you can't see right now but there is a
big triangle right there
and i think it's whole and i am
extremely excited there it is that's a
triangle
no no no no no i want to grab it it's
mine it's mine no don't grab it it's
mine
it's mine no no no don't do it don't do
it we're out today in the chandler
bridge formation
looking for megalodon shark teeth and
other cool marine fossils
we've got the family with us this time
and we've already been finding
really cool stuff so we're surface
collecting right now
probably going to do some more digging
there's a lot of cool stuff in this
river and we hope to find some of it
today
and just like that we've got another
tooth
so this is an angustiden shark tooth
it's the ancestor the megalodon
to give you guys some context this tooth
is found in the chandler bridge
formation
which is this clay limestone muddy layer
we have up here
and this area in coastal south carolina
used to be part of the atlantic ocean
24 million years ago and it deposited
all these cool shark teeth
with all this gravel so actually there's
a piece of a tooth right there again
so there's lots of fossils here and
we're out scouting it
trying to find megalodon teeth and other
really cool shark teeth
i used to swim in these areas and look
crabs it's a fiddler crab
and justin walked right over it look at
it laying out like that
you gotta be kidding me oh
and it's orange that's a pretty tooth
nice angie that's a really nice angustiden
and it's got the
cusplets which indicate that it's the
grandfather to megalodon
by the time megalodon evolved, it had evolved
away that cusplet that's so cool
it's a really nice tooth Kat oh yeah
so i have a question geologist yes ma'am
is it eroding from in here or was that
wash up from when this was high tide and
low tide
it's hard to say because it was right on
the surface but considering how good
of shape that tooth is in it probably
eroded directly out of the formation
right here
and then got deposited and it hasn't
gotten in the main channel yet
so this is the formation right in here
yeah that's all the formation
there's another tooth over there yeah
let me see
so brother has found the second angustiden
of today
and oh it's a little bit busted that's
still a nice tooth looks pretty good
can I see the back side cool another
grand poppy to the megalodon shark i
think i think this is a hemi here, so hard to see them,
there's a lot of muck on everything yep
yep what if we splash some water on it
there's more they're hiding here
another hemi cool lots of shark teeth
they look really nice cleaned up
got the calico tiger's eye colors shark
vert
and that would have been a nice angustiden
so this is the ancient seafloor
these rocks are part of the formation
and they're eroding
out of this clay so if we look over here
i saw it here we go here's
a shark tooth that eroded out of the
clay rock
and it's part of the chandler bridge
formation so you want to look for these
rocks and then
in these rocks you'll have those shark
teeth
What
What did you find?
I need someone to find it.
i'm not the best, need someone to find it,  Danielle found it!
So what Danielle just found is a
megalodon tooth from the Miocene so this
would have been deposited above the
chandler bridge formation
and then it eroded down and that's why
it's so beat up
that is the first megalodon tooth from
today good job
Technically Justin found it Shhhh
there's a bridge here, Jonathan
there was a bridge here
looks like where these posts here (are) it was a
one time a boardwalk or a small
bridge going through here that's long
been
eroded away what did you find over here
just take a shovelful to check what
we're walking on and
right there there's a little meg looks
like it's broken
but still not that bad of a guy
yeah it's a little dirty got the corners
knocked off but it's a nice little meg
so we're walking through about three
feet of muck right now
and apparently up there it gets the
solid limestone again
oh yeah there we go now we're on
limestone
the mud sucks all of that back there was
just straight
mud this is what we do for our fossils
and for
what we love
where's the clams at dinner if you were
hungry enough
out here
look i have a handful of fossil clams
see i'm just pulling up clam clam clam
clam
that looks like a gastropod so this is
actually a really cool teaching moment
so
here are those clams justin found a
second ago this is the naturally
occurring
organic shell and these are the cast
of that organic shell so that living
clam
would have one day had died and then
sand and clay and muck
would have filled the shell and then
solidified leaving this trace fossil of
the organism
there are no more parts of the original
organic shell
in that fossil so it's really cool this
area also would have been where these
shells were deposited very close to
shore so in between a glacial and
interglacial period
and only you know 100 to 200 yards away
from the ocean
that's awesome i know they're literally
everywhere
one two three four five six seven eight
that's a seed hundreds are there yeah
clam
the gravel is practically clams yeah
that's pretty cool and then we got some
gastropods and then all these turtle
shells
this one's a double clam here's a vertebrae - top and bottom - sticking out of the formation
Oh, I got a vertebrae too
here they got a nice little shark vert with a
few barnacles grabbed on it but it looks
like it's in there
