This Alabama Roadside is EXPLODING with Ancient Marine Life - A 350 Million Year Look into the Past!

Natalie and I took a trip to Alabama to celebrate her Mother's birthday. Of course while we were there we couldn't resist getting out for some fossil hunting. We found some of my favorite types of fossils there are to find. Hope y'all enjoy!
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[@gageburroughs1640]

Pretty sure that bug was ironically a trilobite beetle. WOOW

[@lynnscott8286]

One of the reasons I love your channel is no matter how many times you find fossils you are excited like it was the first time you ever saw one. Thank you

[@WILDKYLE]

Thank you Lynn! I can't imagine not being excited when we're finding the remnants of our planets incredible prehistoric past!

[@lynnscott8286]

@@WILDKYLE I’m so hooked on Noah’s flood and what use to be here and all the beautiful rocks and shells. I really appreciate your channel so much

[@marykaystreasures]

Kyle you have a beautiful lady to fossil hunt with Thanks for sharing the awesome finds I have never seen those types of fossils before ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️👍👍👍⚒️🇺🇸

[@addish5022]

I found a tooth from a recently described ctenacanth species called Gilkmanius careforum in Marshall County around a week ago, crazy.

[@mattdeveau1704]

Those blastoids look like dried out plant seed pods of some kind. Very neat looking. That tiny rolled trilobite was killer, awesome find 👍

[@cynthiaswearingen1037]

What awesome fossils, Kyle and Natalie! I love the rolled trilobyte, and the blastoids look like flowers about to bloom!❤

[@WILDKYLE]

They really do look like that! We are obsessed with them!

[@wynja77]

Beautiful finds, and thank you for the extra facts/pictures/information, it's always nice to learn more! I would find short "focus videos" that focuses about facts about a specific speices from what we know about how it lived to where the fossils might be found and such... just short vids... I know it is different from what you normally make, but if you are bored or happen to be stuck at home for some reason... ;)

[@WILDKYLE]

Not a bad idea at all! I've actually thought about stuff similar to this. Maybe as an extra video during the week or something along those lines.

[@mirkatu3249]

I love how you can just drive down the road, pull over and find a bunch of fossils on the hill side. And a happy birthday to Natalie's mom! :-)

[@kaboom4679]

The Mississippian strata is loaded with all sorts of fossils , although I believe you may be very close to the Pennsylvanian strata in that spot . The shale beds are often LOADED with Archimedes fossils . I have seen logging roads just covered with them , but didn't have room in my pack for any due to all the agate I was carrying out 😁 .

[@laurieowen8696]

What a great day. So many awesome finds. My favorite was your guys with ear to ear smiles. ❤

[@WILDKYLE]

Smiles are the best of treasures ❤️

[@kimgower1347]

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you my two favorite Beautiful People!!! I think it is so amazing that life from 100s millions years ago has survived in such wonderful condition. I would love to be able to do what you do but trapped up here in icy cold MT fighting cancer its not looking possible. Please continue taking me along, I savor every moment. Can't wait for the next adventure!

[@heathervannatter364]

Anything is possible.❤️😊❤️ Keep fighting the good fight.❤️ spring is coming and there are cool finds everywhere you look. I find my best stuff in the driveway at work. 😊 until next time friend

[@WILDKYLE]

Kim, I will keep making videos to make sure you get to come along on these adventures with us. I'll be thinking of you! You got this!

[@kimgower1347]

@@WILDKYLE thank you Kyle. You, Natalie, Paleo Chris and friends, and other hunter, seekers. Finders

[@dustinfindsrocks]

Dude score on the rolled trilobite! There’s blastoids in my area but not very common. I have yet to find a good one. Some people who met up with me from Washington found one 😂 I’ll get one

[@michelemcguire8995]

Id be checking under the big slabs..

[@WILDKYLE]

We definitely did!

[@kevinbovin7856]

I had a blast....oid watching this, nice trilobite 😊

[@historylooker7]

What an awesome spot 💥!!! Never-ending awesomeness to pick up !!!!! Great show, y'all 👏!!!! ✌🍀⛏⛏⛏⛏

[@rrhodes4433]

Natalies finds were crinoid calyx's. They are the part that attaches to the stem that holds the little arms

[@timgleaves9496]

Looks like it is a Firefly Larva... Don't know if I trust that but when you put that into the search engine that's what pops up.

