i might be able to but space is an issue. every corner in the house is stacked up with rocks, teeth, relics, artifacts, and gear. cool stuff to be sure, but it doesn't leave much room for a life size meg jaw! maybe if I win the lottery 🤔
@@blackriverfossils I was thinking. Maybe have the entire jaw 3D printed in sections. And mount the teeth according to size and position to that. Easy to reassemble wherever. Done right, a collector could easily pay $100K for such a wall mount. Maybe more.
My Dad worked on or ran fishing boats most of his life and he had collected the jaws and teeth of sharks to make a display he mounted up with a huge set and then on the inside of those it gradually got smaller and smaller to a baby set
@@staceyroberts3468that’s sick as hell, it’s my dream to be able to just go out and find shark teeth and do something like this but I live in Canada in the middle of nowhere 🖐️😭
There it is! I was out this weekend for a little over a day and found a good seam of gravel in the Megalodon nursery. Just a beater juvenile find and some frags, but I’ll take it until I can make the trip again. Awesome to come back and see this video!
There's a reptile store in Colorado that sells megedon teeth and bugs candy and fish and scorpions and taretulas and congrats on your finds and God bless you too
Diva’s sass is is at peak performance in this video! 😂 *chef’s kiss* I don’t blame her! I’d be annoyed with your near perfect fossils too! Lol! Great vid, dude! Y’all seriously make the best team. I almost don’t wanna see a vid without both of you. I’m proud for ya! 🫡 Amazing.
do you think any of the teeth you have found at the site are associated? I know it’s basically impossible to tell but the amount of teeth in that one small area makes me think that at least some of them are
thanks! My girlfriend was the one who found this spot. she's a beast when it comes to exploring. not that i haven't found my share of spots too but i gotta give credit where credit is due.
I live in Wilmington, N.C. Don't find many mega up here. Occasionally a few will pop up after storms at Topsail Beach. Gotta come down south and get in those creeks...
if you do come down here hunting, you gotta get out away from civilization. the creeks in town get a ton of collecting so there aren't a lot of big ones coming out of them.
Love your videos. Long time subscriber. Been fossil hunting for about 20 years here in N. Central FL. My biggest have been in the 3 - 3 1/4 range. One day I'm gonna make it up there to S.C. and find some of those monsters. Keep up the great work.
Thanks for the complement! I appreciate you watching. The teeth might be smaller down where you hunt but I betcha they are in a lot better shape. We just went diving down in Venice a couple weeks ago and a dude on the boat found one just under 6 inches so you can find the big ones down there too. Best of luck to you!
@@blackriverfossils oh for sure. I'm in the Gainesville area and do a lot of creek walking. You're not allowed to use any kind of tools or sifter now though because of erosion issues but you can top spot them pretty well. My biggest was a top spot. And the color/condition is crazy. I have a little 2" posterior meg that is almost pristine serrations and shine and some Giant Mako that are still almost razors. Lol. I did find the top corner of a root that had to be a 4-5 inches though. I haven't had the pleasure of diving for any yet.
@@Newblar we hunted teeth in gainesville once. Didn't find much but we processed some micro matrix there that we haven't gone through yet. We heard there were nurse shark teeth in it, and that's why we went. Diving is awesome man. The conditions down in Venice are amazing right now. The visibility is so good we could see the boat from the bottom. every day we were there someone on the boat found good sized meg teeth.
megalodon as a species frequented this region to feed on the whales here. the sharks lost teeth which fell to the ocean floor, got covered by sediment and fossilized. over time the ocean level fluctuated and eroded away all those deposits, redepositing them all in the same strata. that happened a bunch of times over millions of years. during the ice age the ocean level fell again and rivers flowed through this area, eroding out all those deposits and piled them together just like modern rivers do. finally, excavation for a borrow pit exposed the deposits created by one of those ice age river flows and that's why there is so much here. this video just concentrated on the plethora of megalodon teeth, but there were all kinds of ice age animals in those deposits too. there were elephants, horses, tapirs, giant sloths, and more which you can see in my Sloth Party playlist. it was truly a remarkable site. thanks for watching and for the sub!
i'm just an amateur fossil hunter so I don't offer tours. lots of people around do though so you shouldn't have any problems finding someone. good luck on your hunt!
