We Found Dinosaur-Aged Lignitized Wood With Calcite Crystals! - Fossil Hunting in Georgia

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In this video we went on the hunt for dinosaur aged fossils! We didn't find any dino bones, but what we found was just as impressive. We ended up finding lignitized wood with calcite crystals growing in it! This wood is on it's way to becoming coal, and was preserved in marine sediments. It was definitely an amazing surprise to say the least! Thanks for watching and I hope you enjoyed the adventure!
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@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

Hey everyone! Thanks for watching the video! If you're new to the channel, I post fossil hunting/treasure hunting/crystal hunting videos once a week. Be sure to subscribe and smack that thumbs up button if you want to see more!

@cynthiaswearingen1037 4 года назад

Those sections are awesome!!! I love the calcite bands inside the wood. Beautiful finds! Please continue to show more of this type of exploration, I enjoy seeing what you guys find! But beware...if you hear banjos in them creeks, RUN!

@Duskrequim 4 года назад

Always a great when you all post videos. Of course we want MORE VIDEOS.... the more fossil hunting the better.

@billyswamphawk53 4 года назад

Yes I love doing what you are doing in this video bro. So yes I want to see more like this also! When I go up North I also love to Gold hunt & Metal detecting. Love it all!!!

@oliverrouse2809 4 года назад

Great Video boys I really enjoyed it. Very entertaining and enjoyable. I hunt fossilised material on the costs of the UK. Bet you guys have some awesome places to hunt in the USA. Looking forward to watching more of your videos. I am currently saving up for a Van to convert and live in fulltime so I can travel and make videos like yours. Keep up the good work guys! Much respect! 👌

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

Thanks so much Oliver! I appreciate that. Your plan sounds amazing to me. I would love to see your videos when you get some up!

@debihalsey2247 2 года назад

I'm always up for a video of you guys hunting something. I learn something everytime. Keep videos coming!

@gideonmilkins7991 4 года назад

I'm hooked on this channel, so interesting. Keep it up guys

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

Thank you Gideon!

@thaynegunther7925 4 года назад

Great video Kyle. Those specimens are cool. Love the calcite what a great surprise!

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

Thank you Thayne! I am in love with this stuff now hahaha!

@mirkatu3249 4 года назад

We have petrified wood up here in Washington State, but I've never seen anything like what you guys found, so incredible! You all are true Adventurizers. :-)

@downunderdandiving3357 4 года назад

Beautiful spot beautiful finds thanks for sharing

@paulau7590 4 года назад

Fantastic! I would love to see more.🌴🦕

@Theditchwalker 4 года назад

Great video and hunt..! Thanks for sharing Kyle...best of luck

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

Thanks so much man! Best of luck to you as well. I love your vids!

@gwynnfarrell1856 4 года назад

That's really cool stuff! Thanks for all the effort you have put in to take us there.

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

Thanks for watching Gwynn! Love taking y'all with me on the hunt ❤

@amandamuterspaugh873 4 года назад

Need more Georgia findings!! I hang around the Clyattville to Tifton area and I wanna see you guys find some stuff around these parts.

@katherinedoughty839 4 года назад

Wow! Awesome finds👍

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

Thank you for watching!

@briankesterson4365 4 года назад

Some nice fossil wood! A nice hunt guys!

@tyrellrivera 3 года назад

Pyrite and Calcite. You have 2/3 Lapis Lazuli right there! 😂

@jim9966 4 года назад

That's pretty awesome Kyle. can you show that after it's all dried out Once again another great location that you were just now exploring you need to go back there and see what else you can find 👍👍

@Mimi-website 4 года назад

Im a days late, but im here now enjoying your video....take care guys

@lilimander_rake 4 года назад

Awesome! Love the new fossils!!

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

Thank you for watching 😊

@harrykersey9086 4 года назад

Hey fellas I'm in N. Central near Athens and have found teeth and bones and protective plating from dinosaur remains and fossil wood

@randyjerrett3062 4 года назад

Thanks for the information and video, nice!

