Fossil Hunting Road Trip Day 1 - Christchurch to Dunedin - huge shark tooth cluster

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I started my road trip down to the tip of the South Island by driving from Christchurch to Dunedin, stopping at a couple of places to look for a fossil or two of course!
The geology museum at Otago University is definitely worth visiting, it has some very informative displays and great examples of fossils from the area.
If you want to check out more footage from my university adventures, I have uploaded quite a few to my Patreon channel: / mamlambo
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13 фев 2024

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@brianjohnson3974 4 месяца назад

Only thing wrong with this video, it's too short!!!! Excellent content!! Thank you!!!!!

@MamlamboFossils 4 месяца назад

I'll upload day 2 soon!

@ayatoshad 4 месяца назад

Wow! I'm still on the West Coast but I'm so excited to visit the East Coast! Can't wait to see the Geology Museum and visit all the fossil beaches. Thank you for making me excited for even more travelling in NZ!

@MamlamboFossils 4 месяца назад

I love the West Coast as well!

@largent45 4 месяца назад

That was was fun! That beach was just absolutely covered in those shells! Wow! And that campus was gorgeous! What amazing displays! All those angustiden teeth in one plate is incredible! And that dolphin or small whale skull was amazing! But I was blown away at the size of that penguin! Holy moly was it a big boy! And you found that tiny crab too. Day one was just amazing! Can't wait for day two! Thanks Morne!

@MamlamboFossils 4 месяца назад

Ahhh thanks Lisa! Your comments always make me smile 😀

@tatwo_ 4 месяца назад

Wow. So much cool stuff to see in that museum.

@sandmaker 4 месяца назад

Wow, millions of shells, tiny crabs, giant septarian, a trip to a rock shop, petrified wood, and a great museum. To top NJ it all great views everywhere. Super trip.😊

@MarciaLeeful 4 месяца назад

That penguin was AMAZING!

@MamlamboFossils 4 месяца назад

It really was!

@leslyeschoenhuth1107 4 месяца назад

The sheer Size of some of the shells in the Museum was Astounding! Thanks for taking us where we could not go on our own!! Love the info & scenery!!

@MamlamboFossils 4 месяца назад

They are giant!!!

@linuskorff4074 4 месяца назад

Looking forward for day 2, really nice video. Loved the fossils in the museum as well.😲Hope it will be an awesome trip🍀

@MamlamboFossils 4 месяца назад

Thanks so much Linus!

@tylerwinsborrow 4 месяца назад

Haha, I could see you get scared when that sealion started running at ya. I would too.

@MamlamboFossils 4 месяца назад

Later on it chased me again and some tourists laughed so much!!

@JustinCase807 4 месяца назад

Silly tourists, they knowest not the danger that besets them :) @@MamlamboFossils

@KrisPSouls9258 4 месяца назад

Between the animals and the fossils I would be having so much fun. It looks like a wonderful place to go for sure.

@MamlamboFossils 4 месяца назад

Every corner has something new to explore!

@patifagan6774 4 месяца назад

Enjoyed this video

@catherine59226 4 месяца назад

What a glorious day to explore! 👍🏻❤️

@MamlamboFossils 4 месяца назад

It was pretty chilly and windy but I would love to go back there again

@nitawynn9538 4 месяца назад

I love road trips! Thanks.

@LeonaLinscott-cy6dz 4 месяца назад

And I think you're correct about the crab being from Pleistocene. That is the primary fossil level that is exposed here. Loving this vid. Just more proof that I MUST visit New Zealand as soon as I'm able. Thanks!

@MamlamboFossils 4 месяца назад

Thanks for the info!

@josephcormier5974 4 месяца назад

Very cool sir this is something I would never get to see it's much appreciated sir six stars brother

@MamlamboFossils 4 месяца назад

My pleasure Joseph!!

@LeonaLinscott-cy6dz 4 месяца назад

1:43 That small crab you found is about as big as the ones I find here on Galveston Island near Texas.

@FossilFinder12 4 месяца назад

Am staying for the full season!

@MamlamboFossils 4 месяца назад

Yay!!!

@tombarossavillage971 4 месяца назад

Marvellous well done mate

@MamlamboFossils 4 месяца назад

Thanks!!

@jeannettefrye5086 4 месяца назад

Awesome!! Just like you,👍👍😉💖⭐

@brutebison8387 4 месяца назад

That's so cool cant wait for you to find some more cool stuff!

@MamlamboFossils 4 месяца назад

Thanks for coming along!

@johnbruce2868 4 месяца назад

Those teeth are very reminiscent of Otodus obliquus. I know they're not, but they're still very reminiscent, nevertheless. I must go to Dunedin museum if I'm ever able to visit the rellies in NZ. It still looks like a proper museum.