[@janepinneau4674]

Wow!! What a roadside adventure!!!👍👍❤️

[@loripretti843]

Absolutely Amazing Awesome Finds Today!!! Thank you so much for sharing them with us!!! God Bless Us All!!!

[@danamosley]

Yea! I got to see your video much earlier for once!💜💜💜 Too awesome as usual! Looking for an answer to the bug question!💜

[@WILDKYLE]

Glad you could catch it early Dana! I'm still curious about that bug!

[@briankesterson4365]

You both hammered it! A great bunch of Mississippian fossils! Thanks for sharing the hunt!

[@LuckyCoinFrog]

That bug looks like a trilobite beetle... ironically but impossibly as those are only known to be in Southeast Asia and India. Could be a beetle lava..

[@LuckyCoinFrog]

Yay found it! Net-winged Beetle larva. Several varieties around there.

[@maryzefo3801]

I love the little fossil you called Archimedes😊

[@TJfossil]

Great finds, Kyle! Thanks for posting this great hunt!

[@largent45]

Wow! Those were absolutely awesome blastoids! The details on them were so well preserved! They were awesome! I can't believe you guys found so many of them and the Archimedes! In a road cut! Just amazing! And those were some well defined horn corals and even the rolled trilobite! Wow! Only the rolled ones, can you be sure that the animal was alive and is not a molt. So congratulations on that find! He will clean up nicely and be a proud display piece, just a tiny one! Lol! You and Natalie just slayed it out there! Loving it so much! Man you two just rock! ❤

[@twostonefox]

Hi Natalie & WildKyle! 😊 Lightning Bug Larva - it has a bio luminescent tip on the tail and can be a rather large six legged bug.

[@twostonefox]

AND- they are DELICIOUS!!! [smirk] not really . . .

[@twostonefox]

Fire up the grill! I got two words for you- Sweet Baby Ray's!!!

[@TheFossilFiend]

great finds! Your little rolly trilo would look spectacular after being prepped out!

[@carolkemp2571]

Awesome fossils! That was so fun and I'm a little envious. 😊

I am absolutely Loving this! ❤

[@Whateverhasbeenmynameforyears]

Congrats on the trilobite! so cute!

[@WILDKYLE]

Thank you! I'm over the moon about it!

[@danamosley]

Those look like sea urchins!😊 I know it's not, but tell me it doesn't look like it 😂

[@WILDKYLE]

That's because they are related to sea urchins!

[@danamosley]

I know 💜🥰

[@betsywarner2773]

What a fabulous road cut! I've never seen so many blastoids in one place. You can be picky about the keepers. Growing up I mainly collected Devonian and Ordivician fossils in Ohio. And congratulations on the complete trilobite!!!

[@heathervannatter364]

Good morning Kyle and Nat! Nice finds great time

[@bartcubbins3528]

Thanks for sharing your adventures and finds with us!!! awesome Day!!!👊💥🤙🤘✌️🤟💚😎

[@gracewashburn8276]

Kyle, you are slaying it with the fossils lately. It is just awesome keep up those wonderful adventures like that I want to see more and let me know if some of this is for sale because I want a piece.😂❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@graemero5532]

Cheers Wildcouple, cool video 😁

[@maryzefo3801]

When I was about 60 and my little sister is 50 we were sitting out in Mom's driveway and we found so many of the fossil crinoid we found so many we couldn't stop picking them up until my mom came out and said hey you're going to pick up my whole driveway she really didn't...... I wish she'd get another truck load of gravel put on so we could pick through it😅 one of the best places I have found different types of fossils is a Creek in Hamilton Illinois I do believe the creek comes off the Mississippi....

[@AvalonDreamz]

That looks like so much fun. Something I would love to take my son to. Great video Kyle.

[@michellewaldvogel3221]

You need to have another one of your live auction things. Like the last one to raise money for your truck that was so much fun. Maybe a fundraiser in your mums name I bet it would do amazingly. Plus late night fun and pizza orders to go with. What could be better.

[@cordula5233]

I really like the information you showed at the beginning. Really great finds.

[@chrisbgifford7387]

that looks like a lot of fun.

[@judymarkel8029]

That was great fun

[@hualian697]

Beautiful Fossils, I love watching your videos thank you for making my day god bless ❤

[@WILDKYLE]

This comment made my day! Thank you ❤️

[@hualian697]

​@@WILDKYLEawww your welcome 💖

[@savagesquirrel9828]

I think the bug is not a larva, as I guessed. It seems to have six legs, so….an insect. Not a centipede, etc. Really cool. If you find out, let us know! It looks as primitive as your finds!

