Seatown and Beyond! Fossil Hunting Again

[@AdamMansbridge]

One of my workmates told me (intended as criticism) that my colourful socks were the type her daughter would wear, I could only reply "she must have good taste"

[@seasmacfarlane6418]

😂😂Excellent response!

[@rosemarymee]

All right-thinking people love colourful socks. What a grey soul your colleague must have! Poor soul…

[@rufusthehunalprophet6648]

Colorful socks are a wonderful thing!! I should consider mixing mine instead of always wearing matching ones

[@bethenecampbell6463]

I love colorful socks! Some of my best ones come from Sock Council in Newcastle, UK.

[@flobbertop4278]

⁠@@rufusthehunalprophet6648 gave up wearing matching socks years ago, life far too short, And yes the more colourful the better!

[@seasmacfarlane6418]

Oh, I needed this today. It's It's been a crummy few days culminating in the news of a family member's death, and my husband and I contracting a cataclysmic chest infection! Now relaxing with a hot lemon drink, sitting in my rocking chair. Thank you, Mike. Love to Jenny and Eva❤.

[@divaden47]

Healing love and prayers to you. Hope you get well soon.

[@AcornElectron]

Looked on the news for the cataclysm, found nothing of note in the UK press. Hope your chest infection clears up soon.

[@Desertthorn11]

Sending hugs❤

[@jeremyb5640]

So sorry to hear that. Hope you’re feeling much better soon.

[@tenthz]

The automatic captions show as Bellum Knight and Amon Knight which is just delightful.

[@rosemarymee]

Very Monty Python…

[@G.L.McCarthy-vr1oe]

Love the scrunch, scrunch, scrunch of your boots! Jenny does a great job on you shirts & nice dinos.🍤

[@gigi3242]

Perfect shirt for the mission. The whole time you are looking for fossils, my Eva brain is losing it over all the amazing rocks, lol So many shapes and colors! Thanks for sharing the adventure. Have a wonderful week.

[@johanneswerner1140]

I need to send the video to a colleague, she loves this kind of fabric and makes her own shirts and hoodies, because this type of print is only made for kids and not available in adult sizes, which really upsets her. This is a pattern she would totally wear at work. I wear the typical IT Ogre black t-shirts, I'm clearly no fun (but very colourful knitted socks, yeah, my mom made the ones yesterday, these I made myself, thank you).

[@Dunkelwald_]

Jenny and you are just the cutest. I love watching your expeditions and I am honestly a bit envious that you all find this cool stuff. I am way too far away to find any cool fossils but I love watching you two (or three when Eva is with you). Thanks for this content 💜

[@chrislevack405]

6:53 LotR - leaving the Shire reference? Solid

[@sevenjane1]

Hi, just a suggestion, a hiking pole might help to give a little extra balance on the rocks. I found this really helpful when rock pooling with my grandson, I used the long handled net as support and it really helped. I love the sea walks you do, and would love to see actually rock pooling vlogs x

[@AtomicShrimp]

I'm thinking maybe snow spikes of some kind on the boots might help, although maybe not

[@peterfishley3951]

Thanks again for a wonderful walk and search long the beach. Well done for introducing this retired Aussie to the joy of finding sea glass. Several weeks ago on the beach my six year old grand daughter picked up a tiny blue piece and exclaimed sea glass. Goodness knows how she new about it and the correct name as until your videos I had never heard of it. Many blessings to you and Jenny for the time and effort put into taking us on your endeavours.

[@silva7493]

Thanks for bringing us along, Mr. and Mrs. Shrimp!! That was fun.

[@deejayk5939]

I’m such a chicken, never would do those rocks , truly impressed with you and Jenny!