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

Thank you Randy!

@stephengroff633 4 года назад

Where I'm at there is a lot of lignitized wood and pine cones, the best way we've found to preserve it is to use a vacuum chamber to fill the wood with carbo wax before it dries. Unfortunately this is expensive and the only place I know can do it is archeology labs. Alternatively I have found paleobond hardener works okay when the wood is dry. I have also been told that the wood can be kept in undenatured alcohol, but that is also expensive.

@maryoneill5070 3 года назад

That is incredible. Can you show what it looks like now, a year later? ✌❤😃🙏

@lynne99 4 года назад

I'd imagined mod podge or resin would be the way to go preserving wise. People use resin to make jewelry out of real food, it's pretty cool but I don't know if that stuff would mess with its natural look.

@historyhunter5146 4 года назад

Also I personally think it would be AWESOME if you guys went to every county in MS , AL, and FL and made a video in each county of you guys searching for cool stuff ! 😁👍🏼

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

That is definitely an awesome idea!

@maddic1458 4 года назад

I love your videos Kyle!!!

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

Thank you so much!

@melindahawk8540 Год назад

Yes do find some dinosaur fossils. I’m jealous of all your adventures.

@basiliomerino6489 4 года назад

you should look into penetrating epoxy for sealing that up if its still in any way porous

@thomasmcnair920 4 года назад

Super cool bro!

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

Thank you Thomas!

@jefftrag1956 4 года назад

Really cool

@dyannejohnson6184 4 года назад

More videos...yes yes...thanks

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

Thanks for watching Dyanne!

@cooperwilliams9140 4 года назад

You should totally hunt some more there! Dinosaur fossils or BUST!

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

YES 😬 I will find Dino's!

@scubadruba99 4 года назад

I found a similar rock and did not know what it was until I came across this video.

@taylorraynormusic 4 года назад

I wanna go on an adventure with you wildkyle!

@DCraftersCorner 4 года назад

Great find :) .

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

Thank you!

@DCraftersCorner 4 года назад

@@WILDKYLE Welcome :)

@RMGCBG 4 года назад

Bart Simpson on the table saw “dad shouldn’t I have safety glasses?” Homer “no son, turn your head like I showed you”

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

😂😂😂

@jhickox 4 года назад

What creek is this? I recently moved from Ga to Fl and miss creeks so much! I've searched chattahoochee tributaries for about 20 yrs trying to find a hard bottom creek, and I've came to the conclusion there are none. Guess I was wrong

@officiallordofmysteries 4 года назад

Cool vid

@HAPPYPUMPKN 3 года назад

KYLE... @ 9:30... Drill a hole at one end & put a stainless eyelet screw & do a urethane dip or brush it on & let dry, shave off the hard drips / urethane cycles & you Will have a beautiful sealed up tight piece. 👌

@doriandryden Год назад

I know where this is, where i spent most of my early teen years living right up the hill, dug out many shark teeth. Thats hannahatchee.. if you go far enough downstream, the banks rise up above you and you can pick teeth from the wall.

@nonameneeded9267 4 года назад

Hi, nice and adventurous video (and watching als others from your channel amd loving it). Just one question: do you have an online shop (e.g. Etsy) where specimens can be bought?