I envy you so much, in UK the only places that have megalodon teeth to be found are on a very small stretch of coast, and they are so rare the most well known for them only averages finding 10 a year. I'm hoping with recent weather might find one soon.
What places do you look for when searching? Are you digging in this video on the beach or is it kind of a long like the intercoastal? I also wanted to ask do you just start digging in the sand somewhere or do you go in the water? I know some beaches you can’t dig anything in the water.
Just insane man, cant believe there can be that many from one spot. And i find it awesome that #100 is such a badass tooth. Congrats! And heres to 764 more 😂
there are places in Canada where you can find dinosaur fossils but I don't know of anywhere you can find shark teeth. Sharks have been around a long time though, so there must be some there somewhere.
Is this a public location? I’m from Maryland and I fossil hunt around Calvert cliffs. I’ve been going there since a child. I’ve found thousands of teeth but I just found my first megs on the same day a week ago. I’d love to go where you all fossil hunt for a day. Definitely would be a bucket list thing for me
What I would do to go find shark teeth with you. I’ve never found a leg and only got to hunt for teeth once when I was on vacation in Florida. Love your videos bro keep up the great vids!🔥
You are so lucky to live near a location like this! I'm here in Pennsylvania and all we have is dead deer along side the road, cheese steaks and soft pretzels....lol!!
My son and I have always dreamed of finding a MEG tooth in the wild. Can anyone recommend a place in the Charleston area where we can walk on and just do some poking around for a few hours? We are planning to drive up from Birmingham, Alabama.
The only place I can think you might have any luck with that year-round is somewhere on the riverbanks of the cooper and wando rivers near the charleston harbor so you would need a boat. they used to dump dredge there back in the day and people go there by boat and find teeth at low tide. several of the local tooth hunting charters go around there if you don't feel like dragging a boat all the way here
all the rivers in the Charleston lowcountry and south have megalodon teeth, but you'll have to scuba dive to get them. you can find them in some creeks also and sometimes on river banks. digging sites are few and far between though so you have to explore to find those.
megalodon teeth can be found in Maryland also, hopefully that is a little closer for you. I have a friend up there named Paul Murdoch who guides tours where you could potentially find them. Google Chesapeake Heritage and Paleontology tours for more info. anywhere meg teeth can be found usually has tours to hunt them too, so that is a good option especially with kids when you don't have unlimited time to research and look for spots. Thanks for watching and Happy Hunting!
I would love to have just one shark tooth, it wouldn't matter what type of shark although a Megalodon would be nice. I fell in love with sharks after I watched - JAWS.
You're in luck - shark teeth are found all over the world. They are very easy to find. Look on beaches, river banks, quarries, canals, etc. For example, in Venice Beach Florida and neighboring Casperson beach, people find shark teeth washing up on the beach all day, every day. most are small, but they are there for the finding. Bigger ones like megalodon teeth are tougher to find - not because they are super rare but because they are easy to see so they get picked up right away. I hope you can find one, but at a minimum I hope you can enjoy the hunt. thanks for watching!
most importantly, you have to explore to find places where the geologic formation is exposed. once you find a spot, since the formation is not uniform, you have to dig around to find where its better within each location for the best chance to find a megalodon tooth.
I don't bring a lot of attention to the bones because I find so many of them, however I almost always pick them up and occasionally put the interesting ones in my videos. I did a segment on bones from this spot in this video th-cam.com/video/2N9jKVxzDvM/w-d-xo.html at around 3:09 .
How do you know the difference in teeth? Like how do you know its a Meg and not a GW or something. Is it because of how fossilized it is? I genuinely dont know but i want to learn. I find shark teeth really cool and i want to find some one day
we know how old our geologic deposits are and what species are possible to find here. that really helps to narrow down what is possible to find. Beyond that, different species of sharks have different shaped teeth. Some are similar, but there are features that help in the ID. Its a broad topic because there are so many species so I can't really do it justice in a comment. I'll put together an ID video for one of my future posts, I've never done that before. thanks for the comment!
