Green River Fossil Fish Hunting Compilation 2019 | Fossil Hunting in Warfield Fossil Quarry

[@DiggingScience]

This trip was an awesome experience! Let me know if you want me to camp out in the quarry again next year! And we will try to bring you even more and better content from Wyoming! learn more about hunting here yourself at www.fossilsafari.com

[@coleman318]

Sign me up! I'll try and bring you good luck!

[@NautilusNews]

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[@Braddy-vp2rc]

Digging Science can I have one of those diplos 🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐠🐠🐠🐠🐠🐠🐠🐠🐠🐠🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡🐡

[@redakumaproduction]

Oups ..i guess my phone was open in my pocket 🤣

[@Doxymeister]

Wow, not even "awesome" is descriptive enough for those! And those rays are exquisite! I am just in awe here--well done, well done!

[@DiggingScience]

Thank you! It was an insane couple of months. So much work, but just the memories alone were worth it!

[@Doxymeister]

@@DiggingScience I had to come back and watch this again, because I have a question for you or Joe, regarding fossil prep. I watch a channel called "Mamlambo" (in New Zealand) who specializes in crabs, but he's really wanting to find a good fossil penguin. Anyway, he has done a few prep videos, and I noticed he used a fixative as he goes, to give the delicate structures some support. Do you know if Joe does the same, especially on that wading bird leg fossil? That, and the fossil ray, are just mind-blowing.

[@DiggingScience]

@@Doxymeister yes, he does! He uses different fixatives such as butvar, paleobond, and paraloid B-72.

[@andreawashnak6840]

This has been on my bucket list for a LONG time. I'm jealous

[@DiggingScience]

It is incredible, you should absolutely cross this one off the list!

[@cooperwilliams9140]

AWESOME We need more videos like this on youtube!!!

[@DiggingScience]

For sure! We will try to get back there again next summer and stay tuned for more content! We are now posting new videos every week!

[@cooperwilliams9140]

@@DiggingScience I'll be there next summer too! Hope to finally get a big Mioplosus! Last year we found a 75% complete bird with the skull still attached, so I can't complain about that!

[@mrrony2065]

I wish i had such a good place of hunting fossils in my area

[@LoganGibbs-cp9up]

Ikr

[@joannhempen8210]

Me too!

[@Wrestledapretzel]

Everybody does! Just look through the rocks and ground, i find lots of prezerved shells, and some ammonites, i wish you good luck!

[@joannhempen8210]

@@Wrestledapretzel awesome! I certainly give it a try!

[@Wrestledapretzel]

@@joannhempen8210 let me know what you find!

[@giantfastroadgoprofootage2601]

amazing video, these guys are just the most "normal" fossil hunters i have seen on you tube, great video, great content, more please!

[@MeargleSchmeargle]

The Green River deposits are definitely a bucket list place for me!

[@CurtisOlson-s5b]

a bucket list for me is some day finding a shark tooth and by the way I admire your bucket list idea.

[@lasselarsen2914]

Awesome finds! Hope to see more of this kind of videoes! :D

[@DiggingScience]

Absolutely, thanks for the support! I can't wait to head back to Wyoming!

[@YsabetJustYsabet]

Daaaaaaaaaaaaamn... Y'all are literally setting up some of my future trips! In return, if you're ever around Tucson AZ, let me know and I'll take you out to see Native American petroglyphs up to 6,000 years old. You can't take them home (if I ever see anybody chiseling one out, I will push them off a cliff) but you can take all the pics and video you like and see some outstandingly beautiful desert!

[@suziperret468]

Beautifully preserved fossils. Thanks guys.

[@joanhamilton2651]

How fun! I am so envious. I love fossils.

[@PsychoTB48]

Joe is such a serious character 🤣😂 great work guys I loved the end result🇦🇺

[@DiggingScience]

We could never replace Joe. Can't wait to share more!

