Fossil hunter finds potential fossil skull (bonus mailbag) 

Please give Grand Treasure Bay a follow, let's see if we can get him past 1000! ru-vid.com/show-UC5FlfDj9Ne2C5RWY5KL5h0Q

Your content is fantastic-no need to apologize for factors out of your control (wind, neighborhood dogs, or otherwise). ☺️ Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!

As a geology student we would always carry around a laminated Grain Size Indicator to help easily correctly identify...grain sizes - Mudstone is more a of a category which can be split into Siltstone and Claystone, which claystone being the finest (grains are unidentifiable with hand lens, but siltstone can only just be detected). Also another brilliant way geologists use to detect difference in grain size is taste. We can easily distinguish the difference between clays and silts with out tongue (we just love rocks that much) :D

Your vids always cheer me up. You are one of the few people who kept me into fossils over the past few years. Amazing finds btw! Maybe it’s a penguin lol.

I really hope that is a dolphin skull! What an amazing find that would be! So glad you enjoyed the old rocks haha. You were one of my early influences to make more quality content in the beginning of my RU-vid journey. What were the birds in the opening part of the video? They remind me a bit of the Piping Plover we have here in Michigan. Also thank you for the shout-out!

Way back when I had the pleasure of knowing an elderly rockhound couple. She had a wonderful collection of calcite seashells. Yep, solid calcite! So you might want to keep that in mind when you see JUST calcite in a concretion. Thank you for taking us along on your adventures!

Loved the scenery & the sound of the ocean!! Looks like such a lovely day! Hope you find something awesome! ♥️

I find myself watching at your content mesmerized and waiting to see what you found. You have a great skill of interpreting and recognizing the parts. Great work!

What a fun time! The mystery continues. Keep the goodness coming. Be happy, safe and stay healthy 😷⚒

Can't wait to see you extract that 3D-printed dolphin skull which you so obviously encased in cement, lol! BTW, the other half of that empty deposit on the beach was behind it.

Also. The secret project is well worth the Patreon commitment.

I would love to see a video of you polishing the large Petoskey stone, as well as prepping the "skull" rock. You're so amazing at what you do & I learn so much from you. Love that petrified wood slab too! 👍❤️

Please please please, make a time lapse video prepping the “possible skull”

At 3.32 in the video is an empty “rock”but the other half is behind it and it looks like the top of a crab,am I right in thinking that’s what it could be.

Hahaha, I can't believe that people think you fake this. I worked in the concrete industry for 12 years, I am technically trained in concrete (sad but true), when you extract fossils, crabs etc you can tell (well I can at least), that is not concrete or any other cemetitious type product. Doesn't even look like any cemetitious type product. The other thing is you can see how hard the material is. No concrete or any other cemetitious product can be made anywhere near as hard as stone. Not even remotely close. Oh dear. Loved the vid brother, take care man.

Awesome stuff as always! 🤘

Loved this! Your a rock hounds dream.cheers from Ontario!

Can't wait to see what's in the rock! Keep up the good work!

Nice treasures you found and received! Wouldn't mind finding chunks of petrified wood on my doorstep! Can't wait to see what that concretion is hiding too. Thank you for sharing!!

The petowsky is stunning - what good fellow fossil hunters you know - glad for you

Always a pleasure

HI! Thanks so much for the walk by the Sea, Waves and Sights of Treasures. Crabs first come to mind when pointing to those smooth round to oval stones. lol maybe my inner desire showing. Waiting to see what's in this new find. Cheers!

Very intriguing find! Thank you for the video.

Oh my!! That big carboniferous age "coral", looks like it has some surprises, hidden just beneath the matrix! Can't wait to see It's full potential!

Hello from Gaylord, Michigan, about 30 miles from Petoskey. ! It is pronounced Pe-tah-ski. I didnt expect to see Petoskey stones when I clicked on your video.

It looks promising, whatever it is!

I have learned much from your videos. Thank you for producing them. I have recently found a meter round mudstone ball with a layer below that was another sedimentary rock. The mudstone had dried quickly in the sun and cracked all over. I contemplated doing some destructive exposing to see what was inside,it was so cool I decided to leave it. Well someone was watching me apparently and they broke it by smashing it with a large rock. There's half a turtle shell and a tooth that are split in two that I can see. Now I need to remove it before it's destroyed more. I'm just getting started with fossils and lack the experience to get the concreation into transportable pieces. Is there a way to break it at particular points as to not ruin more? Or is it a matter of putting the pieces back together with epoxy? I have cold steel chisels but I feel that will be a very long process as the two large pieces are 3/4 the mass split in two.