pretty good yeah just leave it there
it's always cool to see the fossils
actually in their
natural context that's in the formation
that it was deposited in
so that vertebrae hasn't moved in 24
million years
and Justin found that awesome shark vert
that was in the wall and he found
another one
just sifting with his hands in the
gravel along with this cool fossilized
turtle shell piece
good job brother okay i'm gonna put them
back in the water okay
Kats over there struggling
this is what we do for our fossils
what's this like Kat, like a day at the mud spa
i'll have you know that i am six foot
three and that is almost up to my knee
peeking through all this foilage and i
just found a modern piece of bone
there is a raccoon jaw so that's super
cool it might be possum actually
but it looks more like raccoon so lots
of animals and critters out here besides
just the fossils
we are in the amazon a lot of piranhas
piranhas right here
you gotta be careful
oh god the fish oh my gosh
you guys have no idea what it smells
like out here, stinks worse because you're out here
Justin was just testing
with his hands and he found something
really interesting
that is the corner to what would have
been a huge angustiden
and in great shape too this would have
been a three or four inch
angustiden shark tooth so there might be
something really nice for us to find
today
we've got another awesome gravel bar oh
there's a fish hunting over there
we have seen a lot of fish in here and
they have been hitting our feet
and scaring danielle but there's cool
stuff out here
this is probably where we're gonna start
digging there's gravel
there's lots of good-looking stuff
we got two broken big teeth right next
to each other
ace one here and then a nice one
right here this spot is nice i can't
wait to actually get the shovel in the
ground
there is definitely something big in
here
lots of teeth another tooth right there
you see a tooth
let me see it
oh that would have been a nice Angy
you can't see right now but there is a
big triangle right there
and i think it's whole and i am
extremely excited there it is that's a
triangle
no no no no no no i want to grab it it's
mine it's mine no don't grab it it's
mine
it's mine no no no don't do it don't do
it Kat ahhhh
that is a nice tooth why'd it gotta eat
though look at the tip broken off
that thing is huge all right we're gonna
clean that up that is a
big angustiden shark tooth that's the
biggest one i've ever found that is
awesome
yes give me some give me some of that
fat boy, i want to get a knuckle
oh that's alright i was looking right at
the gravel
tooth right next to it oh yeah i see
another one
whoop hey  reworked megalodon tooth from
the Miocene
nice i can't believe the amount of teeth
out here this is insane
do you guys see that little lizard
sticking out in the bottom
right there it's a green anole one of my
favorite native lizards to this area
that's so cool the wildlife in places
like this is so cool
there are crabs fish animals anything
you can really imagine
it's the benefit of coming out to wild
spots like this
you get to be out in nature you get to
learn you're get to do something you
love
and you get to find really cool fossils
ancient history
megalodon shark teeth all this stuff's
right beneath our feet you just gotta
get out and find it
so it's hard to believe but this right
here looks like and is
the ear bone to a giant whale that thing
is
nuts it's really worn down and beat up
but this would have been a 40 50 foot
whale
and that's just the bone in the inner
ear to help it
hear sound underwater that's awesome and
apparently right next to it
was a big ol very nice shark tooth
it's insane how much stuff's out in good
locations and good exposures like this
we found a good spot today no matter
where you go
and how far away you get from people you
still find trash
and this happens to be a shotgun shell
to us it's really a reminder that
you gotta clean up after yourself you
gotta keep natural areas like this
clean and pristine and so everyone can
enjoy them
although we are really in the middle of
nowhere out here
they just keep coming more and more
teeth
oh that's a sick blade look at those
serrations
that is meaty but no root
ah that would have been cool that would
have been so cool this is what we call
a heartbreaker just the corner to what
would have been
a massive megalodon tooth at least a
five incher
maybe even a six inch that's almost two
inches long right there just for the
root
that would have been a big megalodon
tooth ah
once again we have found our intrepid
fossil hunters
how's the gravel is it just like a thin
layer
well it isn't bad wow
let's do a few test digs here there's
a fish right there
there's gravel though there's definitely
gravel
oh got too heavy to loaded with the
good stuff
fishy
i caught that oh there goes the shovel
that's a nice one there we go we've got
another
angustiden with really well-defined
cusps
you can see these like mini tooths
basically right there
and right there and that was a fish
catching adaptation
and as the shark evolved into megalodon
this fish catching adaptation
wasn't necessary even in the smallest of
newborn megalodon teeth
so it evolved away now regular megalodon
teeth have
a straight blade and that's much wider
and the babies can hunt seals
right away and stuff like that there's
no need for them to catch fish
at all
Danielle found something.
