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📹 THE BEST Method to Find Shark Teeth on the Beach!! (Professionally Tested & Approved!)
Paleontologist Ashby Gale tests four different techniques to help you find shark teeth on the beach. You’ll be a pro after watching …
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Several years ago I was In Charleston and went to this island, we had to go at a certain time and by boat, but I was fascinated at what the sea left behind for our group to discover. I have been completely infatuated with fossils, dinosaurs and shark teeth since I was a little kid. This island and finding those incredible teeth and giant shells is still one of my most favorite times I have ever had. Love your website!!
I got a megalodon tooth as large as my hand that was found in my yard when we were building a house in West Ashley, nowhere near the beach or the ocean. Of course, millions of years ago it was probably all ocean. I wasn’t looking to sell it but I was still kind of surprised and disappointed that they sell for no more than $100 usually. You’d think something that came from a shark the size of a city bus and was millions of years old would be of incredible value, but alas I guess there are a LOT of them out there.
I live in the U.K and came across your vid. I really enjoyed it and I have subscribed. I am going on vacation to Lyme Regis in the U.K it is known as the jurassic coast. I’m really excited to be going on a fossil hunt there. It does have it’s laws set in place and you are not allowed to take anything home with you from the bed rock. There are giant ammonite fossils to see there but obviously you can’t take them. I am sooo excited to be going on this trip as I usually visit local areas like Wales and Devon as we have holiday homes. I also go on cruises alot and planes but I can honestly say that this fossil hunt excites me even more than those. I can’t wait. I so want to find shark teeth 😊. Your article was both educating and enjoyable to watch. Thank you.
Just moved to South Carolina from Alaska. We don’t even have lines on the road let alone laws on fossil hunting. Just kidding. I appreciate you reminding me to check the local rules. I would never have thought it would be wrong to use a sifter in the water. Thanks for the great article you got a new subscriber.
Hi Ashby! I loved the article. I’ve been obsessed with shark teeth hunting ever since I found my first hemipristis tooth 2018 at Caspersen beach in FL. I sadly do not live or come from the US so I don’t have the chance of finding teeth where I’m from. I am now once again in Florida and I returned to Caspersen beach. Sadly the beach was so crowded by people and finding teeth was more difficult then a couple years ago. Locals from Venice also told me that the likelihood of finding bigger teeth on Caspersen has decreased a lot since a couple years ago. I was wondering if you know any good beaches on the west coast of Florida to find shark teeth on? It’s ok if you don’t answer.
Back in the day we used to hit spots where dredge was used as landfill after every rain. We could pick up more fossils than we could carry every time. This was in various locations near Summerville and Ladson, about a half century ago. It was a bad day when we didn’t find two or three very large megladon teeth 4-6 inches, whale vertebra, as well as shark vertebra disks, tons of fossil shells or various kinds and a few crustaceans. We even found a few rostral nodes and fossilized cartilage. If we’d been into screening then we could have filled trucks full.
Charleston native here, where are you finding these teeth?! Like what area? I’ve found several small ones while on the beach (IOP) with my kids but now that my kids are older they love to hunt and would love to have luck like this! We’ve had friends find lots but always have to find locations by boat
I have found that a strip of sand on the beach with no shells and other stuff is not going to have shells buried in the sand. The spot on the beach is dictated by a spot in the water where the bottom prohibits things getting to shore. Also have found that to each side of these empty spots will hold more shells than just another stretch of beach. The bottom topography will spread the shells and other stuff to each side of this rise in the bottom. I look for them when I got hunting…they rarely disappoint.
I found numerous sharks teeth while looking in drainage ditches in goose creek, but I have not spotted any at the beaches like Folly or Isle of Palms. Unfortunately I don’t have the fossils any more because my ex husband thought he could give them away without telling me or our kids who had done all the work finding them. The drainage ditches have eroded and filled in a little and it’s hard to find anything now. I would love to take my grandkids out to find some fossils for themselves. are there any local beaches I could take my grandkids to that they could find something? I just found your website and subscribed. I love that you are local.
I was listening to you and then suddenly the music started blaring and was awful. Couldn’t finish. I wanted to hear you not the music. The best tip is to get there early, wherever you go. We would always do the water line first then the high tide mark, and called it “gum hunting” since that was usually the part of the tooth that was exposed. As for walking, or digging.. that depends on where and when you go. In the 80s and 90s before they restored the beach in Venice, we found tons of teeth by always going left down the beach, about mid way between the pavilion and where the beach ended where that big pipe emptied into the Gulf. The teeth (mostly sand tiger ones) were at the high tide mark, about 1.5 feet down. I never found any by just walking or even by sifting. To the contrary, at Stratford Hall on the northern neck in Virginia, we found the best teeth by gum hunting and at the water line; never by digging or even sifting. I doubt if either place is any good anymore. I never found teeth in Venice after they first restored the beach. At Stratford Hall they closed the beach going to the right and I don’t think you can even drive to the mill there anymore. In Maryland we found the best beach to be Brownie’s Beach.
The most important part about finding sharks teeth is something you completely failed to mention. Find a desolate beach or island where there are no people. The sand you are looking in has no footprints and when you raise the camera there are no people for miles. No one is going to pick up large teeth just lying all over the beach unless no else has been there for awhile. Sure you can find tiny teeth on any beach but those large ones are very rare. I hope you don’t seed the beach in order to sell books.