edge of a possible mangrove swamp
oh boy ben, I sure was looking for a new enjoyable and gratifying activity but it looks like I've found it now
I don’t have access to a beach where I’m at, and I haven’t found many fossils in my time. But a friend of mine showed me a fossil of a prehistoric tree in the rock on a mountain side. We couldn’t take it with us because it was in a state park and there’s a sign that points it out on the trail were on. The closest thing I’ve found to a fossil are a couple of Native American arrowheads and a spear point they was broken. Plus a few flakes where that were discarded as they made the tools.
Walk along the dirt roads in Central Kansas after a rain and you will find plenty of fossils, including shark's teeth. I found a megalodon tooth in the '80's that I donated to a museum.
You two are so lucky with where you live. At least for this sort of activity.
Only a few years ago I discovered why there are essentially no fossils where I grew up - the land is made up of beds laid down just after the dinosaur extinction event. :-(
In Venice Beach, Florida there are so many shark teeth on the beach that you'd have to pick a few shells out of the pile of them in each sieve.
I confirm this. Venice Beach, Florida is the must-go-to place for fossilized shark teeth. If you cant find 100 in a short period of time, then your eyes are closed 😂😂
@@Noble4Truths Lol, like 35 years ago you could scoop them up by the handful.
I found various ammonites in Folkestone on a Geology field trip in 2013. I think I kept them in a small plastic bag and left it in my jacket pocket. In late 2014, that jacket went missing. I miss the jacket and wish I didn't lose those ammonites. They were remarkable.
Lucky find. Way to go! Love your channel. Cheers :)
WOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRMMMMMMMMMSSSSSSSSSS!!!!! They've 'wormed' their way into a Shark Week videol, lol!
Fossil hunting is an incredibly fun, amazing and great activity!
Which i most likely wouldn't get to experience and succeed in it
Gosh he's so serious and it's a vlog
This was such a funny video omg ! Doug being surprised at how big that guys foot was !!! 😳😳😳😲😲😲
I love finding fossils is our vacation spot up in nova Scotia, Canada. There are 100 feet cliffs that have similar beaches to that of the beach of where you are. I love hunting for stigmaria and other fauna. cool discord btw lol.
Hi Guys Love the videos. Maybe bring a bucket next time (if allowed) and just remove the sand and bring the bucket of stuff home to sort out. it will give you time to look in detail and find many interesting small things. good luck
Wow such a wonderful place to be
Best beach episode ever.
I want to go hunt the chalk in Kansas for one of the fossilized specimens. I have found shark teeth in Wyoming, including a bunch of crusher and ray teeth. Good luck and keep looking!
We have a beach in Melbourne, Beamauris.
Lots of urchin fossils, shells.
Shark teeth too. I found a fossil seabird skull, also fossil dolphin teeth.
We have some great spots around here, one of the best is the upper manatee river on the insides of the bends. You can find so many old shark teeth you can fill a ziplock bag with them! I haven't found any Megalodon teeth yet, but they are there.
Aberdeen Scotland here! Going fossil hunting tomorrow!
This is the first time I've seen what you guys actually look like and I've gotta say you look really cute, Ben :)
i have lots of good fossil hunting locations near me here in Los Angeles. a friend and myself found the first recorded Megaladon Tooth in the Santa Monica Mountains back in the 1980's...
Watching this video makes me want get back out and hunt fossils locally.. once it cools down.
Lee/hill head is part of the bed of the bracklesham group
I remember messing with a shovel as a kid one day and finding a weird rock and thought I found a Tyrannosaurus tooth.
You guys are awesome, great idea to list places where amateurs can find fossils
Dude there was a triceratops skull in there how could you have missed it
Imagine randomly finding a Livyatan skull complete with it's massive teeth on a beach
0:46 I guess you could call that a... seahorse
I live on Calvert Cliffs and go do this whenever I can
I have heard Denmark is a good place to find fossilized craps
5:44 to 5:45 on the back left there are to Turritella shell’s one big broken one and one smaller
I would love to try this one day.
Ben I love your shirt!
makes me want to go fossil hunting again, just wish the river where I go looking would go down already.
Shark teeth “surf” the incoming wave and as the wave recedes there will be a flash of black. The teeth “surf” slightly downslope and bury themselves in the sand just under the surface. Remember that if you take something, leave something. A pinch of sage or tobacco. A piece of your hair. A prayer.
Another great place nearby is Lee on Solent and you can find loads of sharks teeth there
I have to do this if I ever get the chance to go to the ocean again, I didn't realize how fossil rich the sand can be
Need to look for Beaches in Cali that are fossil hotspots. The Grand Canyon had a lot of fossils which was cool to look at with my class.
The sand kind of looks like ones you would see in Zen gardens. In fact I think this IS where they get it
I found a really good spot on a shingle/clay spot but it’s only accessible at really low tide
Nice warm subtropical sea
Past life proof found!
I love these videos. I’ve never fossil hunted before but it’s something I really want to do.
Just get a shovel and start digging in your garden till you hit something could be the previous owners shovel from the 50s but still cool or you could find a really cool rock
I'm not weird everyone else is weird and I'm normal
Haha I should. The soil in my area is really bad (just a ton of shale and clay) but I bet it’s still interesting to look through (:
@@bird2034 I tried to do that when I was 7 or something and i broke my foot long story literally involving a partrage in a pear a tree
For this location.
Sieve for teeth in the sand at the bottom of the shingle beach in the greenish (when wet) sand (Brackelsham Green Sands)
[ I dont sieve ]
Walk towards Selsey from car park scanning the sand on the beach for anything with three sides (shark) or black with a slight curve (ray plates) also look for points with ridges both sides (sting ray spine). I like scannening walking close to waters edge looking in sand and sea edge
All fosil teeth can be as small as 3mm to over 70mm with between 1 and 3 points. Turtel shell and fish bones also wash out.
Also find odd seaweed shaped flat gritty gray stones as are Fosils of sea weed turned to metal maganese from Selsey Formation.
Marsh Farm reported to have Mamoth fosils, tusks teeth and bones.
Some of the Turritella fosils are so well preserved they get hermit crabs in. All white fosil shells will turn to dust if taken home and dried, so paint with clear (or nail) varnish.
Where sea laps the shore fosils common in the surf, like a giant gold sluce fosils come to the top.
Marsh farm formation starts just after the long groin with green basket on the top at video 4:17mins, onshore drift washes fosils from there back towards Brackelsham so not worth going past this point. Best on spring tides after an onshore windy day.
My best haul in a day here was 50+ teeth and plates inc 5cm and 6cm teeth, worst ever was 1 off 3mm almost invisable tooth.
Hern Bay on Kent north coast is well known for Megaladon teeth size of dinner plates along with many other shark teeth (search youtube)..
IMPORTANT:-
DO NOT DIG THE "CLAY" LET THE SEA WASH FOSILS OUT
ALL FOSILS AT BRACKELSHAM ARE DELICATE AND WONT COME OUT OF SUBSTRATE WHOLE
Do a video on the ironclad beetle
how nice all i can find near me are viking stone axes and stuff like that
I was about to say "but theres no ocean near me, I can't fossil hunt here" and then I realized I live in the state where the stegosaurus was discovered.