[@truckerenoch8824]

Wyoming Rockhounding and fossil hunting is awesome! I'm trying to make time for a trip to Utah for 2020. I have been through there a few times, but it's difficult to find a place to stop for a _legitimate_ search while I'm in my semi. I still find some cool stuff around the truck stops though!

[@DiggingScience]

You should visit Udig trilobites, u-digfossils.com/, you can find some awesome trilobites there in a private quarry. Is a pay to play scenario though. There is also the Blue Forest in Wyoming, BLM land. Allowed 25 lbs of Pet wood.

[@supernaturewee5442]

Looks like so much fun... but I know it's a lot of hard work! You guys have found so many awesome finds! Keep going there! 💚

[@NUGGETSHOOTER]

Amazing and great video!

[@GeoscienceImaging]

Awesome fossils!! Thanks for sharing!

[@yotamshavit3779]

Dude this has been such an interesting dive into your channel. I'm a Geography student and I've been thinking lately about going towards some other degree that has Paleontology in the curriculum. Good stuff, thanks for the content!

[@DiggingScience]

Hope you do, Geology and Paleontology can be very rewarding!

[@stinkyflour5924]

I'm curious, it's been 3 years. Did you go into paleontology?

[@ljannesister762]

good video guys ,as usual loving the content

[@DiggingScience]

Thank you! Can't wait to share more.

[@keithf.d8345]

Iam your new subscriber now..! love what you do..

[@DiggingScience]

Thanks for the support! We love it too! Trying to make it our full time job. Just need to get the channel more exposure and hopefully build a successful Patreon support!

[@rodwhite9737]

That was unbelievable. Hoooly crap! I can't come up with words I want to say. I'm so jealous. Art that was millions of years in the making.

[@DiggingScience]

Thank you! Hope you subscribed to watch us discover even more amazing stuff ;)

[@chir0pter]

11:38 Gorgeous! Did you hunt around in the plane of that rock to see if the rest of the skeleton might be nearby? SInce there's two legs there had to be something articulating them together during deposition!

[@DiggingScience]

Yes, we did. Unfortunately this skeleton was scavenged.

[@RICDirector]

Might explain how the legs got there...

[@TinaHyde]

Joe is a MASTER. Those preps at the end were just incredible. Like museum quality. Nicely done. How did you transport the slabs back to Florida?

[@edwardjennings6021]

Car or truck are my guesses

[@joannhempen8210]

Wow so was this under water a long time ago and that’s why all these fossils are in these rocks? This is beyond awesome. Just wish I understood better. Thanks for sharing!!

[@DiggingScience]

Yes! This was an ancient lake 52 MYA, these fish died and then fossilized on the bottom of the lake after they were buried underneath sediments!

[@joannhempen8210]

@@DiggingScience simply amazing. Thank you for explaining!

[@williamkeller5541]

Does Joe or anyone else have a video on how to prep the fossils? I have a couple I got a few years ago but I still haven't done anything with them. They are not nearly as nice as what you found but I would like to do something with them.

[@DiggingScience]

We are planning on a how to video in the future but haven't gotten around to it

[@EricWoodyVariety59]

Amazing finds. Thats another dream trip I want to make.

[@DiggingScience]

Do it. There is nothing like it...

[@EricWoodyVariety59]

@@DiggingScience Ive always wanted to go there. Wich Quarry is it? Is it the Warfield quarry? or the other ones I dont remember there names too.

[@DiggingScience]

@@EricWoodyVariety59 its Warfield Fossil quarry. I always reccomend them.

[@EricWoodyVariety59]

@@DiggingScience Awesome Quarry. So they let you take everything you find?

[@DiggingScience]

@@EricWoodyVariety59 not everything. But anthing you can reasonably expect to find. Saw people get to keep huge $3k piranhas they found. You can also dig the wall, its cheaper and the rock is better.

