eBay Dinosaur Tooth - Real or Fake? | Fossil Cross Section

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We got a Dinosaur tooth on ebay, and the best way to find out if something is real is to destroy it. We cut it in half with the waterjet and ran a few tests. We also cut some other fossils that we had. They turned out pretty cool when did the cross section and we found a geode inside a clam fossil.
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[@tonybellos9243]

Definitely real tooth. People think spino is a rare dinosaur, realistically the skeletons are super rare but their teeth are extremely common. It would actually cost more to make a replica of a small tooth like that rather then send the real tooth. My experience is that I work at a museum and university in the paleontology labs. That tooth came from the Kem Kem beds in Morocco, most common dino tooth you could find. They sell them by hundreds to dealers around the world

[@Vincent-yn2qw]

Tony Bellos is my megalodon tooth supposed to have a musty smell to it?

[@Vincent-yn2qw]

Is megalodon tooth having a dark circle normal?

[@Vincent-yn2qw]

Thanks

[@Temple00]

@@Vincent-yn2qw lol. Does it have green on it or small pockets that look like popped bubbles on the outside?

[@Vincent-yn2qw]

It’s not green and I don’t think it looks like a popped bubble

[@602jose777]

“Nobody would give you a free gift If there weren’t trying to scam you.... 5 seconds later: keep an eye out for our free gift

[@codyology]

😂 right but he recovered it with. I'm terrible at this just buy some stuff

[@dimitar4y]

I'm pretty sure it's fake? fossilized doesn't mean the internals are replaced perfectly with a homogeneous gipsum rock thing. Looks way too clean and even.

[@MeshFrequency]

I agree

[@angelicupstart23]

my back HURTS that’s not really true. The teeth are found quite frequently in the Middle East. Much like a T. rex they grew and lost teeth throughout their life. Also there are other dinosaurs in the spinosaurus family that are much more common, like baryonx (probably misspelled that), whose teeth could be passed off as the more popular spinosaurus’ teeth.

[@dimitar4y]

@@angelicupstart23 "derrherr they are common and popular" Things like snails eat calcium. Biological organisms can break it down. Bone doesn't just permanently stay in soil forever. Most of those teeth probably deterriorated long ago before having a chance to be petrified. You're forgetting a lot of things like that.

[@LuckyMoniker]

@@angelicupstart23 true but this just looks like plaster if you ask me

[@angelicupstart23]

AlucardPawpad ClownWorld ok dumbfuck. Here’s the point, at one point there were several thousands of spinosaurus wandering North Africa, each of them losing and regrowing hundreds to thousands of teeth in their probably 30-40 year lifespan. That’s millions of teeth. Unlike herbivores which usually had ONE set of teeth throughout their lives. That’s why theropod teeth are much more common fossil finds than the theropods themselves. If humans just randomly lost and regrew our fingers throughout our lives, the odds of finding a finger lying around in a parking lot somewhere would be much higher than they are right now (even though things like dogs and cats might eat some of them, brilliant point made by you), get it?

[@badopinionsrighthere]

"Are you or anyone you know going through a divorce? If so, i'm sorry to hear about it, but we'd love to help divide the assets with some simple waterjet cutting." This is easily missed if you don't open the description, but this is funny as hell

[@602jose777]

badopinionsrighthere did you hear about the guy that really did cut everything in half

[@Gamebattles1946]

Joe is going through a divorce

[@tristanalderson3922]

@@Gamebattles1946 who's joe

[@Gamebattles1946]

@@tristanalderson3922 Joe mama Bruh

[@TeamLosi4life]

I have been studying dinosaurs for 800 years and the lack of a lick test has me concerned because that is the only way to know for sure but from my expert knowledge and vast experience of 800 years o would say without a doubt that is a genuine 100% cavity free spineasaur!

[@connorstrothman7287]

He didn't throw the clay at the wall 🙁 I was really waiting for that.

[@thedude5901]

Yeah he did. Lol

[@Robert-ze5dp]

I feel like some day they are gonna cut something that's close to priceless and lose it in the tank.......

