Texas: A land of oceanic fossils

Welcome to the channel! If you're here from my TikTok (jared.cooke) or Instagram (jcookepaleo), I'm glad to see you again, and if you're new, you just found a space in geologic time I think you'll enjoy.
This is my first KZbin video, and will make more fossil hunting videos like this in addition to new video styles that I'm excited to use. For more, older content, take a peek at my other socials where I still post regularly above!
I love these prehistoric stories, and hope you'll get as much out of hearing them as I get from telling them. Enjoy :)
Music: Horses Are Faster by Ian Munsick

[@ashton.b]

Jared I’m obsessed with your tiktoks! You are living the dream! That Mosasaur vertebrae gave me chills. I’m a second grade teacher, but geology/paleontology was always in the back of my mind! Thanks to you and your videos I’m able to nerd out!

[@jcookepaleo]

Glad you have this space to enjoy! Thanks for the kind words

[@blueberrybantar]

Could you give me a general idea of where I could look? I've seen where some fossils have been found in Texas but I am curious of the areas where you've had success. Thanks so much I love your videos!

[@bolstay_5951]

Bro that's amazing !! So hyped to watch the next vidéo ! Beautiful find, thanks from France for sharing this :)

[@jcookepaleo]

Glad you enjoyed! France is an excellent place for cretaceous fossils, hope you find some of your own soon :)

[@alexmullen6799]

You really know what you're talking about and enjoy what you're doing out there, awesome video brother

[@alexandermelchers1497]

Great finds there, Jared! It seems your braving the cold weather absolutely paid off! Finding so many projectile points in one day is just crazy (by the way, atlatl - originally an Aztec word - remained in use far after bows and arrows were invented, and the Aztecs used them as instruments of war - whence their name)! And I absolutely love the look of that terminal caudal mosasaur vertebra. It's just so large, I can only imagine it having come from one of the larger species of mosasaur, quite possibly Tylosaurus proriger, based on your location...! Well done! 👏

[@jcookepaleo]

Thanks Alexander! I love the knowledgeable response, always learning something new from you

[@martoneduard]

Amazing finds! I especially love the ptycodus and the mosasaur vertebrae

[@jcookepaleo]

Thanks! What's crazy is that the mosasaur vertebra is from the tail - it must have been a huge animal

[@Multi2794]

awesome video 😊

[@daveh893]

Great following your adventures in the creek bed. You have a good eye for fossils and I'm really impressed with your knowledge. Thanks for sharing.

[@jcookepaleo]

thanks Dave, much appreciated. Looking forward to showing y'all more!

[@huruhooroo]

While watching this, it just dawned on me that the golden age of the Mosasaurs is 100 million years ago, not here and not now.

[@njfossils]

Awesome job on your first vid man, looking forward to seeing the next ones!

[@TheCritterCult]

Epic stuff!

[@jcookepaleo]

thank you brother, you and I are gonna kick ass here

[@njfossils]

@@jcookepaleo 100% the eventual collab is gonna go crazy

[@TheInhabitantbeing]

Definitely going to be looking forward to the future videos

[@jcookepaleo]

thank you, already looking at ways to upgrade the quality and finding good stories to tell, hope you'll enjoy :)

[@BlazedHerping]

Yes! Another paleo channel! Great finds. Nice artifacts and a mosasaur vert!

[@jcookepaleo]

thanks!

[@YsabetJustYsabet]

THANK YOU for talking about atlatls and clarifying that the points (especially the bigger ones) people find that have any real age to them are mostly atlatl dart-points! I'm a flint-knapper myself, and it drives me crazy to hear every single point called an 'arrowhead.' Big difference in point size, propulsion, types of game it was made to take down, how you hafted them, etc. And you found some fine ones. Also, MOSASAUR BONES! Excellent video!

[@pikusmaximus6539]

Well done jared, very interesting...good luck with your channel

[@derekhurt9983]

Beautiful video great finds from good ol Texas

[@jcookepaleo]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed

[@Helix..]

You should do more of these I loved your tiktoks

[@jcookepaleo]

Absolutely will do!

[@ahmedakin4177]

I am so happy that you finally made the video

[@jcookepaleo]

glad you enjoyed, much more on the way!

[@kyrathomas-moore9945]

Great videos. More please. Thank you.

