I've been watching for maybe 5 years now and I have never been this early to a video! May I ask where you guys hunt?
@jamesriverfossils2 күн бұрын
I have never found a cow shark tooth.
@blackriverfossils2 күн бұрын
you should be able to find them up your way.
@FossilFinder12Күн бұрын
Yeah, they’re very rare especially in Florida as Cow Sharks are normally found in very deep water and back when Florida was underwater, there weren’t many deep spots so finding a cow shark tooth is a very rare find!
@Hydrart2 күн бұрын
I was just thinking how cool it would be to put pin backs on them like a lapel button or a tie tack maybe cufflinks!
@blackriverfossils2 күн бұрын
they really do make cool jewelry. besides for necklaces, i have made tie tacks with them before. hemis are great for that. I used epoxy to attach the pins that I bought from a craft store.
@Hydrart2 күн бұрын
@ then you sir totally rock…and fossil!
@joesephmccants66543 күн бұрын
Certainly you can find a better tool than a short screwdriver for digging those out .
@blackriverfossils2 күн бұрын
I have a plastic putty knife i use also, but sometimes the formation is so hard and sticky that it takes something metallic to dig into it.
@ReturnoftheCollector7 күн бұрын
Looks like amethyst to me too. Nice find
@blackriverfossils2 күн бұрын
thanks. its a first for me in the lowcountry
@Predzz8 күн бұрын
I really like this video, mind sharing your entire collection of your favorite pieces, both found and bought?
@blackriverfossils2 күн бұрын
I'm going to put up my favorite pieces as youtube shorts eventually. thanks for watching and for your comment!
@MenOfNonsense8 күн бұрын
You’re back!
@geraldofabianoartes30748 күн бұрын
Incrível parabéns. Grande abraço Brasil
@Teep.698 күн бұрын
I remember watching this when I was a kid now I come back and fell happy to see this guy finding meg teeth one more time
@blackriverfossils2 күн бұрын
thanks for watching!
@Teep.692 күн бұрын
@@blackriverfossils Bro this video is a flash from the past I forgot the name of it until one day I just looked up meg teeth and there it was the legendary video I watched as a kid I even remember the thumbnail I always wished I could find meg teeth like you did.
@ChesapeakeBayBrian3999 күн бұрын
Awesome! Thanks for the vid, we understand how much work goes into these !
@blackriverfossils9 күн бұрын
thanks for watching!
@JoseyWilds9 күн бұрын
😂
@negotiator969 күн бұрын
You can get carbonating done on that piece of wood but carbon dating can only extrapolate dates supposedly out to about 30,000 years they try to go further with things but just by doing the science and the research you can know the limitations that real scientists will admit to not to mention the fact that the idea of carbon dating and the accuracies of it are probably not accurate whatsoever when they know the date of something you can't open it because the dates will not reflect it but if you don't know the date then they take the grouping of the most common date of the groupings and dates they get from a sample of material which will be varying from 100,030,015,012,500 years and they'll have maybe 8 or 10 that are generally around $18,000 or something and then they'll group and say well that must be it because most of them are a majority of them anyway or closer to that date but if you do the date of the object let's say it's found in a sealed environment and it's known to be 2000 years oldfrom the time of Jesus and you know for a fact that it's a part of a chest owned by the disciples or something and you were to have that tested if you told them that you knew the date of the object and how old it was etcetera then they wouldn't test it and they wouldn't give you a date because they wouldn't want to play fools but if you didn't know the date then they were testing no problem and they would tell you all the information you want to know about it that's because they're not really accurately getting a date it's very very weird the way it works with the whole Half-Life dating systems are nonsensical you can't know the rate of decay has stayed the same you can't know the original amount of carbon-14 and you can't know that the environment has been the same throughout all history from then to now and what affects the environment and other factors would have on the carbon-14 and you don't know what the baseline amount or level was for a living animal as it died at that point in time! Do you know if I can give you is a burning candle in a room you walk into a room and you see a long non-tapered burning candle that's in a scandal stand and it's just burning away and it's been burning for a little while you can't tell where the end was cuz it's not tapered so it's just the same size all the way down same thickness same circumference et cetera and someone says how long has this been burning?!? You can never truly answer that question correctly because you don't know the factors that you need to know to get an accurate date!... you could do some measurements you can measure the size left of the candle as you found it you can measure the rate of burn and that's about it but you need to know couple things you need to know the fact that the original candle started off at a certain size certain length you don't know what it was it could have been 10 ft tall it could have been 10 inches tall it could have been you know just 3 inches longer than it is now burning or it could have been 30 ft long and just a crazy long candle you just don't know if it was or not and you don't know if the flame or the rate of burn was the same throughout the burning process and how long has been going on without those those key measurements or knowledge of those factors you can never accurately guess or measure and determine with any certainty how old or how long something has been burning or how old something is same thing as from 14! and 2 answer the question video yeah they are weird about institutions you got to work for them you got to be one of their students and blah blah blah but they charge like you know 10 grand or something to do with a damn test now it's just a total rip-off they just don't want people getting familiar with that system because it's a BS system and then they use other systems potassium and argon plutonium and all kinds of chemicals in the elements they use the date things that just aren't accurate! You have a