@Mamlambo Fossils 13:25 there are a few of us here in the states that have dubbed this stone “galaxy stone” because it looks like the galaxy when it is cut. 🥰

Thank you

Can’t wait to see what you found! Stay safe!

I love watching you videos there interesting and you find such amazing fossil

Love your channel.

I cant wait for you to prep it

Michigan native here, its pronounced peh-TAH-ski

Amazing! I can't tell there’s fossils inside even if you put the stone right under my nose.

I live in Michigan! There’s a city called petosky. I have yet to go there. It’s on my “to do” list though!. Oh just realized these are from Michigan 😂. I went ahead and followed Grand treasure Bay.

It'll be cool to see whats inside. An never listen to the fools of this world they like to speak a lot, Cement ! lol you know what your doing so just laugh at their stupidity & carry on doing what you do brother.

So , was that a skull ? And how did it turned out?? I was searching to see an update on that one , but couldn’t find one,please do one , cuz I can’t think of nothing else now , 😄😳😳☺️! Amazing things you do , it looks so much fun , and makes me wander if I can find any fossils by the black see Russia. Maybe you could enlighten me about that ?😊 With respect , your fan .

Question: For the calcite nodules, would it have been a jellyfish cavity? I've always wondered what the shape would be.

Those from Michigan rocks oh never mind different dude

So is consolidant like a glue that holds the bone together while you cleaning it up?

잔잔한데 엄청 흥미로워요. 재미있게 잘 봤어요. :)

That's really neat! I hope it's a skull. Those rock from GTB are amazing. I wonder, have you got an Oklahoma Rose?

The still of the skull , 9:19, looks like a foramen Magnum ,the hole at the back of the skull, maybe

Prehistoric Punisher!

So General Grievous ultimately ended up on Earth?

Whoever accused you of the concrete thing. They are the ones that have some concrete between the ears 👂.

Does anyone else see the shape of the first punisher skull in that thumbnail image?

Hi, have ever seen a channel called Mud Fóssil University? If so, do you have any opinion about their theories ?

I’m in Canada so it might be a foolish question, but where do you buy the consolidant from?

What is the tool you are using to clean up the fossils?

Was it a skull? did you make a video? link?

The wood piece looks like art. Weird how you can see things in the pattern . I see a women on a horse. With tree or some greenery 😊

Look like a slice of chocolate cake 🎂 nice finds.

Looks like dark rye bread! Fossilized bread! Who knew?

What island are you on ? North or south I wish we had something like this in OZ

You planted those crabs and took hours and hours and hours to chisel them out delicately with pneumatic chisel

What did it turn out as ?

have you ever seen fossilized worm tracks?

You should look up " mudfossil university " on you tube . Roger Spurr is king of the mud fossils

The cone fossil looks more like a Pararucaria.

I can't find the update ^^*

Maybe the concretion fossils fool fools into imagining you actually manufacture fossils.

R we ever going to see you open one?🐎🌻✌️

Ferget The MILLIONS!!

Sorry on any down votes. RU-vid acting up

Finger tip is what it could be

Dolphin?

Your pronunciation of a Petoskey stone is very close. It's pronounced peh-TOSS-key. For those that don't know they're only found on the Michigan peninsula in the United States.

how can you tell if its a bone and not just a mineral?

We need to join to see you open one?🐎🌻✌️

C👀l

You should really look into interstition.

What solvent do you use for your paraloid and what concentration? I use ratio of 1:10 by weight with Acetone and have had good luck as a clear coat on contemporary skulls to prevent moisture cracking (taxidermy small game animals mostly). I would like to use it as a glue for securing teeth and repairing damaged bones, but I find that large bubbles form at much higher concentrations (2:10 or 3:10) when the solution is too viscous. The acetone is so harsh as well. I wear a respirator of course, but I wonder if there is a friendlier solvent that works just as well. What is your experience using it? Thanks much!

its will be fun that you try it putting a crab in cement and wait 1 years i'm sure it will smell like hell lol

I was hoping you'd unwrap a cheeseburger I'm starving 🍔 Enjoyed your video thanks

From the open shot I thought dolphin excellent video great content thank you sir five stars