[@__jdmboi__2254]

Lol yea

[@hannahpumpkins4359]

The tooth is indeed real. The difference between a Mammoth and a Spinosaur is that in geological terms, the Mammoth is relatively recent (they were even hunted by man), and the Spinosaur is 100,000,000 years old. A mammoth tooth would therefore be expected to not have the same degree of fossilization as the Spinosaur tooth. Anyway, Spinosaur teeth, just like Mosasaur teeth, are very very common.

[@ceebass9133]

nice observation

[@ABACUStoPC]

I collect dinosaur fossil teeth and I can tell you it’s definitely a genuine tooth. Small Spino teeth like this one are fairly common, but main reason they are cheap is because they are all imported from Morocco where everything is cheap. Many larger ones are composited teeth and/or have repairs, natural big teeth are rare and very expensive. BTW of course you don’t smell anything out of it, it’s a fully fossilised bone that is over at least 95 million years

[@sydneyp3357]

my dad doesn't believe me when I say I have a real Spinosaurus tooth. He doesn't think people sell real fossils online. He's in for a shock once I explain the lick test to him.

[@ABACUStoPC]

@@sydneyp3357 I guess most people wouldn't believe just how easy these days to own a real piece of dinosaur fossil, all thanks to Morocco

[@tenchicks]

It's fake looks like plaster or investment considering how it broke

[@alexbraun6904]

Probably not investment since that would have more of an agragate to it but definitely looks like plaster (plaster is also cheaper)

[@tonybellos9243]

Tooth is real, the fossil beds of Morocco have that characteristic of breaking which they use glue to consolidate

[@kchef6026]

Tony Bellos Is this real fossil?

[@bonzo3485]

@@kchef6026 Yes it is, It's more expensive to make fake ones than to just buy bulk fossils and sell them individually

[@perineum6]

"Using our scientific knowledge." Also, "I've never even heard of a Spinosaurus."

[@pewpewdie960]

R/wooosh

[@alexbarnett8541]

I could tell from instant I saw bright white inside, it was Chinese plaster. Man made. Should be darker inside.

[@loganik3846]

not to mention how soft it was

[@alexbarnett8541]

@@loganik3846 real fossilized dinosaur teeth are thousands of dollars. They usually have cracks on them and look like rocks without much color variation. Major predators like the spinosaurous would be very rare. Not $13.00 on Ebay.

[@AcidicGothess]

@@alexbarnett8541 Dinosaur teeth are ridiculously common because the animals usually lost and regrew them plenty of times in their life. No matter how rare an animal is, the teeth usually aren't unless it's a mammal. This tooth seems to be fake though, for sure.

[@ALF3Y]

Alex Barnett yeah you can get real spinosaurus teeth on eBay and online for $100, their very common in North Africa. But yeah they didn’t pay enough.

[@alexbarnett8541]

@@ALF3Y yes they have some that are pretty cheap. But nice specimens are usually more. Some get replaced by cool gemstone also. Like opal. Those are awesome.

[@BPPDan]

Kinda looks like plaster. Maybe take some acetone to it and see if any "paint" comes off?

[@unbearifiedbear1885]

Acetone bath is a great idea for a test

[@Pro_Vs_Con]

He seriously shaved that mammoth ivory like it was nothing lmao..

[@aholegunner]

I dont think mammoth teeth are considered ivory are they?

[@bobjim245]

@@aholegunner are they not? I always assumed that it was! Learn something new everyday

[@rockyslay4310]

That's when I stopped the video and start reading the comments haha.Respect to the teeth! Come on!

[@westontaylor5703]

Take it from a geologist. The lick test works especially with fossils. Some of the bone structure is preserved and your tongue will stick to it sightly. It's better used comparing the fossil with the rock next to it but it can work with just a line fossil.

[@SkiSkillsMontana]

I think every 12 year old boy needs a water jet

[@cocospops9351]

All I got was a super soaker 😭

[@SkiSkillsMontana]

You should send it to Tim the toolman Taylor back then he could have fix that and a cutter pretty easily I'm sure Benford power hooyah

[@Koler2k]

Most have one just sayin

[@hereslookingatyoukid]

You'll shoot your eye out!

