I've done similar with my niece when she was the same age talking about rocks falling from space and the different types of rocks laying around. Her mind was blown. It honestly made me really happy to see her reaction.
Fossils are super easy to find. Look up local streams and rivers. I'd bet 1 is registered for fossil hunting. Illinois has TONS of places to go. Just saying.
Really enjoying watching you take something that has been hidden away for hundreds of thousands or millions of years and bring it back into the light to create such showpieces.
It's so fascinating and It came out great. Such an art to know when to stop before you're glueing it back together. The next one is already impressive, can't wait to see what's in there. Thanks again. 😊
You do just a fantastic job showing how you clean up the specimens and I find it so interesting to see the reveal of the body. You are so through and have patience! Thank you for sharing. You and your Family stay healthy be safe!
Thanks SareJen! Glad you enjoyed it, there's quite a bit more going on at the bottom side, makes for an interesting prep. I hope you and your loved ones are also staying safe!
Beautiful job! I'm going to guess that working on a piece for 15 hours isn't quite as satisfying as watching it unfold in minutes. Thank you for taking the time to film and post the process.
So awesome. I like you explaining what is happening over the time lapse. Probably isn’t needed every time, I suppose. But it is nice for unique or different types of preps!
Hi Mamlambo! Theo Kellison said to check out your channel so here I am. I'm trying to catch up on all of your past videos now. I don't know a lot about fossils but I'm slowly learning from you and Theo. Such intricate work, I find it amazing really. I love rocks and rockhounding. I live in Montana, USA and I'm learning more and more watching my Montana Rock Stars and am branching out to other channels too. Thank you for what you do and taking us along on your adventures! Subscribed today!😊
Somehow this reminds me of a toy carving set from the 70s. It was an unknown solid plastic figurine encased in a softer putty, you "carved" the putty, revealing the figure, giving you a false sense of accomplishment. Can't remember the toy name, we got them at Christmas one year, guessing 1978 or so. Fun times!
Amazing! Can't wait until we can get a scribe, our little engraving tool can only do so much! Love that you're explaining your process too. That big one is going to be good fun to get out isn't it! Hope you and your family are keeping safe and well x
@@MamlamboFossils ihello Mamlambo! sure looks fun and exciting to see what will be the final product out of the rock after all that drilling. I posted some new short vids on my channel and if you watch any of them I hope you like. My goal is to educate the public a little bit at a time. Stay safe across the pond.
@@MamlamboFossils oh, also if you could make a video of drilling out the rock the skull you found in one of your vids that would be a real nice thing to see!!!!
If that crab only knew that 12 million years later, thousands of homo sapiens from all parts of the world would be looking at her. I've seen lots of fascinating stuff on youtube and this is tops. Nice work!
Wwoooww.. Amazing. This is what i love the most.... Seeing what's inside the rock is finally exposed. Great video, thank you for sharing👍👍 big fat thumbs up as always👍👍👍
My father had a really good crab collection it went National and anyway the crabs that we're really early look like, like shrimp it's just hard to believe the ones who were really really old and I have some whale vertebrae that are 38 million years old I found west of Port Angeles
Thanks mamlambo I really enjoy your videos of finding fossilized crabs along the tidal flats it brings back great memories!! If my father were alive he would be thrilled to see your videos !! 🦀🦞🦐
@@MamlamboFossils my father found a small whale skull that was turned over to the los Angeles museum I had 5 big concretions that had vertebrates with ribs attached.it was a small orca and the formation is 38 million years old according to the mr. Goedert of the Los Angeles Museum.and the vertebrae that I have it's in the Matrix and it's beautiful and that's the way I found it on the tidal flat near whiskey creek across from sooke Vancouver island on the straits of juan de fuca
Thanks Robert! That log makes for a good pedestal 😄 It felt really weird doing the commentary, I will have to practice it some more! Thanks for watching!
Whenever the family got a chance to visit Maine, we would always go to a place called lands end. I'd always collect sea shells but never thought about checking the rocks strewn about. I'm sure if I knew what I was looking for I might have found some nice fossils. I wouldn't have the skills to expose them without damaging them though. Thanks for the great video.
No rush obviously, but yeah. Love your videos by the way, I had no idea all the years I've walked along a beach there could be crabs in rocks. It never crossed my mind till your videos.
