What a Megalodon Hunt this Was!
Рет қаралды 1,985
7 ай бұрынThe thrill of the hunt is addicting. Its what continues to drive me to collect after all these decades, even after all the hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions, of shark teeth I have found. I never know what I'm going to find and I am compelled to look. What else am I going to do? Not collect? That is not an option! If there is a spot to go, I'm going to go. Even though the species are the same, the teeth aren't. Every tooth is unique, no two are identical. Especially when you consider the big guys. There is so much more canvas for nature to craft a distinct treasure! Collecting trips are the same way. Wondering what the collecting area will look like today, whether there is new formation exposed or will I have to dig off a ton of overburden to get to the layer. Then, once I get to the layer, what will it be like? Will it be pea gravel or boulders? What color will it be? How thick? Is it sandy or full of clay? How about the weather? Might we catch a glimpse of some animal out exploring? So many variables, no hunt is ever the same. The questions are only answered at the end of the day, and today I came home happy. What a megalodon hunt this was!
@Rockin_in_Kentucky 7 ай бұрын
Awesome finds the sloth party keeps adding up WOW!
@blackriverfossils 7 ай бұрын
yes that is an epic spot for sure. thanks for watching!
@lorne2235 7 ай бұрын
19 to go. Love that battle scared Meg
@blackriverfossils 7 ай бұрын
i'm trying to get to triple digits that would be a first for me. thanks for watching and for your comment!
@ReturnoftheCollector 7 ай бұрын
Super hunt. I need a spot like that
@blackriverfossils 7 ай бұрын
those are tough to come by. best i've ever seen in my life
@stevephillips6973 7 ай бұрын
Its always good when they look good from behind! Lol! Nice hunt!
@blackriverfossils 7 ай бұрын
aint that the truth!
@bobpaup4222 7 ай бұрын
What a great hunt I'm happy for you!👏👏 The mineralization on the black tooth was out of this world. When I was digging in Bako I noticed that the teeth closer to the edge of the cut had more mineralization due to the ground water percolating through the soil. A lot of the teeth had the lightning strikes running through them. Thank you for sharing your video I do appreciate it.
@blackriverfossils 7 ай бұрын
i didn't find a meg tooth in bakersfield but i sure tried! They are gorgeous there. I've seen some Chilean teeth with that look.
@fossil-freak_tom 7 ай бұрын
Santashark is coming early this year...congrats 👍🧑🎄
@blackriverfossils 7 ай бұрын
he's a generous dude dumping the paleo goodies on me!
@richconroy5559 7 ай бұрын
Dang, some of those frags are ridiculous!
@blackriverfossils 7 ай бұрын
i have more to show. stay tuned!
@robertmartyr2041 7 ай бұрын
nice megs :0)
@blackriverfossils 7 ай бұрын
thanks!
@dewey_digginnc4946 7 ай бұрын
I like the colors on 81 myself.. I watched this TV series called life on our planet and it kinda went over the different stages of life since the very beginning. I thought it was cool. Crazy to learn and think about the 5 major mass extinction we went threw and how life just prevail afterwards.. crazy and the human race havnt even been here for spec of the time..
@blackriverfossils 7 ай бұрын
i watched that series too it was very interesting! so eye opening all the different events that have caused those mass extinctions. if I had to guess the cause of the 6th mass extinction, it would be humanity unfortunately, despite us just being a blip on the geologic timescale.
@dewey_digginnc4946 7 ай бұрын
@@blackriverfossils I agree on the humanity party 100 percent. I can only imagine what this world would look like in 5 10 million years from now
@blackriverfossils 7 ай бұрын
@@dewey_digginnc4946 there was this documentary called Life After People that goes into what would happen to the planet after humans are gone. Very interesting show if you haven't seen it. Millions of years into the future, I think Earth will be back into a normal geologic cycle. The sea level will either be much higher than now or much lower. The ocean level has always fluctuated. I don't have any proof of this but I actually think we are still in the ice age, we are just living at the very end of it. When the ice is gone and the seas are at their full might, they can absorb more carbon out of the air and higher oceanic levels will provide more habitat for corals to thrive and redeposit that carbon into limestone which will lower the global temperature and put us back into another ice age. That is unless some super volcano fills the atmosphere with sulfur and super heats us like Venus boiling off the ocean putting all that water into the atmosphere forming a huge blanket forever preventing the formation of surface ice again. But then again a rogue asteroid strike could change all that. Or aliens. Or the sun goes red giant before the scientists say. Maybe a neighboring star goes super nova and decimates us? Don't count out miniature high speed black holes. So many ways for earth to go out its amazing we made it this far! I'm hopeful that humanity will be a galactic species by then and we will survive all around the universe and we can hunt fossils or extant monsters on another planet. Its gonna be a crazy future regardless.
@scottowens1535 7 ай бұрын
Well if you're channel is About Teeth.. Then you Are a Resounding Success! This is extremely cool 😎. I'm a hounder of various things. Bottles, Rock's, pointed Rock's and a few fossils but Washington state has very few of those Teeth I'm pretty sure 😉.
@blackriverfossils 7 ай бұрын
thank you very much! i am also a hoarder of many old things. rocks, crystals, fossils, artifacts, relics. My poor son is going to have a heck of a time cleaning up my stuff when I'm gone 😄
@scottowens1535 7 ай бұрын
@@blackriverfossils hear ya, my friend. I'm quite sure it'll work out fine. I'm in the middle of polishing a inherited agate collection of probably 50 years. Middle Oregon Beach banded agates, many black/blue's. So no worries!
@blackriverfossils 7 ай бұрын
@@scottowens1535 that sounds like quite the project!
@badflyer6 7 ай бұрын
Beautiful finds, great hunting. You should think about writing, you’re a great storyteller. You bring every find to life.
@blackriverfossils 7 ай бұрын
wow thank you!
@para1324 7 ай бұрын
Always amazing success. Your comments on tooth damage is interesting. 👍
@blackriverfossils 7 ай бұрын
thanks! gotta give some love to the battlescarrred
@bobmcdoggish9659 7 ай бұрын
81 Meg teeth, and that's not counting the broken ones.
@blackriverfossils 7 ай бұрын
Thats true. I have a bunch of broken ones that I didn't show in any videos yet.
@NatureLanny 7 ай бұрын
Nice finds! You put desori but said retro lol 🤭
@blackriverfossils 7 ай бұрын
d'oh! You're right my bad! its definitely a retro that one slipped through my "rigorous" qa lol
@NatureLanny 7 ай бұрын
@blackriverfossils lolol couldn't help myself had to mess with ya! Great finds man that meg with the crazy colors has a face or two hiding in the pattern
@blackriverfossils 7 ай бұрын
@@NatureLanny all good man i appreciate it! it was a wake up call for me to pay better attention! my movie editing software (iMovie) sometimes just erases my labels so I have been double checking that every video but this time it was completely user error!
@richconroy5559 7 ай бұрын
I thought it was funny that the first tooth didn't have any serrations and then you turned it over and kabang! STEALTH SERRATIONS!
@blackriverfossils 7 ай бұрын
isn't it crazy how they are always there when you look for them!? I was making it a point to show that for a little while but I figured it was getting old so I let it go. Great term "Stealth Serrations" !