[@BasiliskArt]

14:01 not crinoid, belemnite was right. Crinoids are more segmented than that. 14:40 small section of Microderoceras. You can tell from the double spines on each ridge. 50:51 those surface features are remnants of the matrix it was in. I've polished a couple of belemnites in the past and that stuff is really tough to get rid of, but you should be able to do it with just regular sandpaper to remove the top layer. Use increasingly finer grits to polish it and you should be golden! Lovely specimen regardless though.

[@AtomicShrimp]

Yeah, I think I might have a go at hand-polishing the belmnite with silicon carbide papers

[@peterspyer1124]

I'd love in perhaps a section of your next random stuff video if we could perhaps get a look at the "collection" that has been mentioned a few times recently. It would be good to see Shirmp enthusing over his favourite very old things.

[@eloquentsarcasm]

We're getting hit with bitter cold (forecast down to -10F without windchill) and about 7 inches of snow so seeing you and Jenny on the shore fossil hunting is a nice change from conditions here. Been many years since I lived near the ocean so getting to live vicariously thru you is really nice, I miss the crashing of the waves, the salt spray and the realization of just how small I am compared to the immensity of the sea. Nowadays I have my forest and mountains, and the wonder of snowfall, so I reckon it balances out. Exploring new places is such a thrill, seeing things for the very first time and wondering what's behind the next hill, or over the horizon.

[@s6edge7]

I don't know why your channel is so random ,but it's fascinating learning about random soggy things

[@Jamnn]

You took the words out of my mouth

[@PeteJohnson1471]

It must've been using telepathy ;-)

[@SlartiMarvinbartfast]

Random is brilliant, who wants to get bogged down with the same things day in, day out ? 🙂

[@vjcodec]

Thats why I love this man. One day we are doing an email scam investigation and now we are hunting for old snails in rock. ❤

[@RedBeardSte]

Regarding rope at 31:15 or so have you seen Elhos range or ocean recovered plastic pots. They do really nice random swirled plastic pots with things recovered from the ocean. Much better to get from a garden centre where you can pick the most striking looking ones. Great that some companies are doing positive things with plastic waste.

[@seasmacfarlane6418]

Here on the Isle of Skye, we have a little artisan business who recycle beach rope into rugs, baskets, coasters... allsorts. Great idea! Love the idea of pots too.😊❤

[@rosemarymee]

@@seasmacfarlane6418 I saw those on Living the Skye Life. They looked great.

[@Hazelroper]

Please do rockpooling!!! I would absolutely love to see that

[@bertouwens]

As someone who does not live by the sea, I appreciate that you always take the time to talk about safety and general things to be mindful.

[@AtomicShrimp]

I sometimes wonder if I'm labouring the point too much, mentioning it in every video, but I suppose some people might only watch one video and miss it.

[@rondean9377]

I'm very sadly many thousands of kilometers from either the Atlantic, Pacific or Arctic oceans so your beach wanders are always a pleasure to watch

[@MarkVrem]

lol Montana?

[@SauerPatchGardening]

Same..I'm land locked in Illinois..but, we do have some streams and hills near Missouri where we found some fossils when I was a child. That was fun.

[@SlartiMarvinbartfast]

What a wonderful, relaxing, fascinating video that was, and no spoilers in the title either this made it even more enjoyable and added to the sense of adventure and surprise for your viewers. Thanks Mike! 🙂

[@Pattoe]

Fun fact about limpets: Their tongues are the world's strongest known biological structure.

[@olecranon]

Rad radula!

[@DarylDean82]

I love seeing the two of you out and about together, seeing all your discoveries and learning so many things. The other thing I love is when Jenny is on camera, even just from the back, cuz her outfits are always so darling. Tell her I think she's adorable, please. ♥ And the hat looks better on her hehe!