[@cdawson198600]

will it can it should I so I can’t have one? Damn.

[@JJay13Productionz]

Of course it's real. Although it's a fairly common tooth to collect, don't think cutting them is any sort of test for authenticity. Anyways thanks for destroying a perfectly fine tooth for youtube.

[@RugMann]

Ah yes my another episode of my favorite show, Waterjet, with our favorite hosts Bald Man and Less Bald man w/beard!

[@christopherreynolds7594]

It's a real tooth. I'm very familiar with dinosaurs and can say Spinosaurus teeth are among the easiest you can get your hands on. They would shed hundreds to thousands of teeth, and living in the water makes fossilization easy. $25 is a fair price. And of course it wouldn't smell like teeth, it's rock. Mammoths lived tens of thousands of years ago, while Spinosaurus lived over a hundred million years ago. That's 10,000 times farther apart from today. While it's possible to get real preserved mammoth teeth today, every last dinosaur tooth and fossil is a stone cast of their remains. There is essentially nothing organic remaining of dinosaurs.

[@MrVentrata]

Looks like a typical tooth from the Kem Kem formation in Morocco. Fossil digging is big business there so lots found. But, also, most likely heavily restored too. I wouldn’t assume the eBay seller is scamming you, they just buy bulk fossils from sellers who import from Morocco and then sell on eBay for a profit. The eBay seller wouldn’t know if they are real or not or a spinasaur tooth or not, but go on faith from the bulk seller. If you’ve been scammed then so has the eBay seller. The seller probably gave you a free gift to encourage you to buy more from them, no doubt put a business card in in so you’ll go to their non-eBay site.

[@wedgeoflettuce4391]

I definitely paused on the frame with the knives and looked at them for a long time

[@fortwoodmisery]

That is real, and it is a spinosaurus tooth. They are quite common. They shed their teeth like sharks and regrow them. That is why they are so abutment and cheap. The spongy look is what you are looking for. If it was a plaster cast it would be solid.

[@lukeskywalkerjediknight2125]

fortwoodmisery the white thing on the inside when they cut it is probably the white clay they put the tooth around

[@Mikkelltheimmortal]

Considering I have 4 dinosaur teeth including a spinosaurus tooth I can tell you that thing you bought is fake and most likely made of plaster

[@rustyshackleford851]

No you don't

[@Mikkelltheimmortal]

@@rustyshackleford851 yes I do. I have lost 7 teeth for various reasons and I had them replaced with 4 dinosaur, 1 shark and 2 crocodile teeth. In hindsight it was a bad idea because chewing is next to impossible

[@justinhayes2194]

@@Mikkelltheimmortal Noice!

[@doctorsuave]

Steve Staley seems legit

[@evansims2816]

@@doctorsuave they arent that rare u can find them in rivers or buy online

[@alexbraun6904]

So while I don't know much about dinosaurs I know alot about casting. And that looks like plaster, it would have more color or striations inside, or the color would be more irregular if it were actual stone

[@martysmith2422]

The cracks on the surface go INTO the tooth. If it were cast from a tooth the cracks would be only surface deep. Of course it doesnt smell like enamel, its totally fossilized.

[@theswampus670]

Seriously people Check out the knife shop, those blanks are a Really good price and perfect if you want to make a knife but don't have the special tools and skills.

[@Sammonoske]

The tooth looked like dry-wall material.

[@fabianweber6937]

Just got a freaking water jet ad before the video

[@freeman2399]

The tooth would be literally hard as a rock if it were over 65,000,000 years old....not soft as chinesium plaster.

[@trainzguy2472]

That looks like plaster and breaks like it too

[@IvanOoze1990]

The root sorta makes it look real, it's not really the same material anymore that's what happens when things become fossilized, so the smell test won't work. But him breaking it in pieces with his hands made it seem like plaster. If it's real its definitely not from a spinosaurus. probably a mosasaurus.