[@cyclenut]

40 to 60 million years old - Very cool finds

[@DigDigDig]

Nice! Always wanted to dig this formation...

[@DiggingScience]

Then do it! Its an awesome place to dig dig dig away!

[@treasurehuntingscotlandmud9340]

Great finds well done

[@chuckduncan9098]

Simply impressive. Love the large piranha.

[@DiggingScience]

Thank you! Stay tuned for more awesome discoveries! The piranhas were my favorite by far to discover.

[@edwardjennings6021]

@@DiggingScience I personally call them arowana because they are in the order osteoglossiformes

[@rebeccaw9979]

This is so cool! Well done, guys. 💕

[@mybluesable]

Fantastic finds!

[@87atxskater]

I cannot wait to move back to Wyoming I lived right down the road from there!

[@mikedo6]

Like many other people, I have a tiny Knightia fossil from the Green River formation. It was a gift from my daughter. That stingray would look so cool on my bedroom wall!!!

[@5721porter]

Very cool, though i do have a question for ya! I was parusing the warfield quarry website and i saw that they keep any rare fossils found by the hunters there, how were you able to keep your stingrays and other rare finds? Did you have a special deal with the owners or did the rules change sometime in the last four years?

[@gibbyrockerhunter]

So cool. Thanks for the upload.

[@mikemedal]

Damn! these guys are Killing it in Green River!...

[@_lak3rs_211]

OK OK I was so caught off guard when Kim showed up! I know him personally. That’s always so strange when you see someone you actually know show up out in the “wild”

[@DiggingScience]

That's awesome! Kim is such a great guy!

[@bobbythebeast6841]

Original subscriber!! ✊🏻✊🏻

[@gilbertclement5427]

I hope everybody understands that the posting time of the video was very much later than the posted date. November the quarries are closed. Great information.

[@ifyouwoooshmeyouhavesmallp7603]

I once went fossil hunting on the coast of french. I found some amonites but didnt go fossil hunting after that. Last week i found a mammothtooth while working and now i am back in the game.

[@edwardjennings6021]

NO FAIR!

[@TeNBeeS7]

WAOU..wishing you guys all the best of luck.. god bless.

[@DiggingScience]

Thank you for the support! And stay tuned for more scientific adventures!

[@tuckerjones4800]

Thank you for sharing. Really made my day

[@DiggingScience]

Happy to share! Make sure to subscribe for more adventures.

[@robertf9290]

This looks fun

[@johnvaneyk1065]

Did you get to keep everything you found?

[@robby8151]

do you ever do fossil hunting in northern Florida?

[@denaredford6701]

Very nice video archeology with art work and craftsmanship .

[@composermuda2440]

It called paleontology because archaeology study human life

[@RonJustDiggingLife]

Cool trip awesome vid. I hunt Trilobites and fish here in NY.

[@DiggingScience]

Awe man, I need to get there to hunt for trilos some time soon! Bet you have some nice ones!

[@TheInvincibleH]

Check my recent video on the trilobite I found!

[@cheshireray5725]

Im going to Kemmerer soon for my bday to fossil hunt! Luckily I am a Wyoming resident.

[@Zikofj]

Hey much love from NV . I enjoy this Chanel! Hope y'all get to explore Tule Springs here by Las vegas

[@gailhowes9398]

What an exciting life you have even though it is hard work! You must be ready to get back into the water!

[@laurenbutters7538]

So awesome wow!

[@lesterksi4521]

Cool. Sure was fun. Great video

[@kylelindberg7771]

did you get to keep the stingrays?

[@Nunya_Bidnez]

I love the sound of chiseling in the sun

[@DiggingScience]

Then you will love our next video!!!

[@DanielBrowne-dz7we]

You guys clearly know the right places and the right people. You might think about organizing field trip experiences / tours for small groups. ??

[@johncase1353]

The place they went to is a tourist attention in Wyoming. It's called Fossil Safari at Warfield Quarry and is open to the public.

