Charmouth Ichthyosaur Find Boxing Day 2013

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  • čas přidán 1. 01. 2014
  • Fossil hunter Alan Saxon had a very lucky fossil find on Charmouth beach on boxing day morning...An almost complete Ichthyosaur.
    A very nice belated Christmas present...

Komentáře • 58

  • @panhandlesharkteeth7910
    @panhandlesharkteeth7910 Před 7 lety +10

    Awesome! Wish I could find something like that.Good job.

  • @Kaikara05
    @Kaikara05 Před 10 lety +7

    Amazing video. One can only dream of finding an ichthyosaur!

    • @alansdorsetfossils4028
      @alansdorsetfossils4028 Před 8 lety +3

      +Kaikara05 Hi I've only just spotted these comments. Let me say that until boxing day 2013 I was only dreaming of finding something like this.Keep trying, your dream might just come true one day.Alan Saxon

  • @sallytoll5170
    @sallytoll5170 Před 9 lety +4

    Love this! As a class we study Mary Anning and her fossil finds and this little video fascinates the children and makes the story relevent to present day. Would be great to see the finished specimen!

    • @alansdorsetfossils4028
      @alansdorsetfossils4028 Před 8 lety +2

      +Sally Toll Hi the video was produced by Jason Warren, who happened to be around at the time. It is a lovely video and so well put together. I am pleased the school children enjoyed it so much. I will produce a video when its all completed but it will be some time off as I work full time and so can only get time in on the project evening and week-end, when I don't have other commitments.Alan Saxon

  • @gregparker9614
    @gregparker9614 Před 5 lety

    Absolutely fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @jacksnakes8664
    @jacksnakes8664 Před 10 lety

    What can you say - fantastic find!

  • @LordTrilobite
    @LordTrilobite Před 10 lety

    Very cool, thanks for sharing. Will there be vids of the prepping process?

  • @ZX7KIRK
    @ZX7KIRK Před 4 lety +15

    Wheres the fully prepped fossil? feel like it was a bit of an anti climax

    • @BlGGESTBROTHER
      @BlGGESTBROTHER Před 3 lety +1

      It can literally take years to prep a fossil of this size.

    • @outdoorsy01
      @outdoorsy01 Před 2 lety +1

      Agreed. Content like tis deserves a part 2

    • @eddie1173
      @eddie1173 Před 2 lety

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  • @louispyper5477
    @louispyper5477 Před 9 lety +8

    Can you show an episode of the finished specimen, as that would be really interesting, great video.

    • @alansdorsetfossils4028
      @alansdorsetfossils4028 Před 8 lety +3

      +Louis Pyper Hi Louis the video was created by Jason Warren, by chance he was in Charmouth and helped extract the fossil and made this brilliant short film.I am preparing the fossil myself and producing video's as I go along. They are probably not so exciting as the original dig, but In answer to your question. I will produce one of the finished fossil. It will take some time, it might be as much as a couple of years away. Hope this is not too disappointing, but I work full time so only have evenings and week ends when I can get on with it. Alan Saxon

    • @WasatchWendigo
      @WasatchWendigo Před 5 lety +3

      Subbed to your channel, it's been two years, looks like the last entry was 7 months ago. How's it going?!

    • @eddie1173
      @eddie1173 Před 2 lety

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  • @B4uzzy
    @B4uzzy Před 6 lety +3

    This is some Jurassic park stuff up in here!

  • @customrelic3586
    @customrelic3586 Před 8 lety +3

    Great job guys. Was the area very remote? Couldn't you have brought maybe a generator and some sort of power tool to help trench? And are the recovery techniques different from other specimens? Why wouldn't you make a field jacket to stabilize the rock a little more? I cant tell you how many times i cringed thinking the rock was going to break in pieces. You guys did a fantastic job. Congratulations on a wonderful find. Total time to remove??

  • @tylowren2005
    @tylowren2005 Před 3 lety

    That’s amazing!
    I’m really excited to be a Paleontologist!!!!

