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Sifting for fossil shark teeth in New Zealand

14m • Documentary • 2021

A few viewers have said I should sift the material from some of the sites I go to to see if there are any cool fossils in there. I took their advic...

A few viewers have said I should sift the material from some of the sites I go to to see if there are any cool fossils in there. I took their advice and took a 10 mesh (10 holes per inch) sieve to go and see what I could find.

I sifted a bucket of material on the beach and then took it home to inspect it closely under some good lighting.

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Tooth or claw? I find an interesting fossil bone cluster with a mystery fossil inside
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The fossil shark hunt with a surprise song feat Breakmaster Cylinder
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Some very large bones
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A mixed bag of fossils
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A chill fossil hunt with a cool shark find
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Part 2: Retrieving the Petrified Wood Tree Stump - Fossil adventure in New Zealand
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Fossil hunting: 2 days of shark vertebrae, bone clusters and a mystery fossil
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Fossil hunting on the beach: I find some cool treasures washed up on the rocks
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Fossil hunting on a remote New Zealand beach
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Fossil hunting a new area: crabs and some great shells
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Part 1: Retrieving a large chunk of petrified wood - a challenging fossil hunt
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Mystery fossil: I might have found another rare fossil
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Big fossil bones - fossil hunting New Zealand
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My BIGGEST vertebrae yet! Fossil hunting a new spot in a remote corner of New Zealand
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BIIIIIG fossil crabs! One of my best fossil hunts
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Bonus Fossil Hunt Sep 2024
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Crab fossil hunt
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Cutest little fossil crab
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Digging a 100lbs fossil concretion out of a cliff... guess what is inside!
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Double fossil shark tooth find and prep
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Fossil skull! Race against the tide to retrieve part of the fossil skull before it gets covered
15m • Documentary • 2021
Mystery bone cluster in the clay - hopefully it's something like a skull [ancient seabed fossils]
10m • Documentary • 2022
Fossil prep: fossil hunter discovers rare shark tooth hidden inside a rock
9m • Documentary • 2022
Fossil hunting adventure: interesting bone clusters, cetacean bone and more
10m • Documentary • 2020
Fossil hunting and beachcombing Canterbury, New Zealand
2m • Documentary • 2019
Fossil hunting in New Zealand - forams under the new microscope (microfossils)
10m • Documentary • 2022
Fossil hunting on a beach - I find and polish a broken fossil crab [calcite veins]
12m • Documentary • 2023
My BIGGEST fossil shark tooth find, a beautiful crab and bonus fossil prep time-lapse
16m • Documentary • 2019
Miocene fossil shark teeth and a one-handed prep - broken hand fossil hunt series
17m • Documentary • 2020
Fossil skull found - fossil hunting at Motunau Beach
11m • Documentary • 2019
Fossil shark teeth hunt - I find a tooth from the Megalodon's Cretaceous ancestor
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Leopard seals, fossil shark teeth and a mystery fossil
14m • Documentary • 2021
Late night fossil hunt - fetching the holey rock and finding a fossil crab
11m • Documentary • 2020
Fossil whale and dolphin bones - bonus seal show! Fossil hunting on a New Zealand beach
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Mystery fossil crab and another part of the whale skull jigsaw puzzle - fossil hunting New Zealand
18m • Documentary • 2021
Fossil hunt adventure - I go back to where I found the whale skull to find some Miocene fossils
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Fossil hunting New Zealand: a chilled hunt with some cool fossils
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Fantastic Fossil Find - Large articulated vertebrae and some acid prepping
12m • Documentary • 2020
Fossil find and prep (kinda): Mystery fossils, fossil vertebrae and more!
15m • Documentary • 2020
Arlong's nose as a fossil - a rare sawshark rostrum with teeth and cartilage
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Return to the rock slide - fossil hunting adventure in the rain and cold
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Pelagornis (bony tooth bird) bonus footage
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Mystery fossil reveal - will it be a tooth, skull or a weird crab
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