@MamlamboFossils 4 месяца назад

Those teeth are really impressive! The geology dept museum is in a bit of a tough spot, funding has been cut and many staff were let go.

@joesmith-es1zy 2 месяца назад

The Masonic Hotel is a pretty nice example of Art Deco architecture.

@niniengineering 4 месяца назад

A ♥️ for the sea lion.

@MamlamboFossils 4 месяца назад

Very cute sea lion, though he did give me a fright 😀

@LeonaLinscott-cy6dz 4 месяца назад

Soooo many turret shells... I'll take 'em!!! I'll take ALL of them!!! 😄😁😆😅🤣

@MamlamboFossils 4 месяца назад

There were sooo many!

@samhooks3699 4 месяца назад

Hello from the other Christchurch!! Love finding fossils here too

@MamlamboFossils 4 месяца назад

Nice!! I would love to see some photos of them!

@ccccarriemchardy9216 4 месяца назад

Love a good adventure!.

@rymkervic123456 4 месяца назад

Come to the West Coast - go on, we don't bite. Seas are amazing.... each and every tide a powerhouse.

@MamlamboFossils 4 месяца назад

I love the West Coast! I don't go there often enough

@gattycroc8073 4 месяца назад

loved the fossil of the giant penguin near the end of the video.

@MamlamboFossils 4 месяца назад

It's soooo big!!

@gattycroc8073 4 месяца назад

@@MamlamboFossils you know penguins started to evolve to get big soon after the KPG extinction. and I know it's of Kairuku which lived during the Oligocene but cool to know how creatures evolved after the non-avian dinosaurs and other creatures died out.

@roberts5539 Час назад

note for first time visitors to NZ, the giant salmon in Rakaia 00:19 is not a real salmon.

@user-ik9ll9mk2r 4 месяца назад

I am amazed that tiny fossil crabs can be found right on the beach. Would you need different tools to prep the really small crabs?

@MamlamboFossils 4 месяца назад

I think I would be find with my small Micro Jack air scribe

@mynameIan 4 месяца назад

Ive done that drive. Had some carrot cake in Dunedin.

@MamlamboFossils 4 месяца назад

Nice! It's a beautiful drive once you get past that long straight bit near Ashburton

@billy3800 4 месяца назад

👍

@PaleoDutch 4 месяца назад

New Zealand looks really stunning! Cant wait for your next video.

@MamlamboFossils 4 месяца назад

It's a beautiful place!

@Doxymeister 4 месяца назад

😍❣👍

@Smegzor 4 месяца назад

My comment about the crab vanished. I was told the fossils on that beach are 200,000 years old and are called false fossils due to their age. I have an excellent specimen that I think I have shown you last time you were in Oamaru but RU-vid didn't like me linking photos of it here. Had you walked another 500 metres you would have encountered massive drifts of fossils literally covering the beach. Last time I was there they were over half a metre deep.

@marionmarshall7380 4 месяца назад

So gonna have to visit someday! You’d show a wayward Yank about, right?

@MamlamboFossils 4 месяца назад

haha of course!

@Smegzor 4 месяца назад

Pity you didn't tell the Otago club you were coming down here. You could have visited a few collections on the way through Dunedin. I'd have given you some rocks and fossils.

@MamlamboFossils 4 месяца назад

There's always next time! This was a quick trip

@jamesjoyce4356 4 месяца назад

wow i can’t believe you went to rakaia, did you also go to a small town called methven?

@MamlamboFossils 4 месяца назад

I've been to Methven often, don't they have hot pools now? I'm sure I had a dip there

@jamesjoyce4356 4 месяца назад

@@MamlamboFossils wow that’s cool, i just went to raking and tried to predict where you took the photo. (hopefully that doesn’t sound weird)

@MamlamboFossils 4 месяца назад

@@jamesjoyce4356 I was just across the road :)

@jamesjoyce4356 4 месяца назад

@@MamlamboFossils by the cafe?

@MamlamboFossils 4 месяца назад

@@jamesjoyce4356 yeah, just across the road I think

@RapiersSting 4 месяца назад

awwe a huge water doggo!!!

@MamlamboFossils 4 месяца назад

lol and he chased me like 10 min later, I was so far away as well!

@RapiersSting 4 месяца назад

@@MamlamboFossils he either wanted to play fetch or he was hungry! lmao

@twistdpossum 4 месяца назад

Can you recommended a place to have your 3d models printed I'm in ChCh and am trying to find my own but wish to keep it natural if I do find my own and would like a model to compare if that makes sense

@MamlamboFossils 4 месяца назад

I know you can get things printed at the Christchurch library, it will be the cheapest I think