Super fun video to put together! I can't wait to make more episodes in this series! If you have any questions, let me hear them below and I will try to get to them all :)
Animantarx ramaljonesi Carpenter, Kirkland, Burge, Bird, 1999 Classification: Nodosauridae Locomotion: quadruped Diet: herbivor German name: living fortress Animantarx was the first dinosaur to be discovered solely by technology, using light, radioactive radiation from the bones. Animantarx belonged to the genus of the Upper Cretaceous period in western North America. Like other nodosaurs, it was a slow-moving herbivore with heavily armored skin, but its tail did not have the tail club that is typical of the Ankylosaurs. The skull was about 25 cm, the animal was almost 3 meters long. The generic name is made up of the Latin words animatus
I’ve always wanted to have my fossils tested and you just saved me the time! I had a feeling they would register trace amounts of radiation. Thank you for the informative and interesting content.
Thank you for the support! I will be trying to post more of these educationally slanted videos related to fossils. If you haven't already make sure to subscribe to see more. Otherwise, thanks again!
The University of Florida paleontology lab did a study on the radioactive levels on their vertebrate fossils in relationship to radon level emissions for EPA standards. The hottest fossil tested was a shark tooth found in Venice Florida. Go figure. By far most specimens recorded were at very low levels of radiation. Interesting video.
I used to live in Elliot Lake, Ontario. It's a former uranium town so everywhere you dig there's Radon. Radon is naturally occurring in the soil. Every home built there has a vent system running from under the basement floor to outside. So, I'm not surprised that some fossils would contain some radioactive material. Not enough to really hurt anyone. But, your education is very useful.
Crazy to see that uranium ore spike that Geiger counter!! Very interesting never thought shark teeth would be radioactive.. I love your videos man I'm learning so much from just watching 4 videos! The furgerite one is really cool too :))
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It's nice to see a "kid" (yeah, I'm old...lol) do something he loves and is taking it to another level by teaching the rest of us... Thank you for that:-).... I hope you inspire other kids!!
I bought a Geiger counter yesterday and thought maybe it didn't really work since the level hardly changed as I moved around my house. Then I went over my megalodon tooth and it lit up. Trying to figure out if it's a hazard in my home. Stumbled across your video and I really enjoyed it.
...blacklight...?... ...this is the only site known to be showing the use of diverse technological tools to examine fossils... ...wish archaeologist would do the same for ancient sites...
There was a research paper made by paleontologists suggesting that a meteor crashed into Florida in the glades where Broward county is today. Wonder if this would be the lingering cause for this with the iridium traces.
All I can say is WOW!! First time watching your channel.I learned so much watching you find those remarkable fossils. Keep it up! I was concerned about you being alone is such a remote area though. Guess you bring out the grandmother in me. You and some of our fellow explorers give me hope that your generation are not all idiots. (thinking woke)
What about the thousands of little black shark teeth, petrified wood and small fossils (vertebrae, sting ray barbs, etc...) that I've picked up on the beach along NE Florida over the years? They're all stored in a box on my shelf. My kids handle them all the time. Should I toss them?
Digging Science , so that’s good because I have several black ones from the ocean. A meg and a Benedeni. They stay in a glass case. I see them occasionally as necklaces on EBay, maybe not the best idea.
Well, f***! I WEAR one of the damned things on my chest all the time! Location? N.C. I gave another to a girlfriend...now I feel like I just gave her VD. Except you can cure that.
In a broad sense of the word, the whole electromagnetic spectrum, including light, is electromagnetic radiation, and there are other kinds of things called radiation, but a lot of that stuff doesn't have the effects regular people associate with "radiation", which consists of a few subsets of the scientific classification that have ionizing effects harmful to living things and sensitive electronics. Some kinds of decay and fission can release neutron radiation. That's generally a nuclear reactor thing, though. Radioactive decay also produces neutrinos, but those are incredibly hard to detect. Neutrinos can pass through the whole planet as if it wasn't even there. It takes huge detectors to find just *a few* neutrinos, when there are *billions* passing through you all the time. There's also stuff like cosmic rays, which are particles with far more energy, but as the name says, those come from space, and are released by things from supernovas up to quasars. Some types of particle accelerators produce particles like this, but they can't match the energies of the most extreme cosmic rays, which can be orders of magnitude higher. Particles with energy that high are pretty rare, though, so physicists will keep needing bigger, more powerful accelerators to continue pushing the boundaries of our knowledge.
You are a natural teacher and you make learning interesting and fun, Digging Science. I sure enjoyed this video ( I live in Georgia ) and was surprised how radioactive the Meg teeth were. Thanks for the discussion at the end of the video also. 👏👏👏
@@DiggingScience I've been a subscriber for a while now. I've retired in the Charlie Creek/Peace River area and have given into the fossil hunting addiction. Keep coming back this way and I'll meet you one day!
So the phosphates must be radioactive as well. I worked at PCS Phosphates in North Carolina for a few weeks. They crush and destroy megalodon teeth every day. I saw piles of destroyed whale vertebrae. It was interesting. *At 13:55 you mentioned the reason I was at PCS. We worked in the acid unit.