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

Thanks so much for watching! I do have a shop! I should be getting more stuff listed soon. It is ebay.com/usr/wildkylefossilshop

@patrickbeaton6697 4 года назад

Man, that's super cool Kyle ! Myself, I kept thinkin' take big ass pieces, cut the pieces nicely for various uses. I see at the end how it got quite fragile when dryin' out. I'd look into suckin' the moisture out an stabilizing it beforehand if possible. (wood knife scales/grips are often soaked in a chemical to stabilized it to harden it.) Cool treasure hunt just the same. An for the record, very, few sasquatch sightings/reports ever report them actually hurting people. 👊

@miltonknowlestheinsanewitc4996 4 года назад

Most types of lignite do get calcite call reason and a few different type of pyrites deposits in it and when it's not a stable type It's just going to turn into Dust on you given enough time but it will be pretty till then I carve a type of black stable lignite and it's pretty cool what you can find in it and a good one to stabilize it is boiled linseed oil depending on how unstable it is

@anndavis6839 4 года назад

Great petrified wood samples :) you do know there are companies that buy large pieces of petrified wood? If those samples are of that size you'd make a fortune if you could move them 😎

@chadmccarty3444 4 года назад

Wicked cool! Two questions. Are the creeks over there subject to rising water levels like the Withlacooche? Also, how did you go about preserving the wood?

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

I've only been here once but I would imagine it fluctuates with rainfall also! I haven't actually preserved it yet, but have had it safe so it hasn't fallen apart. I need to do that soon!

@kailashpatel2935 2 года назад

any footprints there? looks like prime track ground

@johndoes2434 4 года назад

You should take a trip to the North like up near Michigan and stuff the Great Lakes area and there's a place where they have a Boulder Field and they called him the singing Stones cuz when you strike him with a half a ring like Bells

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

That sounds awesome! I was just up in Michigan in June and found Petoskey Stones and some really awesome fluorescent minerals. Lots of cool stuff up there!

@beatrisiversen7519 3 года назад

I can't believe I found this.. I found the exact same petrified wood/rocks same color.. some of the crystal inside then what look like orangy type crystal something.. However it was so hard ... I am very curious about this one since I have never heard about it.. Do you perhaps have more images like it.. Oh and the edges quite sharp. oh and Kyle can I send you some images.. if you don't mind.. just for clarification.. When I saw it I just couldn't resist.. I was so beautiful..

@stuartwatson3178 4 года назад

great clip how do those petrified wood with those crystal bands turn out polished?

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

I'd be very interested to try that! The wood is actually fairly soft so it would have to be treated first.

@mikehunt8375 4 года назад

I've got pink calcite in my wood up here in Upstate NY.

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

That sounds awesome!

@aaabeverages7152 3 года назад

My favorite thing to do, "Portage of 19 foot canoes "

@kennethkrueger3098 2 месяца назад

What are some good resources to find all these great spots

@jamiemac5846 4 года назад

New viewer. Channel is awesome. Throw fossil anything at me. I will eat it up! Keep em coming, Thanks!

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

Thanks so much Jamie! Glad you are joining the adventures 😄

@paleo1019 4 года назад

What part of Georgia is this? I think you guys are in the Blufftown Formation which is about 71 million years old (Campanian).

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

It was Blufftown! Near Lumpkin.

@paleo1019 4 года назад

Yep! Blufftown Formation! Late Cretaceous. Tyrannosaurus didn't exist yet during the time that sediment was being deposited. Very nice Kyle! Great work once again.

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

Thank you so much! I want to go back and look for cretaceous crocodile and shark teeth!

@paleo1019 4 года назад

@@WILDKYLE There is a high possibility of that! 😁

@TheDrummergirl33 4 года назад

Awesome Kyle, that looked like a cool place to hunt. No shark teeth there ?

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

There are sharks teeth but we weren't in the right section of the creek!

@TheDrummergirl33 4 года назад

WILDKYLE I was wondering , I like the holes and all the books and crannies, that was bad a$$

@Fvckcorbin 2 года назад

Ain’t that gorgeous this is in Florida?

@kylies9635 4 года назад

Ropes on the ends of boats makes for happier blokes

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

We were pretty upset with ourselves for not having a rope 😂

@anthonysantiago2936 3 года назад

If you don’t mind me asking what location will you guys in I’m just curious because when I get off work I wanna actually go out and do some hunting myself are usually stay around Rome Georgia there’s a lot of trilobites there but looking for different localities...