@blackriverfossils Good to hear. Sorry I disappeared, everything went sideways, and I walked away from society. Is there a way we can be in contact outside of youtube?
do you happen to be ditch weasel, if not you made me think of him. while my wife was stationed at ft gorden mr weasel told me where to go in summerville. i never got to thank him
its a product of time and erosion. for millions of years, sharks including megalodons lived here and lost billions of teeth. those fell to the ocean floor and became fossilized. over the millions of years since the giant sharks went extinct, the ocean levels went up and down through natural cycles. the resulting erosion mixed everything together into a more or less uniform level. during the ice age, lots of rivers flowed through this area and pushed gravel and fossils together into huge piles. exactly the way modern rivers pile debris together. This site was one of those giant gravel piles, and that's why there were so many megalodon teeth.
Where is a good place to find them. I have a 4 year old that I have been promising to look for sharks teeth. I live in Cottageville and am not far from Charleston.
if you have a boat, a lot of the islands in charleston harbor have teeth on the banks. there are spots just a few minutes from remleys point landing. people find them on folly beach too. closer to you there are creeks in summerville you can find them. you can go to sawmill branch next to where it crosses dorchester rd next to the pawn shop & kfc. go at low tide and look in the gravel pockets on the bottom. lots of creeks have them you just have to explore and look for gravel. good luck to yall!
Careful with your 4 yr old. It might not be the type of trip they would enjoy, let alone remember. While you are focused on finding that 1 you just know is right there, your child needs you more. Sorry but I've seen it happen more than once to people who had poor judgement and tragic results. The teeth will always be somewhere for you to find, when your child is older.
they are worth something and i know I can't take em with me so maybe someday i'll sell them but not anytime soon. its my hobby so i like walking in the fossil room and looking at them.
it depends on your definition of rare I suppose. on one hand, meg teeth are not rare. consider that megalodon as a species lived at least 10 million years and they existed globally. one individual would lose hundreds, if not thousands in a lifetime. imagine how many teeth every shark lost cumulatively during that time! on the other hand, nice megalodon teeth are rare. of all the teeth i mentioned before, many did not fossilize at all or were completely annihilated by natural erosion at some point since they were lost. Only a scarce few of all megalodon teeth ever shed survived to be recognizable as shark teeth today. these sharks ate whales and had tremendous bite force so many of the teeth broke during feeding. lots of incomplete teeth fossilized. fewer teeth were complete when they fell from the sharks' mouths. Some of those broke over time due to natural processes like drying out and becoming wet again. the salt in the water is the worst because when a tooth dries, salt crystals form and bust the tooth apart from the inside. so basically everything is against a tooth surviving tens of millions of years in complete condition. those are the ones people want and they ARE rare.
Thank you. Worth the wait and hope you find 100 more. And hopefully Diva can get a few also.
Diva CRUSHED it at that site. She found some awesome ones, check our her channel
You should make your own complete life size jaw mount with all the teeth you've found. That would be cool.
i might be able to but space is an issue. every corner in the house is stacked up with rocks, teeth, relics, artifacts, and gear. cool stuff to be sure, but it doesn't leave much room for a life size meg jaw! maybe if I win the lottery 🤔
@@blackriverfossils I was thinking. Maybe have the entire jaw 3D printed in sections. And mount the teeth according to size and position to that. Easy to reassemble wherever.
Done right, a collector could easily pay $100K for such a wall mount. Maybe more.
@@moemuggy4971 i've never seen one like that. it would be cool!
My Dad worked on or ran fishing boats most of his life and he had collected the jaws and teeth of sharks to make a display he mounted up with a huge set and then on the inside of those it gradually got smaller and smaller to a baby set
@@staceyroberts3468that’s sick as hell, it’s my dream to be able to just go out and find shark teeth and do something like this but I live in Canada in the middle of nowhere 🖐️😭
There it is! I was out this weekend for a little over a day and found a good seam of gravel in the Megalodon nursery. Just a beater juvenile find and some frags, but I’ll take it until I can make the trip again. Awesome to come back and see this video!
congrats on your find! thanks for watching and for your comment!
Iove those black meg teeth!