[@user-in8ep9tz9r]

I haven't seen any video's from you in a while 🤔...this one was awesome ❤❤❤❤

[@alenedrummond4627]

Fabulous finds! Nice Vid! Im traveling through AL at end of February...PLEASE DM me of location of this cut. I need to reconnect with treasure. I find myself spiraling these days.

[@jaynehorn151]

Excellent finds!

[@BIGALL7777]

The blastoids are really cool 😎 Awesome trilobite Kyle ! The horn coral is nice too. Never seen a bug like that before. Weird ! That was a fun fossil hunt. Best wishes and regards to both of you ❤

[@justjoy4239]

Another fun adventure and great finds!

[@WhiteHorseAcres]

Great finds.

[@marciajohnson6767]

Very cool finds 😊😊😊

[@victoriamontes3213]

Great finds! Those blastoids are amazing!!!

[@Gorillatagpro979]

66 views and 9 minutes ago dang your popular!! Lol

[@WILDKYLE]

Haha thank you!

[@kellyharper367]

Old disabled house bound dusty rusty rockhound here: Oh! I wish I had been there. I love shaley road cut fossil hunting! I've never been at a site where it's one blastoid after another. Maybe I'd get about 10 per day on a good day. I'm crazy about blastoids, echinoderms, and trilobites! I love the symmetry of their anatomy. Stay wilde Kyle!

[@mikepetrucha2774]

Someone mentioned the weird bug looks like a trilobite beetle. It does look similar to one, but they are found in SE Asia and India. It is a beetle larva of some kind, maybe a firefly larva, but I'm not sure of the species. The 1st blastoid you found was perfect. Congratulation on the trilobite. Every time you find one, I hate you for a little bit. It looks like both you and Natalie made some cool finds. Thanks for sharing.

[@Whateverhasbeenmynameforyears]

Two things: I have found most Mississippian fossils have calcite crystals in them. Also the white in your horn coral might be common opal. Anywhere you get quartz you CAN get opal.

[@spoonangelmakes42]

As usual a fantastic video Kyle. Am so envious of your adventures. wish we had places like that in the uk... x

[@WILDKYLE]

Thank you so much! ❤️

[@1914sweet]

If you can find the division between limestone and shale, you could maybe pull out plates with complete crinoids or other animals on them. There's a guy who bought land, a creek bed in Crawfordsville In. and found a whole quarry of plates. He knew just where to look. Tom Witherspoon is his name.

[@geoWhite]

Great video, super finds.

[@PaintedTurtle001]

Cool video. 👍 Nice finds.

[@michelemcguire8995]

Awesomeness

[@GREEKEXPLORERS]

Amazing video!! Thanks for sharing!!

[@loganmurray7238]

Beautiful finds ❤️ well done 🎉

[@Algoldprospecting]

I live in Alabama. Don’t look for fossils. I’m more into the gold and gemstones. But very cool finds 😊😊

[@nhrockaholic6038]

Jealous!!! Love the trilobite!!

[@TheWonderwy]

Wow!👍

[@lisawilson3759]

Great job! Happy to see you back!

[@wenditaylor9708]

Fun little adventure! Thank you!

[@Notyamom]

You and I were saying the same thing at the same time. Wow , that's Clean. Wow that's amazing. Did you get rubbings ? ✝️🤟

[@emmysue7275]

Laissez les bon temps rouler!

[@triple_A_rockhound]

Ground finds r best to find

[@sherrie545]

Love watching you two hunt fossils and shells together! Very educational!

[@sanchapa5185]

Fun stuff, the close-ups look particularly crispy!

[@grayhaven451]

Great hunt you two. Keep um coming Kyle cause your videos are the highlight of the week. Maybe you can explain the cleaning process for little fossils like this?

[@WILDKYLE]

Thanks so much my friend! All we did to clean these was a toothbrush and dish soap!

[@huntingrocks]

Good lord that spot is filthy with Blastoids and Archimedes .. But that rolled Trilobite ( Chefs Kiss .... or if I was there a Jeff's Kiss LOL )

[@noahgarwood2610]

The bug is a firefly larva! There's a species in the lampyridae (firefly) family called a trilobite beetle because the females are neotenous (stay in larval form through maturity) and looks like that one through adulthood! They're a tropic species though

[@coachkevinwilson1958]

Wow, fantastic preservation on those beautiful fossils. Congrats to you both!