[@DanielBrowne-dz7we]

John Case Good to know, good to know.

[@TheSilverFiend]

You show a lot of great finds, but my understanding of the Warfield quarry is that you only get to keep common fish, and all others have to turned over to the quarry.

[@oquendo0021]

Dang, I would so buy one. Found your channel today

[@garyjohnstone6273]

Just found your vids, love this what caused this and are they only in one layer?

[@tinovanderzwanphonocave544]

Wyoming fish fossils are sold all over the world but it is pretty clear that here in the Netherlands we end up with pretty boring small specimens. I'm looking more for the one of a kind fossils like the slab of german pterodactyl footprint sequence that I found for 1 euro in a thrift store and dino coprolites from the same box or my 20 kilos ammonite still looking for that T-Rex tooth!!

[@DiggingScience]

We here appreciate the fossils that stand out. But we do love them all.

[@Dan-ud8ob]

very cool..

[@necmettincelik7457]

Hi from Türkiye

[@TheWhisperrKid]

Hey 👋. I’m a new subscriber. So far I LOVE your stuff. I need more info though. How do you know all this cool stuff? Is this work? How do you get to do this? How do these fossils form? Was it a volcano? I neeeed answers ha ha 😄

[@saltymat2052]

Awesome video!!! How are you guys able to go to quarries like this to hunt for these fossils and then keep them? Is it open to the public or do you know the owners?

[@RICDirector]

WOW. Joe isnt just very, very good, he is crazy fast with it. How many practice pieces did it take to get there, anyway....like as in, how many ruined? And where can we get chunks of junk ones to practice on?

[@arizwe3983]

those are some good quality fossils cool

[@chir0pter]

6:27 did you ID the leaf??

[@devlabz]

beautiful!

[@ryanroyo3419]

I just wow ❤❤

[@mikeforcerer8537]

love the passion

[@willbejamming1532]

Yes. Fossil fish and bird bones for Thanksgiving. Sort of like the very dry turkey I expect to be eating this afternoon, only much more interesting and epoch. Thanks.

[@DiggingScience]

Oh, I can certainly dig a rockin' pun like that. Enjoy your thanksgiving and thanks for not taking this channel for granite ;)

[@markvining9850]

What was the prices to dig at the green river formation,?

[@tinahale1471]

I love your videos and strong dedication 💛 I wish you the Best of luck on your next adventure 🎉 I wish I could meet y'all 😁This is really cool😘👍 congratulations on your hard work👍 love love love these finds 💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛

[@DiggingScience]

Thank you so much! If you are a Florida Native, you can meet us at Fossil Fest in Tampa on March 14-15th!

[@ragingcanine5662]

In researching the Warfield Quarry in Kemmerer, they say on their site that you can keep all the fish you find, or anything else, but no stingrays or something else. How were you guys able to get the stingrays you found out? And will you post the exact location, name, etc., of the quarry you guys were at? Awesome finds!

[@tinovanderzwanphonocave544]

this is just like the lithographic limestone mine in Germany were the infamous archeopteryx was found I never found anything like that in that mine but plenty of fish, leaves, and parts of small dino's again coprolites are my favorites at places like this.

[@DiggingScience]

Coprolites are the S***

[@DarkNinjaShark]

Awesome finds, subbed!

[@DiggingScience]

Thank you! Saw you just hit 1K, Congrats!

[@DarkNinjaShark]

Digging Science thanks! I did! So thankful for each of those subs, looks like you are well on your way as well! Also if you want I can add you to the Tampa bay fossil club members playlist... I’m the only one right now lol. I need to start putting videos up on that channel... been so busy lately tho haven’t had a chance yet. Let me know if you and Joe would be ok with me adding your videos to the playlist though!

[@DiggingScience]

@@DarkNinjaShark absolutely! I appreciate it :)

[@thejessing9911]

So what do you do with all those fossils after you finish hunting for them? It seems like you found quite a lot!