Congrats. Good luck for the next 100!!!
wow 100 more?! that would be spectacular. Goals! Thanks for watching!
So fun to watch the compilation of all that work. New drinking game… Diva’s responses to you finding a meg.😂
Cheers to the next 100 🍻
lol that's funny! drink to the sass!
Sass is so underrated 😊
Whow! incredible I would like to join you guys to find one of them!!😅
Awesome videos! Keep up the good work!!
thank you I'll do my best!
I want to go there, great finds.
There's a reptile store in Colorado that sells megedon teeth and bugs candy and fish and scorpions and taretulas and congrats on your finds and God bless you too
Are you talking about the Dinosaur Resource Center in Woodland Park? That place was great we went there last year.
So exciting, I love the recap. I would love to go hunting with you guys. Diva’s got you pegged, you are very lucky, or should I say “skilled”.
i'm very lucky but I move a lot of dirt too. that's a good combo in a hobby like this!
Diva’s sass is is at peak performance in this video! 😂 *chef’s kiss*
I don’t blame her! I’d be annoyed with your near perfect fossils too! Lol! Great vid, dude! Y’all seriously make the best team. I almost don’t wanna see a vid without both of you. I’m proud for ya! 🫡 Amazing.
Lmao! If you only knew. I find this AMAZING SITE and he finds ALL the big Megs!... at first anyway LOL. Good Video Kim!
@@AncientAdventures 🤣💀❤️ Love you guys!
its just a sass summary when you see it all back to back like that. i have my moments too when she scores big at sites I find. thanks for watching!
@@blackriverfossils Ok, but…imma need more of her sass. 😂 haha. Seriously, I was rolling.
@@MDWLRK7 trust me. she's not gonna lose her edge.
Some truly amazing finds. In your case hard work pays off,with some luck.
thank you!
do you think any of the teeth you have found at the site are associated? I know it’s basically impossible to tell but the amount of teeth in that one small area makes me think that at least some of them are
for the same reason you stated, my gut feeling is that yes, some are associated.
Congrats on finding such a productive area. Very cool video.
thanks! My girlfriend was the one who found this spot. she's a beast when it comes to exploring. not that i haven't found my share of spots too but i gotta give credit where credit is due.
What digging site is it and where, example: meg line hole in south myrtol beach , like whats the site and in where
That’s like asking someone their favorite fishing spot 😂 it’ll never happen lol
I live in Wilmington, N.C. Don't find many mega up here. Occasionally a few will pop up after storms at Topsail Beach. Gotta come down south and get in those creeks...
if you do come down here hunting, you gotta get out away from civilization. the creeks in town get a ton of collecting so there aren't a lot of big ones coming out of them.
Amazing!
You guys are killing it. Congrats. 🇺🇸🇺🇸👍👍
thank you!
I’ve done my fair share of digging, but what you all have done here is beyond impressive. I hope you have a great chiropractor lol!
lol not yet but i'm sure its not too far off in my future!
Love your videos. Long time subscriber. Been fossil hunting for about 20 years here in N. Central FL. My biggest have been in the 3 - 3 1/4 range. One day I'm gonna make it up there to S.C. and find some of those monsters. Keep up the great work.
Thanks for the complement! I appreciate you watching. The teeth might be smaller down where you hunt but I betcha they are in a lot better shape. We just went diving down in Venice a couple weeks ago and a dude on the boat found one just under 6 inches so you can find the big ones down there too. Best of luck to you!
@@blackriverfossils oh for sure. I'm in the Gainesville area and do a lot of creek walking. You're not allowed to use any kind of tools or sifter now though because of erosion issues but you can top spot them pretty well. My biggest was a top spot. And the color/condition is crazy. I have a little 2" posterior meg that is almost pristine serrations and shine and some Giant Mako that are still almost razors. Lol. I did find the top corner of a root that had to be a 4-5 inches though. I haven't had the pleasure of diving for any yet.
@@Newblar we hunted teeth in gainesville once. Didn't find much but we processed some micro matrix there that we haven't gone through yet. We heard there were nurse shark teeth in it, and that's why we went. Diving is awesome man. The conditions down in Venice are amazing right now. The visibility is so good we could see the boat from the bottom. every day we were there someone on the boat found good sized meg teeth.
