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Lowcountry Shark Tooth Hunting Video:

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The GSA Conference in Columbia, SC

The Fossil Project, based out of the Florida Museum of Natural History, invited me to speak at the South East Gological Society of America meeting at the end of March in Columbia, SC. This was the first time the speakers at a session were mostly avocational fossil hunters. My presentation was on the value of amateur websites in the field of paleontology. I think my presentation as well as everyone else's went over well! After the session, we were fee to listen to all the other presentations at the two day conference. It was a great learning experience.

It was nice to meet and hang out with new people in the field and place faces to familiar names that I have communicated with through the website. I would like to thank Eleanor and Victor from the Fossil Project for inviting me down to speak. It was a wonderful experience! Oh, He-Man says "Hey-Hey-Hey"

Lowcountry Fossil Hunt

Of course, no trip to South Carolina would be complete without heading to the beautiful southern city of Charleston. So, after the conference I headed down to Charleston for a few days. Here, I would indulge on Carolina Cup Oysters, Red Rice, Palmeto Amber, Softshell Crabs, enjoy the warmth and sun (it was still snowing were I live), oh, and fossil hunt while munching on Boiled Cajun Peanuts out of the back of trucks. What more can one ask for.

Mace Brown Museum

The first day in Charleston, I met up with some really nice fossil hunters, Chuck and Walter of Paleoadventures. We were invited by Bob and Sarah of the Mace Brown Museum to take a tour of this museum in downtown Charleston. It is a beautiful museum nestled inside the College of Charleston. They have great displays that include an array of local fossils, Pleistocene animals, mosasaurs, Oligocene mammals, to dinosaurs. The highlight for me was the cetacean evolution room. It's probably the best series of displays I have ever seen on whale evolution. I would highly recommend visiting the Mace Brown NHM if you're in downtown Charleston. Thank you Bob and Sarah for giving us a tour!

Fossil Hunting

Originally I was supposed to go diving with Lee and Chuck, however, the conditions just wouldn't work out. The rivers were flooded one day, the winds were too high another day, plus the gators we saw looked extra hungry. Other plans to fossil hunt were also cancelled. Anyhow, stranded without fossils to hunt, we did manage to make some very last minute connections and get into some fossil areas. The highlight of the trip was a near perfect Great White shark tooth, my first Parotodus benedeni, and some pieces of Giant Ground Sloth teeth. It was a pretty good fossil trip! The video at the top of this page shows it all.

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Below are pictures and fossils from the fossil hunt:

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Recommended Carolina Shark Tooth Books and Items:

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