  • @Adam-wl8wn
    @Adam-wl8wn Před 6 lety +1

    What's that hammer ever done to you?! Why are you strangling it? 😂 Great find and very nicely removed!

  • @beentheredonethat8387
    @beentheredonethat8387 Před 5 lety

    Super cool

  • @gregparker9614
    @gregparker9614 Před 5 lety

    Well that's a dream come true isn't it :)

  • @outdoorsy01
    @outdoorsy01 Před 2 lety

    Truly amazing! We've found a few vertebrae.. we document our fossils hunting trips on youtube would love to find even a partial specimen

  • @seanchua11sfan
    @seanchua11sfan Před 7 lety +4

    Are there any fossils of Ichthyosaurs found in Ireland?

  • @FriedGatoraid
    @FriedGatoraid Před 4 lety

    Dude get a battery hammer drill?? Lol. Nice find. So cool

  • @disfrutandodelbonsai
    @disfrutandodelbonsai Před 5 lety

    Creí que iban a pasar ya terminado el trabajo, limpio y exhibido.. me hubiera gustado haberlo visto ya terminado.

  • @restybal
    @restybal Před 5 lety

    Looks like hard work digging out a block of rock.

  • @RockHunterMark
    @RockHunterMark Před 4 lety

    wow wow wow

  • @alesjamsek1199
    @alesjamsek1199 Před 6 lety +2

    Hard work but interesting founding.

  • @gaz1tinsley
    @gaz1tinsley Před 4 lety +1

    "OOOH... yer dont want be doing it like that !"
    tell em to do one !

  • @59acres
    @59acres Před 9 lety +4

    I couldn't watch all of it,too nerve wracking.Did they get it out alive?

  • @BacGold
    @BacGold Před rokem +1

    Muito bom bonito de mais 💯👏👏🤝👍

  • @thomasthemetriacanthosauru7030

    So is this ichthyosaur from the blue lias or Charmouth Mudstone

  • @Chiavaccio
    @Chiavaccio Před rokem

    👏👏👍

  • @vetvat
    @vetvat Před 7 lety +1

    What are the rules on removing fossils, are you allowed to dig them out or just remove loose fossils,

  • @CHAD-RYAN
    @CHAD-RYAN Před 4 lety

    Is shale soft? It looks like it crumbles really really easy

    • @jacklondon7801
      @jacklondon7801 Před 4 lety

      Shale is jurassic mud that has been hardened over time and can crumble apart in your hands.
      The town of lyme regis is actually built on top of the stuff and erosion is a massive problem for the town. In the past, houses have been destroyed by landslides 😢

  • @dr.arnoldibarretajayme812

    Where is the continuation of this video ???? No follow up video about this fossil find ???

    • @eddie1173
      @eddie1173 Před 2 lety

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  • @necmettincelik7457
    @necmettincelik7457 Před 2 lety

    Süper

  • @johncummings2064
    @johncummings2064 Před 9 lety +2

    Pretty crude butchery getting it out.

    • @alansdorsetfossils4028
      @alansdorsetfossils4028 Před 8 lety +5

      +John Cummings Hi John. The fossil did come out in essentially 4 pieces. We did under estimate the total length meaning that a number of vertebrae were outside the original rectangle we cut. These were all carefully collected. I don't know how much you know about Dorset Ichthyosaurs. They are usually found in a more robust shale than this one. Typically the bones lie on a harder substrate allowing a better chance that they can be lifted with fewer breakages. Unfortunately my Ichthyosaur is in very soft shale, also there was a fault line running through the fossil and it was almost inevitable that it would open up along this line and it did. We also had to lift it before the next tide as a storm was coming in. If we had not got it up it would have been wrecked completely. Please be assured that it is receiving a great deal of care and attention during the preparation as you will see if you follow my updates.Alan Saxon