[@TheFireHouseHistorian]

Bro awesome video! I’m in central texas and new into fossil hunting, this was very informative and practical. Also great camera work

[@swartzenegger91]

Jared! Your videos are absolutely amazing. Your knowledge and your positive attitude are second to none! Thank you for these and keep them coming! I'm an Austin native so it is soo cool to see what might be in my own backyard! Do you have any literature, or any places you might recommend I take my son in Texas specifically?

[@tylowren2005]

Great finds!

[@elasmocast]

Awesome finds!

[@Mrpalaeo]

Let’s go Jared , welcome to KZbin we can’t wait for new videos 🦖

[@jcookepaleo]

thank you, glad to join the ranks of folks like yourself!

[@Mrpalaeo]

@@jcookepaleo 🙌

[@cylentsmoker]

Kick ass finds my dude Im from colorado and got into rock hounding a couple years ago Im new to texas my man. Mineral wells texas ive been here a couple days Glad to see texas has geology and fossils too

[@ryderreptile]

Awesome video and finds Jared! Can’t wait to see more KZbin content from you bro

[@jcookepaleo]

much appreciated dawg

[@shawnnorrell1686]

Good job! Enjoyed your video. Great info explaining your finds. Also liked the photo references to each find What part of Texas is this? Good luck and Happy Trials 👍😎👍

[@gayle4s383]

At 5;52 that is a shell crushing shark tooth.

[@ladyaqua4544]

I am very impressed with your videos, your knowledge is amazing and the visuals showing the species is wonderful to really understand the size of these prehistoric creatures. Best of luck I’ll be watching.

[@jcookepaleo]

thank you :)

[@dawson7945]

my boi, let’s go! i’ll be down soon enough so you can show me around!

[@jcookepaleo]

looking forward to it dawg!

[@graceslezak2226]

Fancy meeting you here Dawson 👀! Nice video Jared!!

[@kimberlyhinson4252]

Where in the world in Texas are you? Clearly N Tx. But are you showing multiple creeks? All this stuff you found in the same creek?!? Holy Moly!

[@pimaggot]

North sulfur River and all of its tributaries are full of cool fossils, artifacts etc.

[@keithcampbell9630]

Very cool!

[@domdifatta196]

Thank you for the amazing video it was so cool, when you found the giant tooth there was an arrow Head right next to it the times Timestamp 5:11

[@brettdewolf4675]

Pretty cool stuff.. Granite, everything you said was complete Greek.. I'm a computer nerd, not a fossil nerd... But still very cool.. Happy hunting

[@bingobaddies]

Awesome!!

[@snaphuglue1617]

Amazing dude..

[@ctcollinthib]

Super interesting

[@Leighwhannelsgf7]

this is so cool

[@alexavee3404]

Love the videos Jared. They’re so cool. Do you keep everything you find? If so how do you store me categorise everything? I’d love to see a vid. Love from a British Archaeologist

[@jcookepaleo]

thanks! I keep a few finds, and donate others. I'm not a particularly inspiring example for orderly presentation - I have most kept in display cases from amazon and others in boxes under my bed in queue to be prepared out of the rock

[@hams47]

I hope youtube helps you out, I know there are a lot of people who love these longer videos of fossil hunting

[@jcookepaleo]

much appreciated!

[@sterling8298]

Where did you find all these? In Austin? and how do you know all this stuff about all these fossils?

[@lois5445]

I need to go back to Texas

[@kaya.r5103]

Nice video came here because of your Instagram. Hope more vids will follow soon

[@jcookepaleo]

Definitely! Glad you enjoyed

[@solethrivera]

Hola Jared! Te sigo desde Instagram. Soy estudiante de Veterinaria pero soy una aficionada a la paleontología, me encanta la facilidad con la que encontras fósiles, me gustaría poder hacerlo, y sé que lo voy a hacer cuando por lo menos tenga el conocimiento básico porque de donde soy, hay cantidad de fósiles pero supongo que por la zona sólo he encontrado de caracoles y conchas… En fin, saludos desde la Patagonia Argentina!

[@jcookepaleo]

I wish you best of luck then! I'd love to go to patagonia one day

[@georgesilverman9218]

I'm a amateur ichnologist, I have found pterosaour tracks in San Antonio

[@alfonzomedrano7899]

More PLEASE!!!!!!!

[@jcookepaleo]

More on the way!

[@luzelenadiaries]

Cool video! I LOVE THE GIANT PTYCHODUS! My husband and I do a lot of fossil hunting in north Texas, we have our own little museum at our house. We collect, fossils, minerals and other things that attract our attention. Would be cool if you joined us one day.

