Mastodon tusk and skull

Guest 1551 · Jun 9, 2020

Short video today, but had a killer hunt and found some of my favorite fossils XD

Digger RJ · Jun 9, 2020

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

PaleoPrincess · Jun 9, 2020

That’s so cool! Where did you find them?

pepperj · Jun 9, 2020

PaleoPrincess said:
That’s so cool! Where did you find them?

I'm guessing in FL, on a water system.

pepperj · Jun 9, 2020

Nice hunt, congrats.

A2coins · Jun 9, 2020

Find all of it and put it in your living room lol thats really cool thanks for sharing it amazing find.....Tommy

richtink · Jun 9, 2020

Man that is a cool find. I don't know how you stay so calm about it.

Waterhead · Jun 9, 2020

My second passion besides civil war and colonial relic hunting is fossils.

Absolutely not trying to rob your thread but I thought that it would be appropriate to post my finds in here with your water finds. Both teeth were found by me diving for fossils here in Virginia.

I get the Megalodon sharks tooth but I'm not sure of the long tooth. Do you have any idea what critter this belonged to; whale, porpoise? I laughed when my friend told me it was a petrified sweet potato.

I can only imagine the side of this shark.

Guest 1551 · Jun 9, 2020

Waterhead said:
My second passion besides civil war and colonial relic hunting is fossils.

Absolutely not trying to rob your thread but I thought that it would be appropriate to post my finds in here with your water finds. Both teeth were found by me diving for fossils here in Virginia.

I get the Megalodon sharks tooth but I'm not sure of the long tooth. Do you have any idea what critter this belonged to; whale, porpoise? I laughed when my friend told me it was a petrified sweet potato.

I can only imagine the side of this shark.

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Hey man! Yep, definitely a whale tooth

In great shape too!

Guest 1551 · Jun 9, 2020

PaleoPrincess said:
That’s so cool! Where did you find them?

pepperj said:
I'm guessing in FL, on a water system.

Indeed! It was in a Florida river

ToddsPoint · Jun 10, 2020

So is the whale tooth still ivory or has it turned to a "rock"? Gary

Waterhead · Jun 10, 2020

No, its turned to stone.

There is a small tad of so-called ivory left at the tip but very little.

I have been lucky enough to have found 5 of these whale teeth diving but they're hard to come by here.

These teeth have the propensity to start cracking and breaking a part after several years. So, after they're completely dry, I fill the hollow root canal with Elmer's Wood Glue so they remain intact.