[@lukeskywalkerjediknight2125]

Honey BBQ Sauce mosasaurs have thicker teeths, and they dont have the lines down their teeths like Spino and Plesiosaurs had

[@bathbomber]

what happens if you cut a Prince Rupert's drop with a waterjet?

[@BALDbee]

If you open it up and look very carefully with a magnifying glass look for rivits also does the texture feel ruff or chalky but hard like

[@readysteadywhoa]

All this time we've been looking at dinosaur bones when we should've been using them to unlock their iphones instead

[@helpmefortheloveofshrek6623]

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t even think Brachiopods are considered mollusks, though they look very similar.

[@pandahorn6733]

That tooth looks like plaster casting. Either a replica or a fake.

[@DKTAz00]

100% Thats a spinosaurus dinosaur tooth alright *edit, free throwing stars, while a nice idea, very illegal in my country :p Can you call it a novelty lettuce slicer?

[@MyChrisable]

I got to ask: in what country are throwing stars illegal?!

[@DKTAz00]

@@MyChrisable It's Denmark, alot of people also get in trouble buying csgo knives online for thier kids

[@MyChrisable]

@@DKTAz00 thank you for the answer, I live in Romania.. not sure of any laws like this, although I am sure we have one about the size of knife you can carry. Also no guns unless with special permit. Have a nice day.

[@arvinp8977]

Not sure why someone would fake a relatively common tooth(at least of that size) but I had one break about 23 years ago that I repaired and the inner structure was not so uniform. The larger Spinosaurus teeth that sell for much more are sometimes composites of multiple real teeth to look like one large one....need to be careful about buying those for sure, Moroccan fakes often use some real fossil material.

[@starg8man]

Hey guys, I'd love to work with you on a knife colab. I do neochrome coatings, heat treat coatings, and electroplating. You could waterjet handle sections out of plexyglass, and then sand them smooth and rounded. The knives we could do everything from rainbow neochrome, to gold electroplate.

[@electronicsNmore]

I have to agree with ZZ Top. :-)

[@KayentaRojo]

definitely real spinosaurus tooth judging by the pores structure!

[@Dino-channel]

Small Spinosaurus teeth are common and are larger than the fake ones in the video and are more expensive. Giant Spinosaurus teeth are very rare. Spinosaurus teeth are the largest carnivorous teeth that walked on land and are also very expensive, but purchasing them illegally will cause major problems.

[@codpastcorner1055]

i mean i've bought a large mosasaurus tooth at a fossil convention for only 25 bucks so yeah real fossils aren't that expensive and mine was in a rock similar (after buying it i removed it from the rock by getting it wet and levering it out after scraping some of it away) to the rock inside of the tooth in the video so just going off of that and how fragile fossils can be (i'm a fossil hunter) i'd say that the tooth was in fact real

[@sirMAXX77]

Like how they conclude it's real after destroying it. Instead of giving to a lab to test, where they could look at it at tell you right away, or take a small scrape and look under a microscope. I think it was plaster and painted/stained. It could have been cast from a silicone mold made from a real tooth.

[@levimcbroom7144]

One day he is going to actually end up ruining something priceless. The brachiopods were not brachiopods they where just old painted eastern rock bay clams.

[@snonsig2688]

well in real life spinosaurus would have most likely relied on fish as a main source of food so the teeth don't need to be so big

[@_jurassic_9890]

that is not the full tooth the teeth get 3 inches long. with the roots they get up to 10 inches long.

[@PANTERA_FAN333]

Also the inside is white because the chemical in the tooth that is reacting to the air but will turn brown over time

[@gunsngeeks]

What can I do to get a set of slabs cut from that mammoth tooth??? I would love to try some 1911 or knife grips...keep up the good work!!!

[@Pinkielover]

The dino tooth would be rock,,,The mammoth tooth would still be bone..It isnt old enough yet

[@Tom-fd7qi]

Teeth was real, you could see it in many ways the enamel ribbons around the tooth, the structure seen from bellow the coloring etc. Moroccan tooth from the Kem Kem probably . I hate when humans just whipe out history like this, not exactly knowing what there doing even..