Amazing! Why are there so many!! Loved and subbed❤❤❤
megalodon as a species frequented this region to feed on the whales here. the sharks lost teeth which fell to the ocean floor, got covered by sediment and fossilized. over time the ocean level fluctuated and eroded away all those deposits, redepositing them all in the same strata. that happened a bunch of times over millions of years. during the ice age the ocean level fell again and rivers flowed through this area, eroding out all those deposits and piled them together just like modern rivers do. finally, excavation for a borrow pit exposed the deposits created by one of those ice age river flows and that's why there is so much here. this video just concentrated on the plethora of megalodon teeth, but there were all kinds of ice age animals in those deposits too. there were elephants, horses, tapirs, giant sloths, and more which you can see in my Sloth Party playlist. it was truly a remarkable site. thanks for watching and for the sub!
I just want one 😭😭
keep hunting!
Unreal!!! Congrats!!
thank you!
Thats so awesome, love your videos
I appreciate you watching!
That's awesome! Congrats!
thank you!
Do you offer fossil tours i would totally book a day trip!!!
We're Toothless Fossil Hunting from 757 Va
i'm just an amateur fossil hunter so I don't offer tours. lots of people around do though so you shouldn't have any problems finding someone. good luck on your hunt!
I envy you so much, in UK the only places that have megalodon teeth to be found are on a very small stretch of coast, and they are so rare the most well known for them only averages finding 10 a year. I'm hoping with recent weather might find one soon.
Congratulations,
keep on digging...👍⛏
thanks!
What places do you look for when searching? Are you digging in this video on the beach or is it kind of a long like the intercoastal? I also wanted to ask do you just start digging in the sand somewhere or do you go in the water? I know some beaches you can’t dig anything in the water.
this was a dirt pit. i don't just dig randomly, i look for the presence of the fossil bearing formation. sometimes i have to probe to find it.
Whoa!!!!!!!!!!!!! So many in one trip 😱
this wasn't one trip, but it was all from the same site.
Just insane man, cant believe there can be that many from one spot. And i find it awesome that #100 is such a badass tooth.
Congrats! And heres to 764 more 😂
i will absolutely keep digging as long as possible! Hopefully I can get to number 764 😄 thanks for watching and for your comment!
Is there anywhere in Ontario you can find teeth?
there are places in Canada where you can find dinosaur fossils but I don't know of anywhere you can find shark teeth. Sharks have been around a long time though, so there must be some there somewhere.
Is this a public location? I’m from Maryland and I fossil hunt around Calvert cliffs. I’ve been going there since a child. I’ve found thousands of teeth but I just found my first megs on the same day a week ago. I’d love to go where you all fossil hunt for a day. Definitely would be a bucket list thing for me
it is no longer accessible. i am just very far behind on editing and publishing the videos for youtube.
What I would do to go find shark teeth with you. I’ve never found a leg and only got to hunt for teeth once when I was on vacation in Florida. Love your videos bro keep up the great vids!🔥
How does he find these sites dude?!?! Been watching this legend for years and I just feel so jealous THAT TVIS MAN FINDS THESE
YAY!!! 100 BABY! 🎉
celebration time!
You are so lucky to live near a location like this! I'm here in Pennsylvania and all we have is dead deer along side the road, cheese steaks and soft pretzels....lol!!
i am very lucky, no doubt. but your cheese steaks... 🤤
@@blackriverfossils Yeah they are very tasty!
My son and I have always dreamed of finding a MEG tooth in the wild. Can anyone recommend a place in the Charleston area where we can walk on and just do some poking around for a few hours? We are planning to drive up from Birmingham, Alabama.
The only place I can think you might have any luck with that year-round is somewhere on the riverbanks of the cooper and wando rivers near the charleston harbor so you would need a boat. they used to dump dredge there back in the day and people go there by boat and find teeth at low tide. several of the local tooth hunting charters go around there if you don't feel like dragging a boat all the way here
Just imagine what the bite force of a megalodon shark when they swam in the ocean and cool finds
megalodon must have had tremendous bite force to be able to feed on whales. truly a magnificent creature!