[@daniel.holbrook]

your beachside videos are some of my favorites, I've lived on Long Island Sound all my life so I haven't experienced for myself what it's like to stand beside the vastness of a truly open sea

[@samhenwood5746]

I love the dinosaur shirt 👕🦕🦖Brilliant video & thanks for sharing Atomic shrimp 🦐🤗

[@baryonyxyt3247]

If you plan to head by Charmouth, it might be worth a quick trip over to nearby Monmouth Beach, just the other side of Lyme Regis, for the gorgeous ammonite pavement. It's also a death assemblage, but there's no other like it in the world, and it is a protected SSSI. The thin fossil you're talking about at about 48:15 is indeed a belemnite. There's several species known form the area and some are indeed longer and thinner, such as the rarer Hastites sp.. I saw a few of these in the collections of a museum I once worked with. The species is very long and slender, and oddly becomes more bulbous towards the apex. It was quite common for them to be broken into multiple pieces - to my eye yours looks like a center section of one.

[@software_development_os]

19:00 What you call winkels and even describe as piece of seafood flavored snot, is the most delicious seafood we ate as a child and was more than worth collecting with bloody bare feet as a result from collecting them from the sharp rocks ... some people pay very good money for those ... I think in our country they are even forbidden to collect anymore ... I like to see an episode about collecting those and cooking them in different ways ... I cannot imagine someone ever describing them as just tasty ... 😊

[@liamboyd555]

38:25 that's a great album name. "From the indie band Dangerous Beach comes the hit debut album "Slippery Rocks and Rising Tides""

[@deadly-lama]

I love these kind of videos, giving me an idea of how fossil hunting looks like in other parts of the world and near the sea especially. Over here (southern germany), I often have to rely on rivers to serve the same function of naturally revealing nature’s ancient history - lots of belemnite sections and rarely crinoid stems in river gravels here. I’m wondering if you ever found any septarian nodules during fossil hunts like these, as I have stumbled across admittedly small ones during mine in the past. They may just look like any ordinary rock from the outside, except with some visible cracks that really become quite beautiful if sliced open and possibly polished afterwards. Similarly, have you considered picking up nodules at these beaches to smack open or cut in half to discover if they contain anything interesting? As far as I’m aware, they can offer some of the best preservation if you’re in an area that allows for their formation. thanks as always for your varied but ever interesting videos :)

[@Neffers_UK]

The clay (the type you were avoiding to step on), looked very "clean", would that type of clay be useful for making pottery again, or would salt be a problem? Also the Belemnite fossils you find remind me of "dibbers", maybe if you find a replacement for the one you have it might make a nice tool for the greenhouse effort. If nothing else to give you chance to turn or carve a handle to fit one. Regardless, thanks for the chill video :)

[@Sthilboy56]

Wonderful walk along the beach , I felt like I was there 👍👍👍

[@eriathwen1320]

I'm amazed you missed it, but if you look slightly to the right of the crinoid stem you found at 22:55 there seems to be an incredibly well preserved fossil of a butternut squash... 😂😂

[@lauraweiss7875]

The many ridged fossil that you considered picking up from the tumbled clay looked to me like a portion of a mammoth molar.

[@AtomicShrimp]

Yeah, I wondered so too, but I sort of mentally waved off that idea, since these are Jurassic strata.

[@t_poutsider]

i to, thought it looked like a mammoth tooth, ive found a few over the years (not on the beach but from dredged material closer to the isle of wight) and it looked very similar 👍

[@AtomicShrimp]

I suppose it might have been something that was in a higher deposit and fell down the cliff, getting coated with the Jurassic mud on the way down, but the ridges were really soft and chalky, which I think would be atypical for the enamel ridges on a tooth. I think it's most likely a piece of sedimentary rock where some of the layers have been undercut by erosion by the rain and waves.

[@1234j]

Delightful video ❤. Glad you made it back safely to Slightly Terra Firma

[@sarahdreaming7728]

Yay another fossil video! Thank you Mr. Shrimp!

[@Gail8280]

Love the shirt! And any day at the beach is a good day.

[@The3Storms]

Love the seemingly random placement of algae-covered large rocks. Beautiful color.