[@dickJohnsonpeter]

I used to like playing around with the 5Kw fiber optic lazer cutter where I worked back in the day. You don't have as much freedom of movement as a water jet though, the distance from the object has to be exact. Still, it would penitrate (spelling?) an inch of stainless steel almost instantly.

[@planetrob555]

I missed the timer at the top when cutting the tooth.

[@alainmoran8560]

I'd approach the identification by slicing apart some other things you know what they are made from and then comparing them ... for instance plaster of paris.

[@Dank-gb6jn]

I will never NOT like a Waterjet Channel video

[@tony2800]

it's hard to say as it looks fake but it would be more expensive to make a fake than just selling a real one.

[@sloppymunkey2369]

There is a fossil lick teste that you guys should do

[@PlanetRylosIV]

What’s missing? Oh, yes. Music. “Suposebly” 0:12 there used to be music in ancient vids. This tastes different. Oh, wait, there was some..... 4:35 Tease!

[@treeguyable]

How many pre-historic animals were harmed in the making of this vid?

[@boikatsapiens499]

The three free fossils are a species of brachiopods called Platystrophia, possibly from north central Kentucky. It's not uncommon for them to be, for lack of a better word, "geodeized".

[@travisabel4252]

The Waterjet channel sold me a fake knife blank. I know it was fake because I got a free gift

[@MrGoobyTheanimator]

Those rings tell you how old the clams were

[@remlet9]

Heres what you should try to find and cut "wurtzite boron nitride (w-BN)" has a greater indentation strength than diamond.

[@deathk26]

Highly doubt it's a Spinosaurus tooth. Likely from something else and not nearly as old.

[@georgebulbakwa9017]

Comparing smells don't do anything. Mammoth fossils are often bone preserved so they still are mostly bone material. Dinosaur fossils are rock replacing bony material. It will be completely made out of rock. They won't be made of the same material. They won't smell the same.

[@Official-Oldblox_2008]

I wouldnt put my tounge on a fossilized tooth just to know if its a fossil

[@snowballil3133]

Those other things are Neospirifer, an extinct shell its hinged much different than the ones today. Neospirifer is an extinct genus of articulate brachiopod fossils belonging to the family Trigonotretidae. These stationary epifaunal suspension feeders lived in the Carboniferous and Permian periods.

[@supertell]

Would be great if you send some knives to kiwami japan channel. He'd make them in to the sharpest in the world, because that's what he does.

[@FieryCoal]

Nah, he just makes prison shanks out of jello

[@edwardjennings6021]

That tooth is probably from morocco, the large amounts of phosphates in the sahara replace the inside of it, it's real.

[@dcluvspie5777]

What happened to the Mammoth tooth episode I can't find it...

[@a09ndy75]

You guys should do some crazy pumpkin designs with the new water jet for Halloween

[@Trackur]

I'm pretty sure everything we know about Spinosaurus comes from only a handful of bones and a couple teeth. So this cant be real just because their aren't any out there to sell.

[@lukeskywalkerjediknight2125]

Trackurs Territory teeths from spinos are pretty common though, when i was at Tucson mineral and gem show, i saw boxers with lots of spino teeths

[@drechenlard6491]

i dont believe you a single word without the lick test.

[@omarvela3154]

Check using a loupe or something similar to look at almost microscopic dirt forced into all the little nooks and cranny similar to an arrowhead being buried in the ground for so long. Its a small detail that seems to be very telling not full proof but its a very good start.

[@spoony8232]

0:49 That exact tooth?!?!?! Wow!

[@lukeskywalkerjediknight2125]

Spoony no, they just pointed on that tooth for showing where it might have been

[@spoony8232]

... I ... I know, it was a joke.

[@alexandermarden2901]

it is white on the in sid if it was a fossil it would be brown like rork on the inside it is made of plaster or something like that . a real spinosaurus tooth like that would cost a couple hundred dollars spinosaurus fossils are very very rare so in conclusion it is fake.

