After partying like it was 1999 I woke up and drove strait down to the beach. The wind has been blowing all night with up to 50 mph gusts. As soon as we get to the beach my friend and I walk north. surched an area thoroughly. I found the whale skull fragment at that time. Then we walked 2 miles of beach and only found a contortus....Hahaa All the way at the end between some boulders where no one looked was a tiny meg. Nice, broken but it was all I had. I picked up the occasional vert fr...

Quick trip to the James. I found a few teeth, dog found a dead catfish to roll in. Good times.

Last week roving fossil extractor Brachiomyback was in my neighborhood so we got together for a little shark tooth hunting. This time of year is so great to hunt fossils weather-wise in South Carolina because its cool and the mosquitos are thinned from their summer swarms.

I only had a couple of hours to hunt but it was enough for us both to find some nice teeth.

Thanx B for the great hunt and sharing the goodies from some of your previou...

My work recently brought me to Charleston, South Carolina and I thought to myself, “Isn’t there another ‘famous’ city down there…. Hmmmm…. Summerville…lol”.  So I got in touch with Ditchweezil to see if he was up for a dig.  Luckily our schedules worked out so I arrived Friday, late-morning at a gas station he designated to meet at. 

After being “patted down” for any GPS devices, I put on the blindfold he brought, spun around ten times and...

Went collecting last week down at Calvert Cliffs hoping for some new material, but nada.  So spent a lot of time sifting with a couple different size screens to at least not go home empty handed.  Found a decent assortment of the tiny not so common teeth, a couple porpoise teeth, and a decent Meg with a couple dings, but overall pretty nice.  Still nice to get out and get some fresh air.

I added the ground shots I took...

In our little adventure up to MD we hit Brownies for a day but the tides and sand didnt work to well with us and we didnt find that much.  One of the spots that Obsessed1 took us to ended up being just about the same but my wife did find a nice posterior and a decent croc tooth.  Those were the finds of the day.  I hope we can get back up there when the conditions are better. 

Instead of standing outside of BestBuy from 10pm the night before until 6 am the next morning hoping to get a bargain on some electronics, I headed to the Potomac for some other bargain deals on fossils!  I drove past the BestBuy on my way and saw a billion cars - and they say the economy is bad - not here in Bowie, MD.  Anyhow, I had a free kitchen pass since my wife's parents were visiting - this meant I could stay most of the day!  Unfortuantely, the collect...

Today I went out to my girlfriend's grandparent’s house in Reedville. This works out great for me because it's not far from Westmoreland County and I usually make ...

This is a follow up to my earlier PA report, but although this was on the same fishing trip where most time was spent in PA, these fossils were from a NY Lake Erie tributary called 18 Mile Creek.  I don't think that I did all that bad considering that I didn't have a rock hammer or any packing material.

The black mako was in perfect shape. Sorry I don't have a better picture of it, I lost the tooth before I could make this post. Luckily I snapped a shot on my phone when I found it.  

The sand is finally starting to go away a little bit. Winds are great. Im lovin it about now.

The megs are (2 3/4)---(2 13/16)*---(1 7/8)---(1 9/16)---(1 1/4)

The makos are all around the 1.5 inch range.

Great big Hemis and theres alot of them right now.

Nothing to out of the ordinary.

Beaches (3)-(5)

It’s always good news when the boss gives you another project in Greensville, NC.  I had a couple hours of late afternoon screening at GMR this past Monday.  The fall scenery was beautiful, but all I can say is that I should have brought a rake.  The leaves were dropping and the Run definitely will need a good flushing before spring.

Found a unique looking fossil that looked similar to my only porpoise ear bone which I found previously at G...

       As I've traveled around the country, collecting for the museum, I'm always saddened when I come upon a site where thieves have taken fossils illegaly. These thefts are increasing in numbers and as a result many state, and federal, laws have been proposed to prohibit collecting fossils. As usual, the few have made it bad for the rest of us. A good example is from a site near where I live. Someone had dug into the ...

The day started when I got the urge...  I called a friend and asked how the tides were. He said they were fair, so I drove from Washington DC to Calvert cliffs after work.

When I finally arrived the beach looked good. Sand was still there but alot of gravel was showing up. I met a man on the beach who had some smaller teeth in his hand. I showed him the white Hemi I picked up as soon as I walked on the beach and then watched his eyes light up. After we part...

I hit the Potomac River this morning, and found the conditions there to be exactly what I expected- lousy!  The river is suffering from the same problems as the Bay- too much sand, no significant storms in a long time, and severe over-hunting.  I didn't find any really sweet shark teeth today, but I did find one fossil that made the trip worthwhile- a large complete Phyllodus plate.  It's in great condition with only a little wear, and measures well...

I took off work to find some solitude, peace, and a Paleocarcharodon.  I found the first two, but not a Paleocarcharodon.  I did find plenty of teeth and a tooth that I haven't found before, I think...  Plus, there were plenty of fossils.  The weather called for showers all day, but that just didn't happen.  It was actually rather pleasant.  The winds were NNE at 10-20 mph, which was perfect pushing water out of the river ...

This past Saturday I went out to an old ditch that I haven’t hunted at in years. This part of the ditch is mostly all Ashley marl exposures. I was lucky enough to find a good area that wasn’t too overgrown by vegetation. After clearing off some over burden I hit a really good pocket of angys. I found many shamers and a few nice ones!

Wednesday-Thursday last week I was soaking up the teeth from the low tide.(2) I was able to get a nice mako 2 1/8 .

 A pathological lower mako. Its the one with the serious hook on it. A nice cow, a couple ear bones.

A really weird bone. circular in shape. Very thin...No bone marrow visible on the underbelly...Odd.

The coolest...

My job recently brought me back to Nashville so I ended up checking my luggage which included my mini pick mattock.   I came prepared this time with the correct gear…. steel-toes boots, fingerless gloves, Carhartt jacket and the most important, my pick mattock.  That piece of equipment made my second trip all the difference in “extracting” my finds.

I had around three hours of picking away at the Leipers Formation.  It was great be...

I've been quite busy these last few months and I'm just now catching up on my trip reports; this one is from July.

    It was the 4th of July and I had just come back from my sisters soccer tournament (I'm a junior in high school) and received permission to go out fossil hunting by myself for the first time as I just got my license a few months prior.  I thought the cliffs and the river would be crowded being that...

Its that time of the year again. Or what I like to call the westerles...

The pictures represent 2 trips to the same beach. (3)

The first meg is a beautiful cream color, sharp, and relatively undamaged (1 7/8).  The trip also came with a couple nice makos. A sweet cow and a few hemi's.

The second trip yielded an awesom...

I found this one in the Yorktown and it’s a gem.

I found this Hexanchus a few inches apart from the first one. This is a rare tooth from Aurora and my first mostly complete tooth of this species. I'm thrilled to be able to add one to my collection.

The rain has been falling without end here in Summerville, South Carolina. I've been taking every opportunity to get out and hunt for shark teeth in my favorite dank holes. The yellow ditch is at the top of my list after a good drenching and the mosquitoes know it. As soon as I opened the door of my truck, I heard their buzzing descending on me like bombers. I was fully prepared for their onslaught with long sleeves and a dew rag under my hat to protect my neck. I began picking up handf...

I had fun this past weekend on Sat (Day 3) collecting in the mine.  I was really excited when I heard that the area had received over 3 inches of rain earlier in the week.  That meant the old footprints from the first weekend would be washed away, and new fossils exposed!  Well, I'm not so sure that was the end result.  I covered an aweful lot of territory, stopping frequently at what looked like really awesome Pungo hills which normally have loads of smal...