[@Notyamom]

You and I were saying the same thing at the same time. Wow , that's Clean. Wow that's amazing. Did you do rubbings ? ✝️🤟

[@nanak2025]

Hi you two! I really appreciated the pictures of what you were looking for and the graph of the periods. This was an amazing site! Thank you for taking us along!

[@tizianocaronni702]

Amazing the multiple blastoid finds, that fossil is it incredible for the preserved details. Nice video👍

[@AngieJames4172]

Hi Kyle! Another great video, you never disappoint! You and Natalie found some amazing fossils. So great to see y'all again. Take care and be safe!

[@kirsiselei8703]

What a cool hunt for fossiles 👍❤️. I love how one can find those in roadcuts in there. 👋🇫🇮

[@TheAdminjack]

Looks like you found a live fos sr il there..🤣👍 I think maybe it was a Hellgrammite.

[@kathysmith4261]

Blastoids were amazing I love them. Thanks for another awesome video great finds😊❤

[@Julianne955]

I can't choose my favorite fossil this time...they're all beautiful! I so want to go fossil hunting with you! Have a wonderful week Kyle and Natalie! I'm loving the adventures you're taking us!

[@sunshineshelley17]

I think the funny little round things are skate denticles. They look like a “thorn” on top..these in your video look like they just need a cleaning to reveal the “thorn” looking part.

[@markusgross9494]

Killer trilobite. Love the Deltodus tooth as well. I believe the bug you photographed was a lightning beetle larvae. Congrats to Natalie on her Phanocrinus crinoid cups, Agassizocrinoid calyx and the awesome 3-D brachiopods. Awesome day.

[@mikestahl3322]

How do you know where to go? Thanks brother!

[@WILDKYLE]

I usually look at geologic maps and explore! This spot in particular is a place I went to with friends a while back and visited it again with their permission. :)

[@mikestahl3322]

Thanks! I live in howell michigan and find pudding stones in my backyard and fossils! Love all your videos

[@teresaradford4467]

Loved all the finds. I would love to find things like that but Oregon is a little too far for a day trip to hunt fossils.

[@Catrina3732]

The stuff dreams are made of!!! I grew up near a gravel pit in Michigan. I was always hauling home cool rocks and fossils. I still love looking for them today (in my landscaping stones which come out of our local gravel pits) 😁. No shark teeth though in Michigan (that I know of anyway).

[@Allaroundgamer-gs5vs]

I think the fossil you found at 21:06 was a Placoderm mouth plate

[@catholic3dod790]

Yeah, I knew I was right when I drove on I-20 west highway. Similar that rocks and roadside baby mountains. I never stopped and never checked the rocks. Darn it. Subscribe 👍😃

[@missourislave7963]

That Kaskia chesterensis is a really great find, congratulations!

[@WILDKYLE]

Thank you! I'm thrilled about it!

[@valsummers5330]

Trilobite rolled up like a pill bug!! How cool is that! And the blastoids Archimedes and well all of it really!!

[@elizabethlewis3509]

Nothing like a successful Hunt. Is there books where to find fossils in the US?

[@gentianvandewerken929]

they do not notify me when im subscribed and asked to be!

[@user-os8hm9vr3r]

I was wondering are you get back to bottle digging? I miss those.

[@WILDKYLE]

Yep should be out for some digging very soon!

[@user-os8hm9vr3r]

@@WILDKYLE I might not have a KZbin channel but the best thing I've ever found was a 19th century Double Barrel Shotgun! One of the Hammers intact some some shotgun shells a shotgun spring , and mechanism piece all in the same dump I'm still digging in the dump it goes back early 1890's till 1935! This was all 2023 from Summer Vacation . I'm in school The best dump discovery from 1890's medicine to a WWI relic and more! From Minnesota 10th Grader Fan👍been digging in my woods since 2020 learning real history to teach myself and you teaching me a thing or 2. Thank Kyle! U.S.A,U.S.A,U.S.A! Your a PATRIOT!

[@atuuschaaw]

♥

[@ross.2003]

Archimedes = forbidden pasta. And every time you say Blastoid, I think of Blastoise.

[@likeakite]

Loved it