[@teajays681]

Not gonna lie... if u guys used some concrete polishing pads on those fossil they could be worth a few bucks... I've seen half ammonites selling for $60 and all they did was cut it in half n polish it... Polish also brings out the details n those shells would of shown tones of detail if u took it down to 1500 grit

[@captianmorgan7627]

Before watching the video very far: Spinosaurus teeth are fairly common, and so are inexpensive. Those brachiopods (the clam looking things, clams are not bilaterally symmetrical while brachs are) are also very common and cheap. I can find a dozen in about 5 minutes just down the street.

[@captianmorgan7627]

As a fossil it shouldn't smell like teeth when you grind it. The mammoth tooth is still original material and so it still smells like a tooth would. Simplistically, fossilization either replaces all the original material, fills in the gaps between the original material, or fills in a void left behind by the original material. Apparently the insides do tend to be white in color. What I think will give it away is if the enamel on the outside of the tooth is still present and is a distinct layer, not just painted or stained on. Basically it is hard to tell with the pictures given (2:25 seems to be the best) but I think it is real.

[@timdamhuis312]

It might be real . I don't know for sure. The fossilized teeth of spinosaurus are known to have white spots on the outside. But this one not sure. The brachiopods are real. And the mammoth tooth too.

[@cybeermancom1]

Unlikely its real good fossils are scarce af and they need those for collecting information about the species. No way they will give it away just like that unless they are swimming in them

[@bazookallamaproductions5280]

i hate how you guys crush things and destroy stuff thats rare and so old.

[@PANTERA_FAN333]

That Tooth is real I can tell by looking at it also Thay are common that's why It is cheap

[@VR46Monster]

iam working in brick factory. if you want some pre-historic shells... i got ton of them.. we got clay mine right next to factory so i got it right from the clay :D the mine is like 50 meters deep

[@darwinist000]

Do you think is possible to sharpen or cut an edge on to a knife using the water jet?

[@frenchyfrenchfries2250]

A spino tooth would be the dino tooth start off with

[@jordanmitchell9866]

You should make some competition chopper blanks. I would definitely that as well!

[@gizanked]

So on those knife blanks how tightly do they get nested and what is the scrap like? I'm not currently interested in a kitchen knife or hunting knife but depending on the scrap size I was wondering about using a piece large enough to make some woodworking marking knives or other tiny plane irons. Maybe this is a question best served in an email.

[@svtbill89]

I think fake. If it was real wouldn't the discoloration and pitting be further down than just the surface? Rub a solvent on it to see if there's paint on the outside that just wipes away, or if its legitimate discoloration of the material.

[@drewsenthused6079]

Is Mitchell wearing a Rocky Mountain shirt?? Cut a carbon bike crank!

[@KGiustOD]

That tooth lacks any internal layers and it’s too white. $10 says paint thinner will take the surface color right off.

[@ThadMiller1]

real or fake? But we have no glue, how real looks like.

[@allstarwoo4]

Teeth in terms of fossils are relatively common.

[@MParker8200]

Are your blanks hardened?

[@brutongaster8184]

Surely not, that would make it impossible to bevell and sharpen. Really more of a last step than a first.

[@paulromanelli8584]

It’s cheap bc the teach fall out so much which means there easily found and there’s so much of them

[@OMGitsTerasu]

i think you meant to say the spinosaurus tooth was petrified (if you can apply the same definition to calicum turning into stone)

[@Seventenitis]

You guys able to cut out knife blanks 5 in long by 20mm with out losing it in the tank?

[@Andrew-fo6db]

1:30 oysters have pearls not clams... OYSTERS

[@samuelscott1361]

who had sax with the knives??

[@lukeskywalkerjediknight2125]

Samuel Scott i read your comment wrong so i thought you said "s*x" and not sax

[@littlebacchus216]

You really need to have a word with Wildkyle or PaleoCris I'm sure they have some real 30 million year old things they may let you cut.

[@thepaultergeist8261]

Mitchell has Whopper junior hands 😂😂