How do I find spots like this? What should I look for?
you gotta look for the gravel layer for any chance of finding meg teeth around here.
You ever sell what you find??
sometimes I sell the imperfect ones but I keep what I find for the most part.
Where are spots the public can find megalodon teeth in South Carolina? I desperately want to find one!
all the rivers in the Charleston lowcountry and south have megalodon teeth, but you'll have to scuba dive to get them. you can find them in some creeks also and sometimes on river banks. digging sites are few and far between though so you have to explore to find those.
I would love to take my little ones on a fossil hunting trip for megs but have no idea where to go since we live up north.
megalodon teeth can be found in Maryland also, hopefully that is a little closer for you. I have a friend up there named Paul Murdoch who guides tours where you could potentially find them. Google Chesapeake Heritage and Paleontology tours for more info. anywhere meg teeth can be found usually has tours to hunt them too, so that is a good option especially with kids when you don't have unlimited time to research and look for spots. Thanks for watching and Happy Hunting!
@@blackriverfossils That sounds awesome! Thank you so much! Happy hunting and keep up the great work!
@@joshuamuchnick2369 thanks! i hope yall do great hunting with Paul!
Where is this? Public land or private?
it was near charleston sc. private property.
Yh mate congrats on the 100th Meg wasn’t quite the 6 inch i was predicting but crazy tooth none the less great colours
sixers are tough to come by, especially on cue! thanks for watching!
I would love to have just one shark tooth, it wouldn't matter what type of shark although a Megalodon would be nice. I fell in love with sharks after I watched - JAWS.
You're in luck - shark teeth are found all over the world. They are very easy to find. Look on beaches, river banks, quarries, canals, etc. For example, in Venice Beach Florida and neighboring Casperson beach, people find shark teeth washing up on the beach all day, every day. most are small, but they are there for the finding. Bigger ones like megalodon teeth are tougher to find - not because they are super rare but because they are easy to see so they get picked up right away. I hope you can find one, but at a minimum I hope you can enjoy the hunt. thanks for watching!
How do you know we're to dig
most importantly, you have to explore to find places where the geologic formation is exposed. once you find a spot, since the formation is not uniform, you have to dig around to find where its better within each location for the best chance to find a megalodon tooth.
У этих зубов сохран лучше, чем у меня в 40 лет😂
Why did you dismiss all of the fossil bones in the baskets?
I don't bring a lot of attention to the bones because I find so many of them, however I almost always pick them up and occasionally put the interesting ones in my videos. I did a segment on bones from this spot in this video th-cam.com/video/2N9jKVxzDvM/w-d-xo.html at around 3:09 .
Where is this
it was near charleston, south carolina
@@blackriverfossils ok thank you
What ?!!!!
Where are you, what state ?
Where is sloth party? I have been wanting to find Meg teeth so bad!! These are huge!!!
its near Charleston South Carolina
I have always wanted to find a tooth like that Ive gotten pretty good at finding the small teeth at the beach lol
the first guy i went tooth diving with told me to get good at finding the little ones because the big ones are easy to see.
Do you have a tour for hunting? You know, the tourists are willing to pay for it. At least, I want to pay for it!😊😊
How do you know the difference in teeth? Like how do you know its a Meg and not a GW or something. Is it because of how fossilized it is? I genuinely dont know but i want to learn. I find shark teeth really cool and i want to find some one day
we know how old our geologic deposits are and what species are possible to find here. that really helps to narrow down what is possible to find. Beyond that, different species of sharks have different shaped teeth. Some are similar, but there are features that help in the ID. Its a broad topic because there are so many species so I can't really do it justice in a comment. I'll put together an ID video for one of my future posts, I've never done that before. thanks for the comment!
Wow. Pretty neat.
Caught diva cussin'😂
this CANT be the first time you've heard that lol
@@blackriverfossils I feel like most of the time you managed to edit around it
@@richconroy5559 i try but sometimes they get through. editing is not my strong suit. i'm better at the digging part!