  • @FriedGatoraid
    @FriedGatoraid Před 4 lety

    6 years later and still no return comments?? Lol

  • @boldcar7472
    @boldcar7472 Před 6 lety

    28,000 th view yay

  • @robaire.b
    @robaire.b Před 5 lety

    Wouldn't a disc cutter make the work easier and quicker with less debris too

  • @CHAD-RYAN
    @CHAD-RYAN Před 4 lety

    They have a forked tail, but the tailbone looks like a eel tail. How do you know its forked

    • @jacklondon7801
      @jacklondon7801 Před 4 lety +1

      Towards the end of the backbones is something called a 'tailbend' where the bones bend sharply downward, creating the bottom cresant shape of the fork. They dont have bones at the top of the fork shape.
      Very rarely, ichthyosaurs have been found with skin preservation and an outline of the entire body shape.
      If you search youtube 'dean lomax hauff museum' its only a 5 minute video, he'll show you an ichthyosaur specimen with a complete outline of skin, including the forked tail and dorsal fin. ☺

  • @FriedGatoraid
    @FriedGatoraid Před 4 lety +1

    The fossil got dropped and smashed to bits at end of video? Brilliant

  • @chriscoleman6411
    @chriscoleman6411 Před 5 lety

    It wouldnt been a lot quicker to hire a jackhammer or kango

  • @eddie1173
    @eddie1173 Před 2 lety

    Final video of the clean up czcams.com/video/JJZTWWVMGAg/video.html

  • @mitchm7563
    @mitchm7563 Před 5 lety

    pfffft just take it to the scientists on cinnabar island.. theyl turn that into omanyte for you

  • @Dannyg304
    @Dannyg304 Před 4 lety

    Dead channel no activity in 6 years.

  • @violinmaestroknight9347

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    So Jesus taught us perfectly. He even was willing to die not only death, but the death He did not deserve since He
    never sinned against God the Father. He chose to give His life. That's why Jesus says no man forces Him to lay down
    His life, He chose to lay it down, Jn 10:18. God wanted to save mankind. Jesus wants what the Father wants. The
    Word always obeys the will. He shed even His perfect, pure blood for us. His blood is the fulfillment of perfect
    obedience to the Father. Why? Because the Son asked 3 times in the Garden, "Take my cup not by my will but by
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    the Son. This is the New Covenant. In Jesus and His blood, we now obey Him instead of the Mosaic law as part of
    this new agreement between man and God. So as man wants to live rightly to please His Creator, man now must
    turn to the Word of the Creator. So obeying the perfect teachings of Jesus brings us to how God wants us to live.
    The Son conquered the grave. The grave is the end of all who sin. The grave is the payment for sin. Satan founded
    the grave. How? Because Satan started death by being the first to sin against Almighty God. Jesus destroyed Satan's
    creation and fulfills the very first prophecy spoken of the Savior in Genesis 3:15. That's why Jesus came to
    "...destroy the works of the devil," 1 Jn 3:8. Satan came to ruin God's Creation with sin. Jesus came to ruin Satan's
    creation, death, with perfect obedience, which His blood shed proves. That's why in His blood, there is life. So the
    Gospel is God's reconciliation with man. How? Only through the Son. If you disobey the Son, you disobey the
    Father. Jesus says, “He who has seen me has seen the Father,” Jn 14:9. Repent and accept Jesus as Your Lord NOW!!!
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  • @scottmckenna9164
    @scottmckenna9164 Před 3 lety

    Why, that grown man is wearing a gold earring. I hope that big fossil isn't wearing a gold earring. I'll lose all belief in paleontology

