100 Megalodon Teeth Found Near Charleston South Carolina
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- čas přidán 18. 02. 2024
- We have an epic megalodon tooth hunting spot near Charleston South Carolina. It has produced a plethora of fossils, including teeth from all kinds of extinct sharks, from the tiniest hound shark to the giant white shark Megalodon. We found fossilized remains of other marine creatures such as rays, fish, porpoise, dolphins, dugongs, and whales. There are ice age land mammal fossils here also. We have found horse, tapir, extinct elephants including mammoth, mastodon, and gomphotherium, and giant sloth. Diva called the spot Sloth Party because we found so many sloth teeth at the spot, and the variety of finds sure does make it seem like a party from back in the day. The sheer quantity of megalodon teeth has been what makes this spot so special, at least in the context of this video. When we first stepped foot into this place, I never could have imagined the treasures it contained. Early on though I realized that there were a bunch of meg teeth here so I started keeping count. Over the months of digging the count started climbing and today I hit number one hundred, and that doesn’t even include all the megs Diva found, which you can see on her @AncientAdventures channel. This video is a celebration of the march towards 100 meg teeth - watch as I recover each tooth from the ancient ocean floor, exposed by modern excavation. This is not the end, just a milestone. The count is going to climb higher as we continue to hunt this location of locations, the current leader in the race of my lifetime for the best megalodon tooth hunting spot ever.
You should make your own complete life size jaw mount with all the teeth you've found. That would be cool.
i might be able to but space is an issue. every corner in the house is stacked up with rocks, teeth, relics, artifacts, and gear. cool stuff to be sure, but it doesn't leave much room for a life size meg jaw! maybe if I win the lottery 🤔
@@blackriverfossils I was thinking. Maybe have the entire jaw 3D printed in sections. And mount the teeth according to size and position to that. Easy to reassemble wherever.
Done right, a collector could easily pay $100K for such a wall mount. Maybe more.
@@moemuggy4971 i've never seen one like that. it would be cool!
Thank you. Worth the wait and hope you find 100 more. And hopefully Diva can get a few also.
Diva CRUSHED it at that site. She found some awesome ones, check our her channel
Iove those black meg teeth!
There it is! I was out this weekend for a little over a day and found a good seam of gravel in the Megalodon nursery. Just a beater juvenile find and some frags, but I’ll take it until I can make the trip again. Awesome to come back and see this video!
congrats on your find! thanks for watching and for your comment!
Diva’s sass is is at peak performance in this video! 😂 *chef’s kiss*
I don’t blame her! I’d be annoyed with your near perfect fossils too! Lol! Great vid, dude! Y’all seriously make the best team. I almost don’t wanna see a vid without both of you. I’m proud for ya! 🫡 Amazing.
Lmao! If you only knew. I find this AMAZING SITE and he finds ALL the big Megs!... at first anyway LOL. Good Video Kim!
@@AncientAdventures 🤣💀❤️ Love you guys!
its just a sass summary when you see it all back to back like that. i have my moments too when she scores big at sites I find. thanks for watching!
@@blackriverfossils Ok, but…imma need more of her sass. 😂 haha. Seriously, I was rolling.
@@MDWLRK7 trust me. she's not gonna lose her edge.
Amazing!
Awesome videos! Keep up the good work!!
thank you I'll do my best!
Love your videos. Long time subscriber. Been fossil hunting for about 20 years here in N. Central FL. My biggest have been in the 3 - 3 1/4 range. One day I'm gonna make it up there to S.C. and find some of those monsters. Keep up the great work.
Thanks for the complement! I appreciate you watching. The teeth might be smaller down where you hunt but I betcha they are in a lot better shape. We just went diving down in Venice a couple weeks ago and a dude on the boat found one just under 6 inches so you can find the big ones down there too. Best of luck to you!
@@blackriverfossils oh for sure. I'm in the Gainesville area and do a lot of creek walking. You're not allowed to use any kind of tools or sifter now though because of erosion issues but you can top spot them pretty well. My biggest was a top spot. And the color/condition is crazy. I have a little 2" posterior meg that is almost pristine serrations and shine and some Giant Mako that are still almost razors. Lol. I did find the top corner of a root that had to be a 4-5 inches though. I haven't had the pleasure of diving for any yet.
@@GTAirsoft we hunted teeth in gainesville once. Didn't find much but we processed some micro matrix there that we haven't gone through yet. We heard there were nurse shark teeth in it, and that's why we went. Diving is awesome man. The conditions down in Venice are amazing right now. The visibility is so good we could see the boat from the bottom. every day we were there someone on the boat found good sized meg teeth.
Congrats. Good luck for the next 100!!!
wow 100 more?! that would be spectacular. Goals! Thanks for watching!
Unreal!!! Congrats!!
thank you!
Just insane man, cant believe there can be that many from one spot. And i find it awesome that #100 is such a badass tooth.
Congrats! And heres to 764 more 😂
i will absolutely keep digging as long as possible! Hopefully I can get to number 764 😄 thanks for watching and for your comment!
That's awesome! Congrats!
thank you!
Thats so awesome, love your videos
I appreciate you watching!