while i'm talking danielle found what
would have been a super nice posterior
megalodon tooth so this would have been
in the rear part of the jaw it would
have been really small at that point
so megalodons had 276 teeth and not all of
them were shaped the same
it's always crazy to me to think that we
found this many teeth
in this shallow creek but this formation
continues
for miles east south north west
so there's millions and millions maybe
billions
of shark teeth buried out here you only
really have that happen with deep time
so a shark sheds about 30 000 teeth in
its lifetime
but a lot of those very very few
fossilized maybe one in a million but
enough animals live
and died for us to be able to find their
fossilized remains out here
and to me that's just such a cool fact
the ability to connect to history
physically
is the thing i treasure most about doing
these videos
and going out fossil hunting so many
clams you could eat out here for days
like seriously so much protein just
hanging out in here
Danielle's been finding some nice stuff
today and she just got the first
fossilized alligator scoot
so you can find lots of cool extant
which means modern
fossils out here as well i was just
gonna show that to them
it's a nice mako shark tooth so i say
mako but it's not actually a mako
this is um the oligocene version of a
giant white shark but
this eventually evolved into the modern
day great white shark
so a lot of really cool stuff out here
for sure
danielle just found a really cool Isurus
desiri tooth
it's an awesome shark tooth good job
you know you're on a hot streak you
don't move yeah you shouldn't move you
keep finding the good stuff
why are you hiding all these teeth from
me that's a nice sand tiger shark tooth
good stuff danielle killing the game
justin i think you're
doing something wrong that's a crab
it's moving yeah it's alive, that is not fossil hunting
okay put him back and let him go back to
his crab business
so this spot turned out really nice but
we're gonna see if we can't find
more spots to dig and find some awesome
pieces of history and some more
megalodon shark teeth and angustiden shark teeth
it's really cool you guys that watch
these youtube videos don't realize that
we have to trudge through often miles of
just
disgusting gunk hold on it's gonna get
stuck
oh my gosh hold on okay hold on
Justin! Justin help her
i tell you the amazon is a dangerous
place
we're not going to lose you again
Czarisse are we no the jesus sandals are
nice but
daniel isn't even complaining she's way
up there like you guys are just
complaining way too much
awesome sauce all you young up and
coming fossil hunters out there watch
out for danielle
she's gonna find all those megalodon
teeth before you can, that felt
so weird what happened a fish swam
between my legs
and its tail went like this and hit both
of my legs oh my goodness
no wonder this spot so good there's no
way anyone else is coming out here
well bye Czarisse, Danielle i'm two feet
taller than you you can't go the same
way i go what are you doing
you did make it through i'll give you
that all right last spot of the day
is gonna be right up here you gotta love
it when they're just sitting there
for the taking what
it's a tree oh my gosh Czarisse
screams and then says its a tree oh my
gosh
it's not a mastodon tooth
okay i'm done you can get more gravel
than that brother
what you got justin looks like a little
oh it's a super polished one
that's another big angustiden shark
tooth but it's been well polished
this looks like it's also something like
enamel or no
sorry brother no it's Mastodon
look at oh that is
i couldn't tell through the camera lens
justin just found a chunk of mastodon
enamel
yeah i guess it runs in the family yeah
look at the thick
enamel right there i didn't realize that
one there too oh yeah another tooth
yeah nice brother i'm answering the call
of cat
that is a pretty mako yeah it's a nice
one
top shelf love top shelf we in a good
spot
oh polished Meg
awe a piece of a big meg now if you guys
noticed throughout this video most of
the broken megalodon teeth we found have
been really polished and smooth and beat
up
and that's because these were deposited
after the chandler bridge formation
in the Miocene and that whole
formation got eroded