  • @violinmaestroknight9347

    Imagine how people were 5,000 years ago without God’s True Book. How would they have known how they were
    supposed to live? How would they have known how they were supposed to be in order to please their Creator? So
    God gave the law of Moses back then. This law was for the people to know how to be. They saw what God expected
    out of them. God had high expectations from the Israelites. Why shouldn't He? Should He drop His expectations for
    love and grace? If He drops His expectations to accommodate what man wants, then He compromised His
    perfection for man’s imperfection. Does a Perfect God compromise His perfection?
    So God has expectations once He tells His creation how He wants things. His love and grace gives His creation time
    to change. He is willing to help them change if they ask Him. Then His creation, while repenting or changing to do
    His will, see His Beauty. This is a relationship formed now with the Creator. If He is the Most Beautiful Being, which
    He is, how can His creation not want to obey Him? How can His creation not want to please Him? The reason why is
    because of foolishness. Man loves his own foolishness rather than God’s wisdom, Jn 3:19. Man loves his sin. If
    anyone loves himself, he will stay in sin. So man who stays in sin rejects his perfect Creator or Father, and
    exchanges it for his own foolishness.
    So now fast forward to today where we have God’s True Book. We officially know what God wants. God gave His
    creation a big help, the Word, to show us how He wants us to live. If we follow His perfect teachings, we all live
    with perfect peace, love, joy and unity. This is His perfect design for His children's lives. When we go against His
    perfect design for what we want, sin, we throw away that perfect plan. We throw away that perfect peace, love, joy
    and unity. Giving up these things is foolish. So sinning against God proves to be the worst plan for us!
    God wanted to help mankind. God wanted to save man from his foolishness. He wanted to help us the best way
    possible because He is Good. The best and only way to do it, as God saw fit, was to give mankind His Son. Why? The
    Son is the Word, Jn 1:1. The Word always obeys the Father's will. The Father's will is spoken through His Word.
    The Word proceeds forth from the Father's will and mind. So the Word that God speaks is the pure sequel to what
    was inside the Father's mind and heart. Jesus is that perfection manifest. He is the physical embodiment of God's
    will and thought. God's will and thought is expressed through His Word. Jesus, the human part, is the perfect,
    physical expression of God. Jesus, the human part that walked this earth, came to teach us the perfect will of God.
    How? He did this by example. This is why Jesus walked this earth perfectly without sinning.
    So Jesus taught us perfectly. He even was willing to die not only death, but the death He did not deserve since He
    never sinned against God the Father. He chose to give His life. That's why Jesus says no man forces Him to lay down
    His life, He chose to lay it down, Jn 10:18. God wanted to save mankind. Jesus wants what the Father wants. The
    Word always obeys the will. He shed even His perfect, pure blood for us. His blood is the fulfillment of perfect
    obedience to the Father. Why? Because the Son asked 3 times in the Garden, "Take my cup not by my will but by
    yours." The Father said the Son still had to shed His blood on the cross. The Son obeyed the Father's will over His
    own. So the blood was shed for that purpose. Nobody else had that kind of blood. Nobody else pleased the Father
    perfectly like the Son. So now instead of the law of Moses showing us the way to live rightly in God's eyes, we have
    the Son. This is the New Covenant. In Jesus and His blood, we now obey Him instead of the Mosaic law as part of
    this new agreement between man and God. So as man wants to live rightly to please His Creator, man now must
    turn to the Word of the Creator. So obeying the perfect teachings of Jesus brings us to how God wants us to live.
    The Son conquered the grave. The grave is the end of all who sin. The grave is the payment for sin. Satan founded
    the grave. How? Because Satan started death by being the first to sin against Almighty God. Jesus destroyed Satan's
    creation and fulfills the very first prophecy spoken of the Savior in Genesis 3:15. That's why Jesus came to
    "...destroy the works of the devil," 1 Jn 3:8. Satan came to ruin God's Creation with sin. Jesus came to ruin Satan's
    creation, death, with perfect obedience, which His blood shed proves. That's why in His blood, there is life. So the
    Gospel is God's reconciliation with man. How? Only through the Son. If you disobey the Son, you disobey the
    Father. Jesus says, “He who has seen me has seen the Father,” Jn 14:9. Repent and accept Jesus as Your Lord NOW!!!
    Then start to read the Gospels and obey His commands. Follow Jesus only, no other man, no religion. Only Jesus.
    Joseph, Servant of God Sent by Christ to evangelize the whole world
    www.clevelandstreetpreachers.com CZcams CLEVELAND STREET PREACHERS.,