[@5avan10]

Excellent find on that belemnite! I wonder if those large sections of ammonite that have been worn smooth would be interesting candidates for cutting in half? You could probably reveal some interesting patterns inside them!

[@jbug13158]

Thanks for taking us along, I love fossil hunting!

[@saidchammas]

i'm glad you expanded on the meaning of falling tide you introduced in the last seatown video

[@linaboutin5569]

Would be so interesting to see you rebuild an ammonite with all the bits you have collected. Modern prehistoric mosaic art ❤

[@alloriginalpirates]

I wonder whether you could find a creative/decorative use for all the ammonite sections? Thereby converting disappointment at not finding a complete fossil, to happiness at finding another piece for your project.

[@saichana]

Oh yes, rockpooling sounds so interesting! Rockpooling please! 😍🤩

[@Jennyandersonjenny]

Hi there, there is a new Rogers discount store opened in plymouth. Or there is one located in poole if that is closer. Maybe you could do a budget food video using ingredients from this store. Would be interesting to see if you can make full meals. Or just go and have a gander and see what they got. At the moment they have that vegetable stock powder you use, the reduced salt kind. £3 for a case of 6.

[@fmrmrmr]

A video without baked beans? It's paradise

[@patricialavery8270]

I like the worn down "boar's tusk" fossil, would probably use it as a decoration. Stick a few next to a vaguely skullish rock and make a pretend mythical beastie. Cow skulls were left out to clean and bleach and sold for a good price back in Texas. Southwest decor. Your Missus deserves that hat for trying all your experimental cuisine. lol. Oh well any plastic waste you cannot deal with will someday interest a future archaeologist. This beach is very talkative. I grew up with mostly brown sugar looking sand in California.

[@thetraumabutton61]

That's amazing! You're both living my childhood dream of finding random treasures (rockies) in the beach🥺 May i ask, how did you build up on your rocky knowledge? i kinda also wanna comb beaches to find all sorts of rocks,,, but the beaches here in my area are very sandy.

[@John-x7i6m]

I simply CANNOT BELIEVE that you threw aside Fred Flinstone’s door handle… that had me hollering at the screen! 😂

[@OGKenG]

19:30 - I would definitely break an ankle walking on those rocks.

[@ellem2293]

I remember as a kid climbing round to another beach, from Seaton to Beer. Been to Lyme Regis many times. I do prefer a sandy beach but the gravel is better than pebble, for me anyways.

[@solahifuefos9301]

I used to dig up cubic pyrite crystals as a kid, there was a dirt pile from the school getting a new building extension that was full of them and we dug through the pile and compared cubes

[@Sybil_Detard]

Lovely, lovely, lovely. I'm glad you two and your four ankles made it back intact. Thank you for sharing your lovely walk on the beach. Those collected, slippery and unbalanced stones looked like high heels to me, or the equivalent. I call high heels "ankle breakers."

[@djmystareez5961]

Hello Shrimpy, I recently bought a flat cap from Snooks in Bridport which was a bit tight but being English I was far too polite to complain :)

[@Entoloma1]

Great video as usual and I am loving your Belemnite fossil you found. I'm a fossil hunter and preparator from New Zealand. I find crab fossil concretions. (Tumidocarcinus giganteus). I would love to see you find an Ammonite concretion (nodule) and prep it. I know that there are affordable tools you can use, such as the Dremel 290, along with Tungston carbide tips from ZOIC paleotech, a good company based in England which sells fossil preparation equipment. Your possible crinoid/belemnite fossil could also be an Echinoderm spine, but im not confident, as I dont fossil hunt there, or know much about the layer you were fossicking in, other than its age Anyway, best of luck for the next fossil trip, I will look forward to watching it!

[@BasiliskArt]

Having been there myself and found some complete but very narrow belemnites I can confirm it probably is a belemnite's rostrum.