[@ralphg23]

Bro about to be the biggest paleontologist on youtube 😤🔥🔥🔥

[@jcookepaleo]

That would be pretty cool 😅

[@Hiltechshipwrights]

Thanks for the vid man. It was great. You are super knowledgable and will have a bright future. From Australia..... Relatives of Steve Erwin gggrrrr... haha just joking.

[@janetbrown4350]

What part of texas

[@liamesthegreat6078]

I wish I lived in America so I could find stuff like you 😢 very nice video thank you for making it ❤️

[@jcookepaleo]

You'll be amazed by what fossils are below you - I didn't think I had anything around me either, it never hurts to look ;). Best of luck when you do!

[@Crumbcat4life]

Me to! i live in europe

[@chloerene7858]

Funny- I searched for videos in America after seeing the cool fossils people were finding in Europe!

[@Crumbcat4life]

@@chloerene7858 did you know we dutchies found the first mosasaur fossils and i have bin also in maastricht wonderfull nature and a nice museum

[@jasonoetting4404]

Where is this located if you don't mind me asking? I fossil hunt in Denton,TX and found all kinds of fossils.

[@sumopunx]

We just moved to Denton! Hi neighbor! Where are some good spots for fossil hunting around the Denton area?

[@KushByTheBush]

What creek?

[@spencerkasson388]

Do you live in tx? I’d love to take you out just west of Fort Worth. I have Tons of access to acreage with fossils

[@tylowren2005]

I’m hoping I can find a ptycodus one day over here in the U.K. From the lower chalk.

[@jcookepaleo]

Some of the biggest, most well preserved specimens in the world come from the UK, best of luck!

[@joshdonathan7311]

We’re you at?

[@peteramarillo8952]

Where in Texas is this?

[@vaniatoledo4758]

Where was this?

[@conniemarni5056]

Like your videos but you might think about saying..oh my goodness!

[@sherylhowell5320]

Where at in Texas?

[@bananeboum]

The video is great! You should improve the audio tho. Somehow make your voice the same volume over all the parts.

[@jcookepaleo]

thanks for the suggestion, I had to change cameras a few times so that probably explains the discrepancy. I'm looking forward to learning and fine tuning my approach to the KZbin realm :)

[@bananeboum]

I'm looking forward to seeing more of your content here :)

[@ttvalexfelix]

Just curious, what do you do in school for paleontology?

[@jcookepaleo]

biology or geology major is the route you take, narrowing into paleontology in grad school

[@ttvalexfelix]

@@jcookepaleo ohhh okay thanks!!

[@ttvalexfelix]

I hate that i have no paleontology schools near me.. It would be a dream to be a paleontologist but at the same time I don’t wanna go to school too far from home

[@jcookepaleo]

most schools don't have a designated paleontology degree, the typical approach for us is to major in Biology or Zoology and then specialize into paleo in grad school. I'm a Zoology major for example. Also, many academic paleontologists didn't do it in college, I know a few who were engineers, burned out, and then transitioned into it halfway through their life. Anybody can publish papers and do good science. It's not restricted to academics :)

[@ttvalexfelix]

@@jcookepaleo How did they just start out like that? That’s definitely something I’d be interested in

[@gayle4s383]

And possibly 6;18

[@subsonicdemon]

Hey man my wife and I 6 year anniversary is coming up and we love hunting for fossils. Could you possibly tell me the drop in location so I can take my wife next weekend?

[@moncier77]

I have a collection of thousands of teeth from Texas sharks long forgotten

[@falconguy353]

Beep beep lettuce

[@macmarie2090]

FUCK YES JAREDDDDDD

[@jcookepaleo]

I'm hyped to get this rolling!

[@LanceHall]

Yo.

[@ReefMimic]

Indian head omg lol

[@googlinstuff8910]

fascimating, man! I follow you on Tiktok - glad you made the jump! Just curious, what part of texas is this - and - what the hell is going in with your hands, yo? PS - i love the informative inlays you put in that provide informative context. Keep it going man, subscrubed!

[@jcookepaleo]

I burn gas to go all over the state- Texas, as is much of the united states, is paved in fossils. And those are probably blood blisters from rock climbing or gymnastics. Glad you enjoyed!

[@melyndalowe3578]

If you would ever want company hunting dm me 🫶🏼 I bone and shed hunt but getting into rock hounding and fossil hunting