This is a pencil drill. It's obvious how it got the name. Probably used for drilling through bone, shell, or wood.

This is an often overlooked artifact that was used to score and remove long pieces of bone for the manufacture of pins, needles, etc. The complete bone was deeply scored along two parallel lines and the center piece was popped out and shaped into the desired tool. It may have also been used as a perforator.

Here is a decent arrowhead I found years ago in the Yakima area of Washington. It's hard to believe there's a desert that far north, but there are even scorpions there.

This is a huge example of what people call a "poison sack" from a jumbo ray. I found this in N. Carolina.

This is my favorite true arrowhead. I found it near Yakima, Washington while hiking around the desert with a M-60 machine gun and a short-range missile on my back. I also had around 50 pounds of petrified wood in my ruck sack. I was really looking forward to getting in that Blackhawk helicopter.

This is probably the nicest tool core that I have found. Check out that color.

I found this one in Kentucky while looking for Paleozoic corals and geodes. It was getting late and I decided to turn around at a certain gravel bar. When I did a U-turn at the gravel bar I looked down and there it was!

I found this years ago in the Potomac River. It's a beast!

I found this earlier this year while looking for teeth. This is a typical late axe. Most people miss these.

I found this along a local river while tooth hunting earlier this year. This is a good example of a typical late axe. Many people would never realize this was an axe. There were two other people collecting and neither one of them noticed it.

I found this along a local river while tooth hunting earlier this year. This is a good example of a typical late axe. Many people would never realize this was an axe. There were two other people collecting and neither one of them noticed it.

Two big blades from two different states. I found the white quartz knife in North Carolina and the grey quartzite Came from Maryland. 

I found this nice grooved axe in N. Carolina. a couple of years ago. It has a nice polish and even though very little was showing, the shine gave it away.

I didn't really go anywhere to do this post except my fossil room, but a recent forum post inspired me to go hunting for juvenile Galeocerdo contortus teeth.

Most shark tooth hunters eventually come across these extinct tiger shark teeth. They are very common in Oligocene and Miocene sediments and are found in many locations worldwide. It is thought that a tiger sha...

Another nice tooth. Pic was taken with a different crappy camera. Both tooth and camera are gone. This tooth was very thick and not fully serrated.

1/2 Inch bramble shark tooth

A beautiful LC MEg tooth. T$ snapped the ground shot for me. There is some feeding damage on the blade, but still a keeper.

A re-worked, but complete Hubble shaped tooth from GMR.

The Aurora Fossil Museum Friends weekend hunt #2 was set for March 10^th.  DW, T$ and myself were able to secure the same day, and a trip to PCS was set. Thanks to PCS and the AFM for the opportunity to collect fossils in such a rich locale.

I recently broke down and bought a kayak for the sole purpose of harvesting 6" Megs from various regions of the bay and Potomac river.  This was going to be my first trip to a completely new area along the bay for me, and any time you get to hunt a new place its exciting.  Knowing that a 6" Meg was probably not in the forcast, I was just hoping to have a good morning and not encounter as many people as I do at my normal haunt.  A good d...

Here are some of my best finds for the past few trips into the mine.  Each day has someone finding a nice tooth, but not me.  The odds are against you right now with 50 collectors and 1 or 2 big megs finding their way to the bus.  I have had good luck with "odd" fossils and my first land parotodus.  I am slowly putting together my prey display with a whale "hand".

I was really excited about this coming trip. I always look forward to taking road trips with da f0ssZ and DW because it’s always a GREAT time! We arrived at GMR right before sun down and quickly began sifting in the creek. I didn’t find anything post worthy this trip ...

Took a trip to the Myrtle Beach area to escape from work a while, and had to do some toothing.  We hit the beach every morning finding several teeth waiting for us.  Between my wife and I, i bet we took about 500 teeth or so in about a week.  The best finds were some nice sand tigers, a nice tiger shark, and on the last day i was blessed by the fossil gods with 3 great whites, 1 inch to 1in 1/4.   We don't have teeth like these in texas.&...

This is a little gem of a tooth that is a very good example of the species Isurus retroflexus. Its tough to see from the photo, but the blade is flattened, which is one of the keys to differentiating this species from Isurus desori, another Oligocene mako shark that has very similar looking teeth.

The thing I love most about this tooth is the shape. This is a lateral tooth so its very curved, almost like a serrated benedeni (wouldn't it be cool to find something like that!). Excellent overall condition.