[@runescaperpglover]

something about videos of people pointing at interesting things on a beach / nature are very entertaining to me. id love to see a collab with The Fish Locker my other UK fix. id think a catch and cook video with you both would be very interesting.

[@LisaLovesFugglers]

Jenny has incredible discovery skills! Please let her know how awesome she is! P.S - I am impressed by you of course Mike, just let Jenny she's awesome too 😊

[@peterk2343]

Another fine video... Thanks Mr Shrimp

[@stanneveldm]

Yes, no Eva means I can fall asleep with this view as white noise… thank you! ❤

[@saidchammas]

9:45 the equivalent of the modern day "girlfriend stole my hoodie"

[@nwrth]

I wonder if it'd be possible to set up a furnace, and try creating these pyrite crystals at home.

[@Laura-nd2ci]

Love fossil hunting with you two ❤

[@Ella-iv1fk]

Funnily enough I was going to go to Lyme Regis on the 15th but didn't leave the house in time so went to the beach at Porlock instead, you don't get fossils there but I did find half a vertebra, maybe from a sheep.

[@alexandregb566]

I've found 3 fossils. 2 of them I found in those rocks that are used to build house foundations here in Brazil. One I found magicaly in my backyard without any explanation. I just found it on the ground.

[@CarJul666]

Mike splitting a rock by kicking it wasn't something I'd never expected to see. It looked very cool. Now I too want to split a rock with one kick. Too bad that I'm surrounded by granit and granitoids.

[@djowen5192]

Sources indicate that in the past artists would grind the internal structure of Belemnites to make a sepia type of paint, there are some seascape type pictures using this medium.

[@stephendocherty6629]

I'd love to see you do some budget recipes in an instant pot

[@pheart2381]

Have you tried polishing/tumbling a rough piece of ammonite? The sutures might show up once it's polished.

[@BasiliskArt]

that only works with the inner chambers, the body chamber has no sutures in it.

[@pheart2381]

@BasiliskArt the striations on the shells which differ markedly in each historical period of their evolution are called sutures. I'm not referring to the inner parts.

[@TheScottyvdubs]

Just an idea, you may have even tried it. Could you try to recreate a whole ammonite frome pieces you have found? Like a franken-ite . Maybe set it in something, might take a bit of cutting and joining in some way, could make an interesting video, just a thought that popped into my head while watching. Edit..... I don't mean to make a perfect fake, but more of a Kintsugi style , like I said a franken-ite 🤔

[@MrSashquatch2.0]

Would be so cool to go beach hunting with you two. You seem to know a lot, makes me want to do some Just moved down to the sunny south in one of the major cities so may give that beach a try! Perhaps we shall bump into each other.

[@christolash]

Great video as always Shrimp! What is the tide app you use? We’ve struggled to find the best way to track our local tides.

[@AtomicShrimp]

It's this one: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=easton.tides

[@christolash]

@@AtomicShrimpthank you!

[@BigShrimpin_]

"We're not here to look at wildlife..." I was hoping that was going to be followed by "We're looking for ex-wildlife"

[@ghostladydarkling3250]

Thanks for showing the tide chart.

[@panikoszulowa]

lucky dino shirt!!! love it 😄😄😄😄

[@EC2019]

Shrimp must work for the Seatown Tourist Board or something.

[@crankycat3026]

Here's one vote for rockpooling videos.

[@John-x7i6m]

You sent some decorative items made from recycled plastic to a friend in the USA a while back- who knows what he did with them- but I wonder if he might also enjoy playing with some of those nice aerodynamic belemnites if you sent him some? Stone Age ballistics…

[@AtomicShrimp]

That is a fun idea, but it just seems wrong in some weird way (even though the fossils are really abundant)

[@johnmorris4003]

Thank you.

[@littlemiss_76]

I love the shirt 😀

[@eddybooth1]

Take a look at the fish locker, very knowledgeable guy for beachcombing etc.