half-life of an atom that you find in a material and you know that it decays half of it decays in certain amount of time and then the other half of the it will start to decay and then half of that second half with a k in a certain amount of time that supposedly amount of time is the same as the first half of it decade and they say well the rate of decayis constant throughout history and they can assume that it is stable but just by their definition just by their signs it's not stable or constant because if I have a 100 ping pong balls and in one year half of them disappear and then one year later half of the half disappear which is 25 and then another one year later half of the 25th and half of the you know 12.5 disappear and then you have 6.25 and then 3.125 and then 1 something something and keeps going in half over and over forever but never quite reaching 0! That is how they say Half-Life decay works but if it was a constant rate of decay then you would have one year half of it would disappear and then a year later of the other half of 50 ping pong balls would disappear and that would be the end of it but instead of the rate of decay or disappearance of the ping pong balls in my analogy is clearly slowing down it takes a year for 50 to disappear and then a year from then we should be second year or two years later you have 25 disappearing and then from the two year mark onlyclearly it's a rate of decay is slowing down the proportion or the half-life or they say you know well it's the same rate it's half but that's not a half is not a real numbers and abstract thought is an abstract measurement it's not a real thing you can't say like a what's you know what's 12 / 2 and you just say well it's half half of 12 that's the answer 12 divided by 2 is half of 12 you say know the answer is 6 and they say well six is half of 12 so I was right and no you're not right and you're not right about this either!😂😂😂😂 So they can't take things that they say and they can't date rocks. Or fossilized organic material because it is rock and no longer organic material and if they have carbon 14 and then has to be less than 30,000 years so anything that has a little bit of carbon left in it that you can attach is well under a million years and it's close to 30000 or less according to their science that's their book saying this!
@negotiator969 күн бұрын
Hey can you help me out and answer your question that would be great!? ... I found as a child in a creek called Bull Creek in Middleburg Florida it's near Jacksonville but outside the city limits its own town everything but anyway it's connected to Black Creek but it's way off it's a small little creek some point you could jump across it but at a wider more shallow kind of points low water level because of the rain or lack thereof I was digging in the hard-packed clay and rock sediment kind of like hard pack dirt sort of and I had a little bit of water running over it and with my knife as a child I dug up a shark's tooth it's very brittle the tip of it actually snapped off and I glued it back on my sister accidentally broke it because it was so brittle! But it is completely Brown and it is in the shape of kind of like these megalodon teeth it's not quite as big as the larger ones it's maybe 2 in in height and it's very triangular and it looks like a classic trucks to kind of like a tiger sharks tooth or a great white shark's toothvery straight almost Arrowhead like it has no real curved one side of the other I'm not sure if that's just the placement in the mouth or whatever of the shark but I was wondering if someone can help me identify it without seeing it necessarily if you just tell me in general what it means that it's so brittle and that it's brown and almost petrified kind of material it was brown from the very beginning kind of a brownish red color but it's obviously it wasn't that way always something that happened to petrification or some sort of sedimentation in realization kind of sitting there and passing through the molecules of it and changing it inside and out I guess but apparently it's you know thousands and thousands of years old some would say millions but whatever that's not what I'm getting at I'm just trying to figure out what species you may think it could be or just in general what kind of situation the tooth would bethat is found in a small Creek tributary that comes off of the main North American Florida Creek like Black Creek which is the deepest Creek in North America but this is no Black Creek it's called Bull Creek it is connected eventually you will see that they connect somewhere along the lines but it's quite a few miles even as the crow flies but even more as you flow through the river and walk down the little bank and it almost vanishes at some points but it's just a little brook! And some places it's like a trickle and then it gets wide again and deep not real deep but fairly deep and then it'll kind of wine and make its way through these huge like sandhill type underwater features from Florida was once underwater I guess but there's been rolling hills out towards camp blanding in 215 but it's towards can't blending in Kingsley lake and off of 215 between blanding boulevard and 15 in Middleburg Florida in Clay county which is west and south I think of Jacksonville Florida!you can hit Orange Park Florida which is a town right next to Jacksonville and then a little further down Orange Park turns into Clay county and it turns into Middleburg and then key West and Stark and Lodi and Waldo and then Gainesville where the University of Florida is that direction! If you've ever gone to Gainesville 3301 the state road or not to key West or the Gold Head State Park and you've pretty much crossed over one of the bridges and you've been within a few feet of this Creek that I'm talking about! 👍🏽✌🏽✌🏽✌🏽🇺🇸😁 Thanks very much! That's as much information as I can remember about it and I still have it though and it's in one piece again but a little bit of the tip is missing from crumbling away over the years and I didn't even realize his child that I probably could have done more things up and that freak but you know it wasn't any resources for me back then although I wanted to be an archaeologist and a paleontologist and all kinds of different things like that were interesting to me but never never work out for me that way I guess lol ...