@@blackriverfossils if it helps I think you did a great job with the 100 tooth video
@@richconroy5559 thanks I appreciate that!
I’m sorry, where is the spot please?
it was near charleston south carolina
Do you sell them ??
I'm an amateur collector so its just my hobby.
Hey Ditch, this is Gman. How's Dafozz?
hey man long time no e! how you been? df is doing great, just went diving with him a couple weeks ago.
@blackriverfossils Good to hear. Sorry I disappeared, everything went sideways, and I walked away from society. Is there a way we can be in contact outside of youtube?
@@TheLikkinBranchRanch it happens. i didn't post here for almost 2 years. you can email me ditchweezil at black river fossils dot org
100?
Dude I thought just 1 of those was worth like 3,000 bucks? If so u hit big!!
none of these are worth that much. they have to be in spectacular condition, have super color, or be gigantic to be that valuable.
@@blackriverfossils oh OK, thanks for the comment 👍
Looks like that no trespassing site 😂😂shocker
do you happen to be ditch weasel, if not you made me think of him. while my wife was stationed at ft gorden mr weasel told me where to go in summerville. i never got to thank him
I am he. Glad you were able to find some stuff!
Why are so many megalodon teeth in one area?
its a product of time and erosion. for millions of years, sharks including megalodons lived here and lost billions of teeth. those fell to the ocean floor and became fossilized. over the millions of years since the giant sharks went extinct, the ocean levels went up and down through natural cycles. the resulting erosion mixed everything together into a more or less uniform level. during the ice age, lots of rivers flowed through this area and pushed gravel and fossils together into huge piles. exactly the way modern rivers pile debris together. This site was one of those giant gravel piles, and that's why there were so many megalodon teeth.
Where is a good place to find them. I have a 4 year old that I have been promising to look for sharks teeth. I live in Cottageville and am not far from Charleston.
if you have a boat, a lot of the islands in charleston harbor have teeth on the banks. there are spots just a few minutes from remleys point landing. people find them on folly beach too. closer to you there are creeks in summerville you can find them. you can go to sawmill branch next to where it crosses dorchester rd next to the pawn shop & kfc. go at low tide and look in the gravel pockets on the bottom. lots of creeks have them you just have to explore and look for gravel. good luck to yall!
Careful with your 4 yr old. It might not be the type of trip they would enjoy, let alone remember. While you are focused on finding that 1 you just know is right there, your child needs you more. Sorry but I've seen it happen more than once to people who had poor judgement and tragic results. The teeth will always be somewhere for you to find, when your child is older.
You ever think about selling these teeth? They must be worth something!
they are worth something and i know I can't take em with me so maybe someday i'll sell them but not anytime soon. its my hobby so i like walking in the fossil room and looking at them.
Wow and wow,lol. I have found thousands and thousands of most species of shark and zero Meg teeth. 😢
all you can do is keep looking. there are plenty more meg teeth out there to find.
"Voltron." Geat reference to all Gen X'ers.
i'm full of gen x references!
@@blackriverfossils Gen X'er here as well!
Is this public or private property
this was a private site. it is now closed
I guess these aren't as rare as I was led to believe jeeez..
it depends on your definition of rare I suppose. on one hand, meg teeth are not rare. consider that megalodon as a species lived at least 10 million years and they existed globally. one individual would lose hundreds, if not thousands in a lifetime. imagine how many teeth every shark lost cumulatively during that time! on the other hand, nice megalodon teeth are rare. of all the teeth i mentioned before, many did not fossilize at all or were completely annihilated by natural erosion at some point since they were lost. Only a scarce few of all megalodon teeth ever shed survived to be recognizable as shark teeth today. these sharks ate whales and had tremendous bite force so many of the teeth broke during feeding. lots of incomplete teeth fossilized. fewer teeth were complete when they fell from the sharks' mouths. Some of those broke over time due to natural processes like drying out and becoming wet again. the salt in the water is the worst because when a tooth dries, salt crystals form and bust the tooth apart from the inside. so basically everything is against a tooth surviving tens of millions of years in complete condition. those are the ones people want and they ARE rare.
I enjoy a good beater tooth!
beaters can be nice too!
Megalodentist 😅