[@mountdesertrock]

Does Joe do this as a full time job?

[@mariusovidiu65]

Amazing!!!!

[@gavinpowers4361]

Are you guys allowed to keep your finds during a y expedition?

[@stephb8178]

Where can I buy one of those

[@lynnroberge1886]

I am so jealous! I want to go fossil hunting

[@Zombie_en]

Is this quarry a public quarry?

[@cliffowens3629]

Looks like museum quality prep. What would a set up like this run if offered to a museum?

[@DiggingScience]

Joe does the prep work. He's taught himself over the past 6 years and has an incredible professional setup. It's hard to say the exact value of it. But easily $50k.

[@quoththeraven3985]

We have these all over Southern Alberta Canada, in sandstone lots of leaves and shells.....few fish. when they are found they are hidden and destroyed quickly by big business etc, as not to disrupt progress.

[@gerrardjones28]

How dare they destroy them, I've from the u.k

[@thomassaurus]

whats he mean by a positive and negative?

[@DiggingScience]

A negative normally refers to the impression of a fossil while the positive is the side containing the animal itself. Now, they dont always split perfectly, so whatever side has more than 50% of the animal is considered the positive. Thanks for watching and make sure to subscribe if you haven't for more!

[@natanahelchamery3521]

Increíble las maravillas , se venden ? Y dónde podría contactarlos ?

[@cowboygeologist7772]

Very nice!

[@tinovanderzwanphonocave544]

you should come to Limburg in the Netherlands the lime mines are super-rich the ground around the entrances are full of shark teeth and the occasional mosasaur tooth the river the maas is nearby this is the river that gave the mosasaur its name most is maas in Latin. the open mines are where you can find mosasaur bones and bigger teeth as well as plesiosaur fossils on rare occasions the original fossil left a void which later would fill with quartz white or completely transparent quartz shark and mosasaur teeth and bones have been found but they are a once in a lifetime kind of thing.

[@frieddino7287]

Hello! I'm a subscriber who enjoyed watching the video. Is a related degree necessary to work as an employee at the Green River Quarry?

[@BrittanyMarie27]

Is this easy to do for someone that doesn’t know what they’re doing/ never done this before? I want to go there just for fun. Just to find something. I’ve been obsessed with fossils and want to Atleast get 1.

[@DiggingScience]

Well, the process is pretty straightforward forward. Getting some of the rarer stuff is a lot of work and time. But if you go, I can guarantee you'll find a fish. More than one in fact.

[@BrittanyMarie27]

Digging Science thank you! Yeah after watching this it seemed like a lot of work so I didn’t know if it was even worth it to go. But Definitely plan on going sometime in the future. Just so I can say I have a fossil ha

[@annasswe7490]

What song is playing in the background

[@johngreen4610]

Camped beside the Fontelle Resivoir in 1984. Had heard of Green River lagerstat so I thought I'd take a look. Found about a dozen nice fossils. Got back home and did some reading. I understood collecting vertibrate fossils in Wyoming was illegal.

[@drealary1065]

Nice rays I have found a baby but not as nice as that one

[@Lap_se]

Wow the wading bird actually got us 😂👌

[@herbertpreira1701]

On what time are those fossils?

[@gerrardjones28]

Sore him comment to someone asking the same question he said 52 or 53 million years ago look on the geologic time scale.

[@edwardjennings6021]

Eocene, just after the dinosaurs were killed by that asteroid

[@tracybranham8648]

Where can I find these or purchase?

[@sylviawilson9748]

Love the 1812 overture....

[@annieberardino8732]

You have a diplo but do u have a major lazor?

[@DarkxAngel18]

I'm so jealous so jealous

[@arizwe3983]

11:49 that bird leg probably came from a flightless bird it's too long to tuck them in to fly unless it was a pelagornis sandersi and of course they were bigger and didn't have much use for feet