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megalodon as a species frequented this region to feed on the whales here. the sharks lost teeth which fell to the ocean floor, got covered by sediment and fossilized. over time the ocean level fluctuated and eroded away all those deposits, redepositing them all in the same strata. that happened a bunch of times over millions of years. during the ice age the ocean level fell again and rivers flowed through this area, eroding out all those deposits and piled them together just like modern rivers do. finally, excavation for a borrow pit exposed the deposits created by one of those ice age river flows and that's why there is so much here. this video just concentrated on the plethora of megalodon teeth, but there were all kinds of ice age animals in those deposits too. there were elephants, horses, tapirs, giant sloths, and more which you can see in my Sloth Party playlist. it was truly a remarkable site. thanks for watching and for the sub!

megalodon must have had tremendous bite force to be able to feed on whales. truly a magnificent creature!

it could be pretty on the inside if it was unbroken, ie no river water and sand had entered the interior chamber. once the interior is exposed, algae gets in , dirt fills all the cracks, and it becomes discolored by the acidic water. its very much like a geode. I'm a delayed gratification kind of guy so I always wait to cut them open. I have hundreds of geodes waiting as well. that's going to be a fun video!

@@blackriverfossils ohhhh i see thats cool information! ill wait for that video lol

i've never tried on beaches but its possible if you find teeth regularly and there is tiny gravel in the sand. a perfect example would be caspersen beach which is just south of Venice. That beach has loads of small teeth and you can see tiny pieces of phosphate all over the place. I believe that beach could produce micro fossils.

@@blackriverfossils thank you! Usefull advice for sure

it is no longer accessible. i am just very far behind on editing and publishing the videos for youtube.

South Carolina, near Charleston

what an awesome legacy it is to have a family farm with artifacts! its too bad most are broken, but in reality most of the points I find are broken too, no matter where I go. I have a site I haven't posted yet where I have found hundreds of points also, and the land has never been farmed, and probably 3/4 of the points are broken also. The material is quite brittle there so I'm sure that has something to do with it. They used them so they could eat and breaks happened often. thanks for reaching out. Good luck on your hunts!

@@blackriverfossils I agree with you and I am very thankful & respectful of undeveloped land in general! In these times, however, watching residential growth accelerate across 100+ year old growth forests with track homes is silent torture. Proof that change will come one day regardless. Across the river from our place is a neighbor with some cattle. He is old and unwell unfortunately but he recently told me a story about his father showing him native gravesites along the river in the late 50’s. He can’t remember where but he remembers moss covered rocks having rough engraving of unrecognizable language across them! I’m super excited about this and think this confirms what I’ve believed about the property all along. It also gives evidence that finding any artifacts today is truly a gift against increasing odds. I guess we are both wowed by the potential story behind each artifact or fossil. Thank you for sharing your thoughts & experience. Makes me feel better about the broken points. I still comparatively have so much to learn and understand about these natives. The ancient towns and villages of these people are practically unknown and supported only by what we find! Good hunting.

@@colt110987 its happening in the lowcountry too. beautiful forests full of majestic live oak trees, easily hundreds of years old, are being bulldozed to make way for condos, apartments, and housing developments for droves of new people to move into. our antebellum past is being buried under concrete, along with the remnants of the Native Americans who lived here for thousands of years before. The fossils are deeper still, and they are lost as soon as the pavement and buildings go in too. progress is painful. i feel for the animals who have nowhere to go. By the end of my life there won't be a non-landscaped tree left around here. Your cattle farming neighbor's story is remarkable! Have you ever seen those rocks with carvings? If I ever came across something like that I would be taking pictures! Native americans always were close to water, so if you're close to a river your farm is likely richer than you already know! youtube is a great place to learn about stuff like this, there are all kinds of knowledgeable people, not to mention jaw dropping finds all over the place! I wish you the best of luck in your hunt and your quest to learn about the people who lived on your farm thousands of years ago. If you ever post a video of your finds let me know!

the most reliable spot for meg hunting I know of is Venice FL. I love diving down there. you can see where you're diving, there is no current, no submerged trees, and the teeth are super nice. I have never been on a dive where someone didn't find a meg. I've found a bunch of them. We just got back from down there a month ago (videos coming soon - I'm way behind on posting) and the conditions were amazing. If I lived anywhere besides SC it would be FL. thanks for watching my videos and good luck on your hunt!

i love hunting for stuff man! its all great.

these finds are from the archaic period

its a felony to dig on public land in FL too, that's why the private property angle is so necessary. You can't even pick them up legally in a river there. I like the way South Carolina does it - anything goes on private property just like in FL, but in rivers its legal to collect them as long as you have hobby diver license from the state and you report the find. Indiana sounds pretty harsh as far as artifacts go - If you dug for artifacts on your own property there, is that still a felony?