@negotiator969 күн бұрын
To add to this from watching this video here when he shows that mako tooth that is what it looks like very much except it's much stronger doesn't have the curb to it and it doesn't have any enamel or anything really it's just the general shape which is perfect but it's very smooth over and it's basically completely petrified and minerals eyes just looks like a piece of clay or stand or stone or something in the shape of the tooth has the details in the curbs and everything and certain lines but none of the actual animal is left none of the actual route of the two or three things it is just all turned to soft metal petrified organic material or inorganic material I'm not sure what you would call it now but it's it's rock now pretty much almost hardened mud in the shape of a tooth LOL! It isn't like you know super brittle in the sense that you can't touch it or anything it says some of the look of the enamel but it is certainly the color of muddy clay all the way through it brownish orange is brown and it's just really brittle at the tip in the small parts but you can see when I look at it now some of the little ridges of the side of the toothand you can see the center of the tooth the little groove that's you know on the center of the tooth out towards the top and then you can see that it's probably smooth down The cutting edge on both sides without the little serrations I don't think so there are a little bit of details but it seems a lot like that may go to that's the closest I've seen in the video to it so far
@negotiator969 күн бұрын
And further down the video now that I've seen a little more of it that great white tooth that he seems to be excited about that looks just like the tooth I have but obviously not the enamel and it's in much more mineralized and petrified condition but the general shape is almost identical the sizes about the same and there's no serrations visible but they're barely maybe barely visible on the edges I think it's been worn down through handling a little bit over the past 25 years or so but I think I remember it having a little bit of serrations on the edges of the tooth and that was you know quarter century ago? Lol
@blackriverfossils2 күн бұрын
many shark teeth look similar so it is not possible to accurately identify it from a written description. based on your description of where you found it, it certainly could be a fossil shark tooth. They often change color as they dry out in the days after you find them, but color comes from the minerals present during fossilization.
@allenmarshall35839 күн бұрын
this video takes me back when my wife and i were at fort gordon when you told us of summerville, it was a great time once again thank you from oklahoma
@blackriverfossils9 күн бұрын
thanks for watching!
@keithmiklosi70469 күн бұрын
Nice, found a piece of amethyst in Cross a few months ago
@blackriverfossils9 күн бұрын
cool! crazy to think how long those had to tumble towards the coast!
@Fuminex9 күн бұрын
Amethyst ain't rare
@blackriverfossils9 күн бұрын
they are where I collect.
@fvanesch10379 күн бұрын
Mabey that amethyst is washed up by the rivers from back inland.
@blackriverfossils9 күн бұрын
that's probably accurate
@nr01vid9 күн бұрын
nice ! hello from France
@blackriverfossils9 күн бұрын
bonjour!
@Rockin_in_Kentucky9 күн бұрын
Wow cool finds!
@blackriverfossils9 күн бұрын
thanks!
@alexandremichaud721711 күн бұрын
Bravo la grande dent est vraiment spectaculaire, continue comme ça !
@blackriverfossils9 күн бұрын
merci, je les cherche toujour!
@jgnfrn28018 күн бұрын
Супер!!!👍👍👍
@cotswolddroner771425 күн бұрын
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...
@blackriverfossils9 күн бұрын
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.
@G-Low162528 күн бұрын
How does he find these sites dude?!?! Been watching this legend for years and I just feel so jealous THAT TVIS MAN FINDS THESE
@Oden-y1d29 күн бұрын
The person with the black cap and white T-shirt looks like Woody Harrelson
@theantichrist4267Ай бұрын
Where is that place ??? That would make for an interesting vacation destination , just spend a week looking for Mega Shark teeth .
@blackriverfossils9 күн бұрын
its near charleston south carolina
@Thejurassicguy82Ай бұрын
Is there anywhere in Ontario you can find teeth?
@blackriverfossils9 күн бұрын
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.
@bearwill4737Ай бұрын
Talk with college's about finding a dept. that will do carbon dating on your wood sample.
@blackriverfossils9 күн бұрын
good idea
@Hassin-ofcАй бұрын
How many megalodons were there 😅
@blackriverfossils9 күн бұрын
they lived here for millions of years and they lost teeth the whole time so probably a bunch!