@WILDKYLE 3 года назад

This was at Hannahatchee Creek!

@minemilx2702 4 года назад

How do you tell the difference between calcite and quartz?

@danielwang4917 4 года назад

I'm confused... Is there a camera on top of the camera that he's holding? Why is he looking up at the sky...

@xxthebigtoexx1857 4 года назад

Hey wildkyle you should make a video of your entire collection

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

Definitely planning to do that soon! I get a lot of requests for it.

@xxthebigtoexx1857 4 года назад

I just went out hunting today and found two megs and a full great white

@TiffYG2133 4 года назад

Dinosaur National Monument on the border of Utah and Colorado is a great place to find dinosaur fossils.

@jhickox 4 года назад

I found some there when I was a kid!

@sheldenpaigehumphriss8540 4 года назад

Paleochris getting buff as fuck 😍

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

💪💪💪

@annalisecaptures 4 года назад

thats awesome! what are youre favorite and least favorite fossils to find? i found some trilobites at the conasauga shale in North georgia and it was awesome!

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

I did that not too long ago also! I love ice age mammal fossils like mammoth/mastoson/dire wolf!

@_jurassic_9890 4 года назад

you should your entire collection

@baffledturtle8293 4 года назад

Later on we're going to get a video called "We found fossil shells during the area 51 raid!"

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

Don't tempt me 😂😂😂 hahahahaa.

@lightning4818 4 года назад

Is it jet?

@NeroVSsnk 4 года назад

Excellent video, why does the calcification occur the way it does and not grow from 1 spot out like fungus?

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

Calcite grows in voids or cracks in something, so it usually grows into points when minerals leech into the void through water dripping in slowly over time.

@NeroVSsnk 4 года назад

@@WILDKYLE so interesting glad the journey was worth it (thanks to good research) So as it grows in the void does it start to separate the wood further? I should probably just look into geology right 😆

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

@@NeroVSsnk I think that is possible! If the void gets full and it keeps trying to grow I would imagine it would push things around. Geology is amazing to learn about! ❤

@jamesbarrett9478 4 года назад

Hey Kyle, I'm interested in doing similar things and hopefully finding fossils. At the beginning of the video, you said you did some research and found out that area was a good place for dinosaur fossils and what not. What website or other source do you get your information from? Thanks!

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

If you're asking about Georgia specifically, georgiasfossils.com is an incredible website run by a friend of mine. If you live somewhere else, do a quick google search on fossils in the area and something should come up!

@jamesbarrett9478 4 года назад

@@WILDKYLE Thank you very much! You've been a big help :)

@paulau7590 4 года назад

Could it be some kind of protein that calcified? ((Sorry,I'm sure it sounds like a crazy question. Lol ))

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

I believe it formed in a crack/void in the wood. When it got buried the minerals leeched into the cracks from the sediment above it!

@paulau7590 4 года назад

@@WILDKYLE Thanx. That makes sense.

@Amandahugginkizz Год назад

Chris b crackin

@jennifercoffee1639 4 года назад

I would love to show you some stuff I found in Kentucky is there an email address I can send pictures to?

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

Hey Jennifer! You can send them to the.wild.kyle@outlook.com

@harrykersey9086 4 года назад

@@WILDKYLE I live in N Ga. Near Athens and need to talk to someone about some fossils I found ! Please .. to thanks ! Friend me . Or message me

@Ahshshshsh 4 года назад

What part of Georgia

@shopkhanhbang 4 года назад

👍

@DinkyWaffle 4 года назад

what creek is this?

@huttnerd 3 года назад

Which formation is this? Awesome stuff!

@huttnerd 3 года назад

Just outside Queens, in NY, we have Late Cretaceous exposures with wood (lignite) just like what you’re finding there, but instead of calcite infusing or bonding to the wood, we have pyrite and marcasite. The calcite looks awesome.