Reminds me of that scene from Pirates, where Calypso broke down into millions of crabs and another scene where the moving white rocks are actually crabs.
super prep vid mate and thank you for the narration as it helps us, more me , to understand just what happens during the prep :0) at the end that big concretion will take awhile but its totally worth it :0) an idea might be to show us your collection of prepped crabs, at 4.22 there are some but if you have more we would to see them mate :0) thanks again as the crab came out really nice :0)
no probs mate and i'm sure we would all like to see your collection :0) we are good but lockdown could be longer but to beat covid-19 we have to stay in :0)
Give them to junior schools and give a talk to the children on fossils, that would be a lesson they will remember for the rest of their lives, and you may just inspire a few to go on and become Archaeologists.
Thank you for a great video. Feel free to slow it a little, its so fascinating to see the work progress! Any chance you could add a little info about the age/background of the species? Looking forward to the next one!
I might do a longer version and link it up to this video for the people that want to see a 20min version 😄 It's tumidocarcinus giganteus crab. A deep water crab from warmer waters that was around in the Miocene era.
What a good use of lockdown time. Awesome, would love to have one to collect but I guess they are priceless. Hopefully next week we are back to level 3😌
@@MamlamboFossils I wouldn't have the expertise to locate or the tool to excavate one. I'm always fasinated by fossils but never came across any in the North Island other than the common seashells lol
Thanks, enjoying your channel. Just came across it. Nice to see a kiwi fossil hunter. I’ve taken the kids out a few times looking for crabs but didn’t have my eye in, I might know what to look for now. Cheers.
I want to find one now! I found a sweet little skull in some sandstone, to expose it I dissolved it in vinegar. It got a little damaged because I thought it was a crystal and kept trying to pop it out lol but it still looks amazing.
@@MamlamboFossils not %100 sure, it's as small as the tip of my thumb but looks like your standard dino skull :) Like the jurassic park logo. Found it on a gravel roof this year, my first fossil! I'm dissolving another but can't figure out what it is.
DUUUUUUUUUUUUDE! You nailed this! Absolutely nailed this video and just quietly, you can see by the views. A masterpiece brother. The video and the crab. I loved it. I get busy so I don’t get a chance to watch as much as used to or as much as I really would like to man. But you are an artist man. Beautiful work! I hadn’t checked in for a while but I did today and I honestly have to say I felt so frikin stoked at seeing how much your channel has grown. Keep doing what you’re doing, which you can tell is what you love. And that makes it all the more entertaining man. I’m just stoked hey! From your brother across the Tasman, Kia Ora my man! Kia Ora!!!!!!! Yewwwww!!!!
Oh crap I just realised, I’m not saying your others weren’t masterpieces, I just saw this and had to congratulate you. I’ve been a while between views and it just was rad to see. Just so rad. 🍻👊✨👌
Thanks so much! I totally get what you mean, I don't have as much time for watching videos, editing takes up so much time! Thanks for all your support and you have really been an inspiration, I hope my videos can one day have such a good feel as yours. Keep well that side of the Tasman, hopefully we get the trans-Tasman bubble soon so you can come visit!
Mamlambo Oh man seriously, the trans-Tasman bubble would be awesome! I actually read about that in the news last night. But dude I know what you mean, editing is the king of my “me” time haha! It’s so much fun but I do miss having time to just chill n watch. And man, your vids have YOUR feel to them! That’s the raddness right there!
It´s so interesting to see your prepping technics, our material is so much different to yours...the results of your work are very impressive! But for fossils sake be careful with actions like at 1:45 ! A couple of years ago i had an accident with a angle grinder slipping of the matrix and i nearly cut of the tip of my thumb...The matrix suddenly broke and the damage was done. It´s a nasty wound, hurting for month and month. Keep safe, greetings from the bavarian jurassic! :-)
There is no problem about angle grinders; In our quarrys and layers there is often no other way than to cut the fossil out of the matrix if you want to get them out in one piece. But it is dangerous, all the way! I had pieces of stone punching through my safety glasses while i was trying to extract a fossil. And it was very close to my eyes. This hobby has some serious possibilities to get hurt...Safety first! It´s no fun at all to search fossils with only three fingers per hand, isn´t it..? :-)
By the way, in some cases the angle grinder is not as good as well; It destabilizes the fossil matrix with its vibrations and the possibility of splittings while you try to prep is growing... Do you have any Stonemasons around? Sometimes a bigger saw is softer to a small concretion than a little one...
Another exciting reveal. The narration was very informative and the results spoke eloquently for themselves. Were you to inadvertently punch through the carapace would it be hollow inside, or filled with the same concretion material? I am guessing the latter. Quite a cast of crabs you have there, Mamlambo.
Hiya Will! Sometimes the legs can be hollow and that is a right pain to prep, usually if I punch a hole in it, I fill it up with some super glue and then try and find the bit that broke off and glue it back down. A day later it is usually pretty solid to work on.