@GalaxyYT24Ай бұрын
I found 2 meglodon teeth that you missed
@blackriverfossils9 күн бұрын
Every big storm that blows through there uncovers more teeth. They'll still be finding them a hundred years from now.
@SarahNorman3Ай бұрын
Which formation do you look in? Fellow Charleston local
@blackriverfossils9 күн бұрын
There is more than one formation with teeth in the area. different resources call them different names, but the characteristics are the same. Look for natural, water smoothed gravel. The teeth and other fossils like bones will be mixed in with that. If you don't find rocks, you most likely won't find fossils either.
@williamlloyd3769Ай бұрын
Too much fun! Imagine stumbling across just one tooth, but 100s!!!
@creaturedomes9364Ай бұрын
Cool collection
@megladon2103Ай бұрын
Where are spots the public can find megalodon teeth in South Carolina? I desperately want to find one!
@blackriverfossils9 күн бұрын
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.
@liamdenise246Ай бұрын
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.
@rickwilcox7714Ай бұрын
What is a Hubble Meg
@erterrillАй бұрын
Man, I so wish I didn't have these damned lung diseases. I just moved to Florida a few months ago from Indiana. Saw one of your videos the other day and have been binge watching the last 2 days 🤣🤣 Never knew this area was a supreme hot spot for Meg teeth. I totally WISH I could get out there and find some Megs.... with these lung problems and breathing, that ain't happening, UGHH..... 😭😭🤣🤣
@MenOfNonsenseАй бұрын
Do you still check your email inbox for the email you have posted to youtube? If so, I would greatly appreciate if you were to check it and shoot me a response!
@boogboog8097Ай бұрын
Surprising the indians never discovered these as a source of arrow heads
@napalmholocaust9093Ай бұрын
I know this was 8 years ago. Still worth a mention. I could easily sculpt the broken megalodon teeth then electroform it over in copper then silver or just silver. I have already for a mako. It looks right. I knew a guy with broken ones for sale in a frame. I didn't buy them, but if the enamel is there, I could do the rest, need to remember his name...
@Suzansessions2 ай бұрын
I’d call those pre-forms. I found a small batch of slate ones in piedmont area of SC.
@blackriverfossils2 ай бұрын
I think most people agree with you. some of the pieces look more worked than others but none are finished products for sure. regardless I never found anything even close to this before. thanks for watching and for your comment.
@thepeopledownriver99482 ай бұрын
Awesome finds brother
@blackriverfossils2 ай бұрын
thanks man!
@drpk65142 ай бұрын
Carbon dating cannot be done on pieces over 40,000 years ago. But we might be able to tell you what kind of tree that wood is (to genus level) and that I might be able to do. If you sell wholesale Megs, I'm interested.
@snow30172 ай бұрын
crazy great point. someone spent some real time making that beauty!
@snow30172 ай бұрын
Always a great day when you come home with an elephant tooth, unless of course you're that elephant. Crazy how good of a site this has been. Some great cosmic events led those things to congregate there for you, and then for you to get access to it!
@blackriverfossils2 ай бұрын
it was superb. i miss this spot so much. better to have loved and lost, right?
@snow30172 ай бұрын
Cool stuff. So cool that i actually sat through an unblockable kamala add to watch this. the pain we endure for our friends! I think the rarest tooth i have is a regurgitated meg. Absolutely perfect condition, just not a sliver of enamel on it.
@blackriverfossils2 ай бұрын
omg sorry dude. some barf to go with your regurgitated meg...
@snow30172 ай бұрын
@@blackriverfossils 😂 I"ll be honest the first 3-4 times i heard "she is a great leader" it was a great laugh. But after that is like nails on a chalkboard. strange how utube makes it unskippable for me
@blackriverfossils2 ай бұрын
@@snow3017 if you say it enough times, it becomes true!
@Matthew-soccer-122 ай бұрын
Where is this
@blackriverfossils2 ай бұрын
it was near charleston, south carolina
@Matthew-soccer-122 ай бұрын
@@blackriverfossils ok thank you
@BoostedSpeedDemon2 ай бұрын
Out of curiosity, I thought you're not allowed to keep arrowheads and native american artifacts that you find in florida?
@blackriverfossils2 ай бұрын
you can legally collect them on private property. We went with The Big Dig Florida, a company that finds the sites and gets permission from the land owners so people can dig there.
@BoostedSpeedDemon2 ай бұрын
@@blackriverfossils That's awesome I didn't know that
@jonathanallison22472 ай бұрын
That arrowhead’s amazing!
@blackriverfossils2 ай бұрын
I think so too!
@propertyinmaldives8502 ай бұрын
Can they get DNA from these teeth ?
@blackriverfossils2 ай бұрын
they are fossilized so there is no dna left unfortunately.