Collecting 600+ Fossils in One Day! | Shark Tooth Hunting
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- čas přidán 8. 07. 2020
- After over half a year of not uploading, I’m back!
On this hunt, I went to a site where 55 million year old fossils (mostly shark and ray teeth) wash out onto the beach. After hunting for about 5 hours, I managed to collect about 640 total fossils! It was a gorgeous day to collect. Can’t wait to get back out there!
Huge shoutout to my good friend Matt for providing the breathtaking drone footage used in the intro!
I apologize for being so inactive lately. A number of factors, including college classes and the COVID-19 pandemic, have made it very difficult for me to make videos. I will try to do so more often starting now!
If you’d like to come along on my fossil hunting adventures without having to wait for CZcams uploads, follow me on Instagram @hoppehunting where I post frequent pictures and videos! Thanks for watching, and please like, comment, and subscribe!
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I've been hunting for 50 years. That looks like Westmoreland State Park or Stratford Hall. I'm 65 years old. Back in the day when I was a 10 yo my family camped at Westmoreland SP. We would walk the beach from the park to Stratford Hall each day collecting. Have a huge collection of shark teeth, vertebrae, fossilized clams. So cool to see a young person collecting. Good luck
Im 21 years old and im going to purse state park this weekend for my first ever fossil hunt. Hopefully ill end up with an impressive collection as yours. cheers!! wish me luck
@@josemenesesmontano411 best of luck, happy hunting
Thanks for telling us about a good location! I went fossil hunting as a kid too, and now I'm looking for places to take my own boy. Appreciate it when veteran hunters share locations
That display! You honor your finds by arranging them so nicely!
Thank you so much! Making the display after a long day of collecting is one of my favorite parts!
I used to live 1.5 hours from this place. It's a gold mine for teeth and ray plates! My best was 80+ for teeth. I love all the bitty baby teeth, too. We would sometimes have the entire stretch of beach to ourselves on weekedays. Heaven!
Where is this?
I really enjoy your vids, you also have great rock specimens too 😊 and some sea glass... Enjoy your summer ✌️
Was just at Calvert Cliffs for the first time a last week and found your videos after while doing a CZcams search. I only found one tooth but will get back and will check out some of the places along the Potomac which just happen to be closer for me in VA. Your videos are great quality and I really appreciate how you take your time & don't zoom the camera so fast so we can actually get a visual on what to search for. Really wish I'd seen your videos first, I only found one tooth at Calvert Cliffs (Matoaka), but I did some cool fossil shells. Thank you for taking the time to do the videos, I'll be following here & Instagram.
Purse State Park (it's now renamed but you an find it via a search with the old one)
@@rougeurbleu thank you! I have recently heard of Purse State Park, which may be closer than Westmoreland. Have you been? It looks like it's pretty good. There are several I want to check out now, including Westmoreland and Chippokes.
I go all the time on the VA side it's actually waaay better cause not many people go where I go. So I recommend VA all the way, they have the same cliffs I found a few monster megs just right on the beach in the open
@@johnnymac972 thank you. I'm in VA so it's definitely closer and much more convenient. Do you know if they can be found in the Leesylvania area or further to the south? I've known Westmoreland can be good.
Great fun to watch. At 5:53 I also see one right above your thumb and one far right just above your middle knuckle next to the pale rock! There's also part of what looks to be a ray plate top middle right area. I'm sure you probably saw those too, as you found so many an it'd be a very long video if you actually showed each one. Thanks for your videos!
May I ask where you were during this hunt? And did you dig at all or scuba in the water??
May I ask where this was filmed? I'm looking for spots to hunt as well. Also, as a rock hound, I see stuff I'd be picking up..not just the teeth.
Hey man! I’m born and raised in MD. Calvert cliffs is about an hour from my house and I’ve been going a few times a year ever since I was a kid. When I was younger we would go as a youth group so we had access to a non public youth group only beach and the teeth were plentiful. Now when we go we only have access to the main beach and although I still find plenty of teeth, it’s hard to find anything decent sized because it’s usually pretty crowded and the rangers try to enforce the rules of not going under the cliffs.
My dream/bucket list thing to do is to find a Meg tooth one day. My question for you is what would be your advice for me coming from an hour away? Should I rent a boat or maybe take a kayak or something? Is there any good place to do something like that or launch out of? I feel like my odds of finding a meg are already very slim but on that main public beach it’s next to 0%. Are there any secret spots I can go and look for teeth? Any advice at all would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Love the videos
It's great to see a new video ! I was wondering, are the seashells that we can see in the background (at 8:32 for instance) fossilized or modern ?
