We are going out looking for fossils
like shark's teeth and manatee bones.
Florida used to be under water, so
basically this whole place used to be ocean.
You know they think that 'oh, we may find one or two teeth', but when they sit
down with a sieve and they actually go
into the gravel and put it in there, and
they start shifting, it's like 'oh, well
this is just a little piece of stone,
this is a little rock or whatever' and
you say 'no, that's actually a
lemon shark' or 'that's actually a bull shark'.
-Sand tiger. Baby.
I absolutely think these kids
are so excited about what they find. One
thing that's nice is that it brings
them outside, it gets them excited about
nature, excited about science and they
actually learn that this is science.
Oh, I see something! Most of them are
whole but sometimes they are chipped a
little. Some are smalls are a big. Smalls
are about this big, so not very big.
So you have to look really, really carefully.
I like to look at very small pieces which
have, like, a little evidence that there
might be some teeth there. Many small
rocks and colored sand around it, and
crushed and churned fossils and rocks.
I found this Megalodon tooth and, um,
right here in this creek.
It's probably biggest shark's tooth I've
found so far. I pulled it out, it sorta looked
like a rock at first, but after I looked
at it for a while I figured out it was a shark's tooth.
Sometimes it's hard to drag them out of here. If the sun's going down and it's getting
dark, it's like "Just a couple more
minutes! Just a couple more minutes!"
or "I just want to check what's around the
bend!"