[@AtomicShrimp]

Yeah, he's a great guy and makes super content

[@simonhopkins3867]

Morning everyone.

[@TheJamshaw]

All that clay...could a Seatown pit fired pottery video be incoming soon?

[@AtomicShrimp]

I keep thinking about it

[@TotallyTurnip]

To paraphrase Buzz Lightyear, "to [Seatown] and beyond!" Nice dinosaur shirt though. Could that 2p be even be used for buying something? Wish I knew where to find coastal fossils in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Keep up the good work, Mike.

[@AtomicShrimp]

I'm certain the 2p is still worth 2p, in a legal sense. Persuading anyone to give you 2p worth of value for it might be tricky - even at a bank, you typically have to bank a whole bag of them and they do that by weight, so including this battered specimen in a bag would throw that off. Edit: but it's legal tender (a term that is widely misunderstood); if I owed someone a debt, they could not legally refuse to accept this 2p coin as part of the payment.

[@bethenecampbell6463]

I don't know about fossils, but the Olympic peninsula, right around Sequim, is great for live creatures. Tiny hermit crabs galore!

[@TotallyTurnip]

I was born nearby Port Angeles, but only lived there until I was 8yo. Do make seldom visits though. What about Salt Creek at which I used to go camping with my father and older brother? Or even Long Beach, Cannon Beach, and Astoria?.

[@bethenecampbell6463]

@@TotallyTurnip I don't know about finding fossils, but those are all great beaches for a walk and looking to see what the last storm brought in.

[@jameshammons2826]

This viewer would like a ceramic project from that clay

[@NilsShukla]

Ahh I missed seeing Eva!

[@mikegregory6980]

Hi Mike. Have you thought of maybe doing some KZbin editing tutorials. I for one would be interested

[@sh4dowchas3r]

39:07 not just a pyrite nodule a pyrite frogule

[@RogerPlayStation]

Do a clab with smash fishing that wood be good to watch

[@pulchritudinous.solitude]

Do you think iron pyrite would be detectable by a metal detector?

[@RealATU]

hmm sausage in a bun sounds really good, English but live in the US now and the sausage here is not a patch on the sausage back home, ditto for the bread!

[@HotelPapa100]

What I do find astonishing how faceted crystals are found in a clay or sedimentary stone matrix. I always wonder if they formed in an aqueous environment and the matrix filled in later, or if crysallisation is capable of displacing the matrix.

[@AtomicShrimp]

Yeah, that does always seem a bit strange to me. I think in a lot of cases, they have weathered out and been redeposited in the clay.

[@thisperson5294]

In "Father And Son,' Edmund Gosse says his naturalist father wrote a very popular book about rock pools... with the result that most of them were destroyed! So be careful. 😂

[@TakeWalker]

that shirt is delightful :D

[@steve1]

I think the fossil at 43:40 might have been a section of a large Ammonite I can't remember the genus off hand but I will have a look at a few references and update this post if I can identify it. Edit: possibly a Lytoceras species

[@mickoates1283]

Liparoceras sp

[@NeelamNaseem60]

Nice ⛱️🏖️

[@genevieveogle8591]

Will you please show a picture of the ammonite that you shared with your friend?

[@AtomicShrimp]

It's featured here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5rQpXujpsqLaJIsi=DmEYlZbNwck3J_fF&t=788

[@monkeymanstones1]

The weather in England and New England: If you don't like it (there or here), just wait 5 minutes.

[@earlwarrencalanuga1803]

Any thoughts of putting these on an ultrasonic cleaner?

[@Danny.._]

39:37 pyritized coprolite? 😂

[@ArtSMRdianne]

Have you ever found little bits of gold?

[@JSAC66]

Even though I realize that you and Jenny carefully watch the tide time table, Ior walk close to the cliffs, ’m very concerned for you every time you do it! 😨

[@ghostladydarkling3250]

Morning, 3am, Ohio, USA