@@blackriverfossils No, here it is if you are digging to find/ aquire Indian artifacts it's a FELONY regardless if it's your property or someone else's property that has given you permission.

@@alanbrooke3237 I disagree with that policy. i couldn't live there.

@@blackriverfossils It's not right, but here I am. Love you videos please keep them coming!!

@@alanbrooke3237 will do, thanks for watching!

Thanks man! it was an amazing hunt. you've been finding some good stuff lately!

man that sucks someone did that to you, i'm sorry!

Meg teeth aren't hard to find. I collect these teeth and I have about a dozen meg teeth and a few hundred other teeth. If you search the right spot you can find a handful of teeth within a few hours. Megs were plentiful as a species, and each individual lost thousands of teeth in it's lifetime so there are plenty of them to go around. Most average size meg teeth in decent condition are worth a couple hundred dollars, but large teeth that are 5+ inches and in pristine condition are rare, and can go for several thousand dollars.

@@nutella334 I don't believe you

thanks man!

its amazing that native americans figured out how to do all that thousands of years ago through trial and error.

it was an awesome hunt! thanks for watching!

@blackriverfossils My father and i found some indigenous tools from australia. They are completely different to your findings. Grinding stones and axe heads. One of my axeheads looks like a fossilised lung. I picked it up because it looked like it had been attached to an aorta.. Many years later, I discovered it had been used as a tool. Have you ever seen fascinating underground city of opals? Coober Pedy! (pronounced cooba pee-dy)

@@ralsharp6013 congratulations on your finds they sound very interesting. I have heard of Coober Pedy and the beautiful opals from there. We watch a show called Outback Opal Hunters and they often show hunters and stones from that location. Beautiful stuff! Many years ago I traded some shark teeth for some boulder opal from Australia and it is gorgeous. It looks way better in person than it does on TV.

@@blackriverfossils I enjoyed reading every second of that..,Thank you! What a fantastic trade, opal for sharks teeth! Beaumaris and Waurn Ponds are the areas where I found my sharks teeth.. from

@@ralsharp6013 that's very cool! what species of shark teeth did you find?

thank you!

thanks for the info. appreciate you watching!

legal artifact hunts are on private land with permission. anything else is illegal in florida

@@blackriverfossils yeah okay, makes sense

if he invited us we would do that on one of our trips. i follow them in instagram. the teeth there have beautiful colors

thank you!

i agree with that but I'm not knowledgeable enough to know the difference yet. i did hear someone at the dig mention "atlatl point". thanks for watching and for your comment!

We do have fun and I have thought about surviving back then. I would not have made it very long because I am extremely near sighted. I couldn’t have seen anything to be able to hunt so I would have starved. Times were hard back then!

That’s like asking someone their favorite fishing spot 😂 it’ll never happen lol

none of these are worth that much. they have to be in spectacular condition, have super color, or be gigantic to be that valuable.

@@blackriverfossils oh OK, thanks for the comment 👍

thank you!

angustidens get really big. here are two videos where I found 4+ inchers. ruclips.net/video/jpIz-wh9twE/видео.html on land ruclips.net/video/x8oLdsUumkg/видео.html diving. i have more too if you want to see others lmk

@@blackriverfossils wow those are rlly big, would you say finding a big angustiden is better than finding a 4+ inch meg?

@@FortniteKid2854 without a doubt. angustidens are 10-15 million years older than megalodon and they didn't get as big. that line of sharks evolved greater size as time progressed. In a good year of collecting I might find fifty 4-inch megalodon teeth and I'd be lucky if I found one 4-inch angustidens. to put it in perspective, a 4-inch angy is probably closer to a 6-inch megalodon in rarity.

good to know you're keeping up with the content! i'm falling further behind if you can believe that!

it was in North Charleston

thank you!

if you have a boat, a lot of the islands in charleston harbor have teeth on the banks. there are spots just a few minutes from remleys point landing. people find them on folly beach too. closer to you there are creeks in summerville you can find them. you can go to sawmill branch next to where it crosses dorchester rd next to the pawn shop & kfc. go at low tide and look in the gravel pockets on the bottom. lots of creeks have them you just have to explore and look for gravel. good luck to yall!

i like those colors too. thanks for watching!

dug it myself

thank you!

love BV. we just got back from a week of diving there. glad you enjoyed it down there too

thanks for watching and for your comment!

the color comes from the sediment. this spot has mostly dark teeth because of all the black phosphate in the formation. other spots have different colors from different minerals in the soil. thanks for watching!

i agree, that blue color is very BV. i wish the serrations were like BV too lol

i'm just an amateur collector I don't have any for sale sorry. thanks for watching my video!

thank you!

it does. that powder blue color!