@kathieruiz5157 4 года назад

I find all my petrified wood in the forests in my neighborhood. They have strips of small crystals inside. I guess the petrified would has to be in water to find big crystals, right? They are east Texas woods and red dirt and sandy loam. How can I find out how old it is?

@chrishansen8806 3 года назад

@scottmckenna9164 4 года назад

How do you research new fossil hunting sites?

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

Lots of reading and looking at geologic maps! Some states have "roadside geology" books that are insanely helpful.

@stoner4life765 4 года назад

Scott McKenna in Australia I just get some petrol and overlay google maps with geological imported sites maps and drive Hope I stumble across something loz

@joeboyer7180 4 года назад

Are you sure it's not Stramotolite?

@lestermiller2717 4 года назад

I used to make kool jewelry out of Dino teeth

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

Nothing quite as awesome as wearing a dinosaur tooth around your neck!

@lestermiller2717 4 года назад

I still have one weird tooth around 4-5” long around 60 million years old. I just need some gold to make the fittings. I saved some nice old mine cut diamonds and beads from China from 2,500 BC. To finish up my project. The coolest piece that I every made I think is a dragon wrapped around a sake barrel. I made it out of mastodon ivory with hand cut rubi claws. Love that piece the most.

@historyhunter5146 4 года назад

I’d really like it if you could explain what you find a little more please sir 👍🏼😁 For us folks who aren’t knowledgeable about all those big words you use 😏

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

You got it!

@jamesg744 4 года назад

Crystal collector

@bradernst320 4 года назад

I think what you found isn't wood but mudfossil bone wood has growth rings I didnt see any

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

It's 100% wood!

@dinoboy4012 4 года назад

Not all pet wood has growth rings.

@kenmilne2379 4 года назад

What a wimp! Kyle! Just give Big foot sore toe! Then run like f@--k!! Ha ha!🤣🤣

@ccccarriemchardy9216 4 года назад

You need a lighter kayak, so you can carry it easily.

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

This canoe is actually lighter than all the kayaks we have haha! It's the all the gear that makes it so heavy.

@americanrebel413 2 года назад

🖖✌👍🍻

@Andre-kc9di 3 года назад

Bro i know this is old but please dont hit two hammer heads together, very dangerous ❤️💯

@harrykersey9086 4 года назад

I have some pics to show you from my finds !? I you like ...

@BigFireDave 4 года назад

Looks like tourmaline to me???

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

Definitely looks similar! But in this video we were in sedimentary rocks so Tourmaline does not form there.

@biggiebou7268 3 года назад

Hey, just found you! What you are picking up is actually remains from the giants that died in the flood. Check out Tyson's mud fossile adventures on utube.♥️

@russellarmer602 4 года назад

this very cool but this wood looks like coal or carbonized wood

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

It's almost coal! That's what it means by lignitized.

@lisashaw2436 4 года назад

Yep that's kool keep destroying NOT

@jobgh8056 4 года назад

🐢🐢🐢🐢

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

Quick! Hahaah

@jobgh8056 4 года назад

@@WILDKYLE ofcourse🐢

@lumemaa7 4 года назад

Where is that squirrel from ice age?..I think you found his nut 🌰

@isamidnight 4 года назад

Spoiler alert, Sasquatch ate all three of them. Duckman posted the found footage.

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

Oh my 😂😂😂

@matthewjaykelly 4 года назад

ah first

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

Boooyah!

@matthewjaykelly 4 года назад

WILDKYLE woaaaahhhh u replied ur videos are so good and educating

@WILDKYLE 4 года назад

Thanks Matthew! Glad you can enjoy the videos and learn from them 😊

@Pinko633 4 года назад

Get ahold of me and I will let you guys come up to my backyard if you think that stuff is good you will freak out at what i got here and its not water eroded. Theres a whole 40' tree up here and thats the tip off the iceberg and its 10 ft away from my air conditioned house.