Pathologically Lucky 

thanks I'm glad you liked the extra visuals! I'm really happy with how that turned out and its so much better than just more footage of me digging!

Thanks I appreciate that!

I'm glad to hear you say that because sometimes I wonder if people get sick of seeing the same ol' black and grey teeth? I know I can't control what color they are when they come out of the ground, but for a while everything I was finding was lighter colored and some people really liked those. thank you for your comment and for watching!

thank you for watching!

thank you so much!

i really appreciate that! I wish I could post more but there just aren't enough hours in the day. I'll do my best to keep the videos coming.

good luck on your hunt next week!

I'll be scouting. Gonna need it. @@blackriverfossils

thank you!

IDK how she gets so lucky with those killer pathos. I'm just happy to get one too, although it wasn't even close to as cool as hers!

thank you so much!

that sounds like a killer find man! you could send me a pic, i would share it on an upcoming video. my email is ditchweezil at black river fossils dot org

Thanks man! I'll keep sprinkling those in when they are relevant. I'll keep a lookout for more dagger megs too!

great question man, thanks!

thank you!

I want to know this too!

good question. I let all my teeth air dry for a day or two before I wash them. When they come out of the ground, sometimes the roots are soft and that's the time when they could easily fall apart. once they are dry they are usually solid enough to wash. then I let them dry again before I evaluate them further. if I see that the roots have any fresh cracks or parts that are crumbling, I apply a mixture of butvar and acetone or polyvinylacetate (pva) and acetone to harden them and usually that's all it takes. I usually never have to do anything with the enamel because it is so hard to begin with, it doesn't crack any more. i have seen some cases where the enamel is separating from the tooth in a few places, and then I carefully remove any dirt or sand that's stuck in there and then use super glue to secure it. for the most part, teeth from this spot have been pretty solid so I haven't had to do anything extra to preserve them. Its usually the lighter colored teeth that need some extra TLC.

@@tanyanosek1938 see my reply to the original question.

@@blackriverfossils Thank you, for great explanation!

its near charleston south carolina.

@@blackriverfossils any specific location?

i hadn't actually considered that, but now that I think about it, its not that far from reality in some spots. Think about the Florida shell pits where there were skeletons and bones everywhere. I have seen photos of that and wished that I could have seen it in person. I got lucky enough to participate in the Camelot digs at the Giant Cement quarry in Harleyville SC around 20 years ago and it was like that. there were literally bones in piles in the sand. We would scrape away sand with trowels, thinking we got to the edge of the skeleton, only to find more bones right there. In one place there was a giant sloth pelvis as wide as the hood of a car, and inside it were the bones of camels, horses, lynx, and more. While excavating it, there were shark teeth scattered around the base. I sat on a dirt mound for hours, carefully exposing bone after bone inside that jumble. Then when we excavated where I saw, there was the skull of a saber cat. all of this was inside an area no bigger than about 10 feet by 10 feet. Although not as spectacular as the Camelot site, the Sloth Party site has a whole lot of bones too. Most of them are broken up but there are a lot of them. I don't show how many bones we dig up, but I do try to put a few in each video just to show that they are there. But we find more bones than any other fossil. On a normal day here we find 20 pounds of bones. They are packed in there, at least 1 every foot or so, sometimes piled up together. So the AI pictures aren't exactly like reality, because usually there are not articulated skeletons, but they illustrate the idea of how things came to be as they are and they are much more pleasing to look at than me moving dirt and talking into the camera.

Sharks do not have bone they have cartilage. That is why the only fossilized parts of the shark are the teeth.