Daylight Savings Time has befallen Sloth Party. We barely get there by sunset, so there is only a few minutes of hunting without a light. We are so lucky to have access to this site so whether we collect by natural light or head lamp, it doesn't matter. We are here to dig fossils, particularly shark teeth. When we're fortunate, we find the massive teeth of megalodon, one of the most awesome predators the Earth has ever known. These giant shark teeth are more numerous at this spot than most others we collect. Not because there were more megalodons right here, but because of geologic good fortune. The sharks were here in the area currently known as Charleston South Carolina millions of years ago because their food was here. They primarily ate whales but they would snack on marine mammals, other sharks, and anything else that was in the wrong place at the wrong time. For millions of years, their teeth fell to the ocean floor and became fossilized. The ocean levels have risen and fallen numerous times over prehistory, and the constant wave action consolidated all those fossils together in the same layer, generally speaking. During the ice age, rivers coursed through the area and eroded that that layer in some areas, piling everything together in massive deposits like the one we hunt at Sloth Party. Its not like this everywhere, and we know how rare it is to find a one of those piles so we are hunting it as much as we can. Who knows when it will be over? We collect like today is the last day every time we come here.
17 ноя 2023