The small, white spiral shells are fossils of a sea snail called Turritella. They wash out of the same formation as the shark teeth. There are some modern shells on the beaches, but many of them are actually fossils! It can be hard to tell sometimes, but in general modern shells tend to be more colorful and glassy, while fossil shells are more dull and opaque. Great question!
@@HoppeHunting Thank you very much ! I have found many shells from the Eocene in France. But finding them in the fields, there is no doubt they are fossils. ^^
Those shells at the time stamp are modern shells. Those little snails are all over the place there.
One of the best fossil shells that can be found in the east occurs there, its called the Ecphora , its a massive prize in anyone's collection!
This is hype
I’ve been wanting to fossil hunt here so I guess this is a good idea
Nice spot!!
Opening shot looks like Purse St. Park.
My first shark tooth hunting adventure was here yesterday, I walked past the chimney turned burn pit on my way out there. Got to love Southern Maryland
Edit: got 28 teeth my first time
have you ever found a Chubutensis Sharks there big like Angustiden and Megalodon and
auriculatus Also great finds you found
Andrew Siebenberg thank you! I have found C. chubutensis and C. megalodon teeth at other sites, but the formation at this site is far too old (~55-60 million years old) for either of those species. The ancestor of megalodon (and chubutensis), Otodus obliquus, can be found at this site! I have found many Otodus in the past here, but unfortunately did not find one in this video. Thanks for the comment!
Where did you find all those fossil
Where is this park or spot you went to ?
It’s crazy how many sand shark teeth you can find on the Potomac river side.
Is this the place at the end of about a one mile hike from the car? DP?
Can someone please tell me where exactly this is in Denmark ?
We are going in 2 months, is there a certain part of the beach that you went to?
Just tried to cover as much ground as possible! Try to go where others don't go.
We have really got to help you get more subscribers. Your channel is better than some I watch with 8K subs. Keep up the great work! I’m sharing your vid. I hope it helps!!
Thank you so much!! That means the world to me, I really really appreciate it. You all are the reason I make these videos, and I can’t thank you enough for being so supportive! Hoppe Hunting! 🤙🏼
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Wow so many sand tiger teeth
Where where you at this time? 👀
it was purse state park, super cool and underrated place. tons of teeth and i mean TONS. we just went there yesterday, i love it!
hey if u ever wanna hunt with me in VA on the Potomac let me know i dont make videos i just love huntings!
Where do you go? Ill be in Virginia Beach for work in October.
what state are youin?
I don't find teeth with cusps in Florida 🤔
Is this Brownie Point/Bayfront park?
It's purse state park
@@micahbazill2549 Thank you!
Are you in Florida or up in the Carolinas ?
Neither, actually. Maryland and Virginia!
@@HoppeHunting Well this sucks! I just found your channel & saw this video. Unfortunately, it happened about 6 months too late. I recently moved from Stafford, VA to Tampa, FL & didn’t realize this treasure of a park was basically in my backyard! 🤦🏻♂️
@@chino7287 Tampa Bay has tons of fossils man! You should do some research and I bet you will be able to find some insane fossils.
It's habit - I can't help but see the shark teeth before they are being picked up. I summered as a child on Long Beach, St Leonard's several miles south. My sisters and I are going back this summer to Scientist's Cliffs - it's been about 40 years. We have been enjoying the fossil hunting at Folly Beach, SC for years now, but it's nothing compared to Calvert County.
I'm a sucker for sand tiger teeth
Purse, eh?
Yes!
HoppeHunting So many (if not ALL) sand tigers there! Lol l Made it out there right before the pandemic. Harsh wind blowing onshore and it was freezing. Got some teeth and found a broken Native American knife or scraper made of quartzite.
@@juicebox86 nice man I think I'm going to go there next weekend after watching this video. Do you find any bigger teeth like megs or makos there? I just wonder if they are out there.
@@micahbazill2549 not so many large teeth. Make sure you time the tides. Not
Much beach. Wear waders and walk South.
@@micahbazill2549 A young child found one last year that made the papers. This last week a man found one just after the tide went out . Those are the only two in the past year that I know of . They are more rare at purse , but more prevalent at Westmoreland in Va.. More likely at shark tooth island near Westmoreland but that is a private island, and the owner charges a permit fee.
I'm sorry but to not say where you collected even in terms of a river name, region, or state/county is quite frustrating. Please at least tell people (and preferably near the beginning of a video like this) about where you were hunting, so people don't waste their time waiting to find out and never hear it. It's interesting that several commenters seem to assume you were at Calvert Cliffs, even tho you did say at the end that it was not Calvert Cliffs, and the age is not right for the strata there.
Where are you here? Don't need the exact location maybe just a state of county
It’s Purse State Park on the Potomac river in Maryland.
Calvert cliffs area!