and so it got redeposited on top of the
chandler bridge
but through the process of erosion it
got super worn down
so it's really rare to find a high
quality meg out here because they've
been
eroded polished thrown about beaten up
but they still make for a cool fossil
so these big extinct shark teeth look
like hearts and i'm out to show you
the definition of a heartbreaker there
it is cut clean in half
an angustiden shark tooth that is a
heartbreaker
why i could have loved you but no more
so speaking of heartbreakers justin just
pulled out
what would have been another museum
quality angustiden shark tooth
but it is broken why did break that's
got such nice colors and preservation
that would have been a trip maker so sad
so sad
reach down and grabbed a handful and it had
two little pieces in there there's a
broken angustiden and then there's a
broken meg
another broken meg wait did you find one
too over there
hey danielle nice she stole your spot
that's a fossil hunting sin danielle so
danielle just found
the first extinct horse tooth of the day
cool there's ice age fossils out here
too good job
i found a tiny little meg it's an
awesome posterior meg and danielle what
do you got
she's got the corner to another what
would have been a huge megalodon tooth
why are you moving so much you get your
adrenaline pumping when you're finding
this many shark teeth
i gotta beat danielle somehow may have
overloaded my sifter
see if there's something right off the
bat
broken mako
broken meg
another broken mako
small mako shark
there's another broken meg
oh i was not done with this spot that is
a
big hemi i'm gonna grab it
nice great shape too snaggletooth shark
in the book we've got another reworked
megalodon tooth
very nice triangle
cool this is the same sift i just shook
it a little bit more and
boom better tooth than before that's
another nice megalodon tooth
that's two in the same sift
it's madness
this is really unique there is a very
thin pliocene
layer that was deposited on top of the
chandler bridge
and it actually contains great white
shark teeth so that's my first great
white shark tooth from today it's a
little lower
from a juvenile it's really cool only
missing
one cusp
there's justin's stuff he found
one really nice angustiden an
absolute
heartbreaker of an angie
some big megalodon chunks
like well that's an angie but that's a meg
and then a nice posterior megalodon
tooth
so and then just a lot of shark teeth
look at that great white
oh you think you found a great white
from the pliocene there problem with it
is this creek is so acidic that the
roots normally get eaten away
but that would have been a pretty great
white good stuff brother
so danielle what have you learned what
teeth you got over here
i don't know so she has a megalodon an
angustiden
megalodon megalodon megalodon and a nice sand
tiger
and lots of good teeth kid killing it
final sift gotta make it count is a
really big mako blade and if it is whole
it is my best mako from here so
here we and of course not of course it's not
whole some say the final sift is always
lucky
i say you just fossil hunt until you
have a lucky
last sift that is what your bag should
look like
after a good fossil hunt
so i just found an artifact that will
survive the test of time
if i'm not mistaken that is a nokia cell
phone
and yes yes it is this will never die i
bet
i could call my parents on this right
now
so we aren't joking here that
is a second nokia phone actually has the
back you've got to be kidding me
it might be motorola but anyway these
old phones survive the test of time
danielle it's ridiculous
that is a beautiful water snake bye
little guy so cool to see animals out
here
these wild places still got them
a banded water snake
such a cutie i got my flashlight out to
look for fossils because there's no
glare right now and it's dark
that's a gator and i would have stepped
right on it
we all would have stepped right on that
so we're gonna give that
alligator its birth and that would not
have been a fun way to end today with a
gator bite
no thank you probably just a four footer
but that would still have not been a fun
way to spend today
and there goes the flashlight so
we're out there it is the alligator
that's why we let Jonathan go first
that's just nuts
very amazing though
okay guys let's go home