Whow! incredible I would like to join you guys to find one of them!!😅
So fun to watch the compilation of all that work. New drinking game… Diva’s responses to you finding a meg.😂
Cheers to the next 100 🍻
lol that's funny! drink to the sass!
Sass is so underrated 😊
So exciting, I love the recap. I would love to go hunting with you guys. Diva’s got you pegged, you are very lucky, or should I say “skilled”.
i'm very lucky but I move a lot of dirt too. that's a good combo in a hobby like this!
Yh mate congrats on the 100th Meg wasn’t quite the 6 inch i was predicting but crazy tooth none the less great colours
sixers are tough to come by, especially on cue! thanks for watching!
I just want one 😭😭
keep hunting!
You guys are killing it. Congrats. 🇺🇸🇺🇸👍👍
thank you!
Do you offer fossil tours i would totally book a day trip!!!
We're Toothless Fossil Hunting from 757 Va
i'm just an amateur fossil hunter so I don't offer tours. lots of people around do though so you shouldn't have any problems finding someone. good luck on your hunt!
Congratulations,
keep on digging...👍⛏
thanks!
I’ve done my fair share of digging, but what you all have done here is beyond impressive. I hope you have a great chiropractor lol!
lol not yet but i'm sure its not too far off in my future!
YAY!!! 100 BABY! 🎉
celebration time!
do you think any of the teeth you have found at the site are associated? I know it’s basically impossible to tell but the amount of teeth in that one small area makes me think that at least some of them are
for the same reason you stated, my gut feeling is that yes, some are associated.
I would love to have just one shark tooth, it wouldn't matter what type of shark although a Megalodon would be nice. I fell in love with sharks after I watched - JAWS.
You're in luck - shark teeth are found all over the world. They are very easy to find. Look on beaches, river banks, quarries, canals, etc. For example, in Venice Beach Florida and neighboring Casperson beach, people find shark teeth washing up on the beach all day, every day. most are small, but they are there for the finding. Bigger ones like megalodon teeth are tougher to find - not because they are super rare but because they are easy to see so they get picked up right away. I hope you can find one, but at a minimum I hope you can enjoy the hunt. thanks for watching!
What I would do to go find shark teeth with you. I’ve never found a leg and only got to hunt for teeth once when I was on vacation in Florida. Love your videos bro keep up the great vids!🔥
Where is sloth party? I have been wanting to find Meg teeth so bad!! These are huge!!!
its near Charleston South Carolina
What ?!!!!
Where are you, what state ?
Looks like that no trespassing site 😂😂shocker
Do you sell them ??
I'm an amateur collector so its just my hobby.
Caught diva cussin'😂
this CANT be the first time you've heard that lol
@@blackriverfossils I feel like most of the time you managed to edit around it
@@richconroy5559 i try but sometimes they get through. editing is not my strong suit. i'm better at the digging part!
@@blackriverfossils if it helps I think you did a great job with the 100 tooth video
@@richconroy5559 thanks I appreciate that!
I would love to take my little ones on a fossil hunting trip for megs but have no idea where to go since we live up north.
megalodon teeth can be found in Maryland also, hopefully that is a little closer for you. I have a friend up there named Paul Murdoch who guides tours where you could potentially find them. Google Chesapeake Heritage and Paleontology tours for more info. anywhere meg teeth can be found usually has tours to hunt them too, so that is a good option especially with kids when you don't have unlimited time to research and look for spots. Thanks for watching and Happy Hunting!
@@blackriverfossils That sounds awesome! Thank you so much! Happy hunting and keep up the great work!
@@joshuamuchnick2369 thanks! i hope yall do great hunting with Paul!
I have always wanted to find a tooth like that Ive gotten pretty good at finding the small teeth at the beach lol
the first guy i went tooth diving with told me to get good at finding the little ones because the big ones are easy to see.
Do you have a tour for hunting? You know, the tourists are willing to pay for it. At least, I want to pay for it!😊😊
100?
You ever think about selling these teeth? They must be worth something!
they are worth something and i know I can't take em with me so maybe someday i'll sell them but not anytime soon. its my hobby so i like walking in the fossil room and looking at them.
I enjoy a good beater tooth!
beaters can be nice too!
I guess these aren't as rare as I was led to believe jeeez..
it depends on your definition of rare I suppose. on one hand, meg teeth are not rare. consider that megalodon as a species lived at least 10 million years and they existed globally. one individual would lose hundreds, if not thousands in a lifetime. imagine how many teeth every shark lost cumulatively during that time! on the other hand, nice megalodon teeth are rare. of all the teeth i mentioned before, many did not fossilize at all or were completely annihilated by natural erosion at some point since they were lost. Only a scarce few of all megalodon teeth ever shed survived to be recognizable as shark teeth today. these sharks ate whales and had tremendous bite force so many of the teeth broke during feeding. lots of incomplete teeth fossilized. fewer teeth were complete when they fell from the sharks' mouths. Some of those broke over time due to natural processes like drying out and becoming wet again. the salt in the water is the worst because when a tooth dries, salt crystals form and bust the tooth apart from the inside. so basically everything is against a tooth surviving tens of millions of years in complete condition. those are the ones people want and they ARE rare.