Hunting for Fossils in the Hills of Nevada

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  • Опубліковано 26 вер 2024

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  • @elescapo
    @elescapo 3 роки тому +25

    Am-mo-nite. And they are mollusks, but much more closely related to squids, not snails. Still, cool spot. Glad there are still some corners of the desert that are mostly untrammeled. Thanks for sharing.

  • @ericsvalland4417
    @ericsvalland4417 3 роки тому +3

    Dall Sheep are only found in Alaska & Yukon. Do you have Dall on the mind but really mean Dessert Big Horn Sheep? ;)

  • @mikegahm9706
    @mikegahm9706 3 роки тому +13

    You are living my dream.
    2.5 years to go in corporate hell.
    One day.

    • @cedarwest37
      @cedarwest37 3 роки тому +1

      Dreams often takes $$$$$$$$$$$$$

    • @RoboDriller
      @RoboDriller 5 місяців тому

      Did you make it?

  • @larryheppler9517
    @larryheppler9517 3 роки тому +10

    In this video and in one other I am aware of, you refer to the sheep in this country as Dall Sheep. These are the Desert Sheep version of the Rocky Mountain sheep. The Dall version are white and range in Northwest Canada and Alaska.

  • @tracy1394
    @tracy1394 Рік тому +1

    Proof the earth was once covered in water. Great video! Thank you.

  • @jimhernandez6686
    @jimhernandez6686 3 роки тому +5

    Hi thanks for showing the world that the desert is beautiful and interesting.
    3 things. Dall sheep are sub arctic species that live from Alaska south into Canada. They don't live in the deserts of the south west. The sheep that inhabit the desert are desert bighorn sheep.
    The "tortoise flipper" is not a tortoise. It's a turtle. Tortoise are land based animals. Turtles are aquatic.
    The ancient rock drawing are petroglyphs not pictographs.

    • @DesertTrailsExplored
      @DesertTrailsExplored  3 роки тому +6

      That is correct about Dall sheep. I am an Alaskan and I still call them Dall sheep. Bad habit. Never researched the difference between Tortoise or Turtles, thanks for the information. Ancient rock drawings are called Petroglyphs if they are pecked into the rock and Pictographs when they are painted on the rock.

  • @kathyzahnow8253
    @kathyzahnow8253 3 роки тому +3

    I love to find fossils! I understand about you not wanting to tell anyone. I used to find different fossils and shark teeth in Bakersfield CA that a friend turned me onto. I loved digging for those and finding stuff, so cool! 😀👍

  • @cmsjca
    @cmsjca 3 роки тому +3

    Ammonites are NOT snails!
    That area looks similar to Ammonite Hill in NV, might be same formation if not in same area.

  • @bonniealvarez5510
    @bonniealvarez5510 3 роки тому +4

    The earth holds so many gifts and it's so exciting to find some things like that. I'm glad you're respectful to the items that need to be left behind. Thank you.

    • @jcee2259
      @jcee2259 Рік тому

      I've been so respectful I've gated the hole entry.
      Keeping the unique natural bounty undamaged.
      I know where a city had buried rusty manhole
      covers and their circular framing. Mixing the
      concrete pour has lard labor but my reader can
      thank me after being schooled by that denial.

  • @ryface
    @ryface 9 місяців тому

    Oh man, great spot! Be on the lookout for trilobites in some of the sandstone outcrops too. That area is most known having a high concentration of trilobite specimens (of course you can't get to some of the best hunting spots, for obvious reasons). A few Stringocephalus "lamp shell" fossils have been found around there too!

  • @markcantemail8018
    @markcantemail8018 3 роки тому +1

    Thank you for the video . 11 minutes the Youth runs up with a Good one . Kids are great for spotting Fossils once you show them what to look for . So many times on Field trips the youngsters were finding great stuff . Better eyes , lower to the ground and the curious attitude makes a Kid a great Fossil hunting Pard .

    • @nanopig7766
      @nanopig7766 3 роки тому

      I love you user name

    • @markcantemail8018
      @markcantemail8018 3 роки тому

      @@nanopig7766 A woman ( ? ) in the Mineral Section said that at a Meeting . So for the next 4000 emails I signed off with that Name . It really Irked Her Ha ha .

  • @jeffhildreth9244
    @jeffhildreth9244 3 роки тому +4

    North West NV lots of em near the dry lake (sea) bottoms. Near the Black Rock and larger than expected.

  • @joestewart7487
    @joestewart7487 3 роки тому +3

    i've only watched a couple of your videos, but i enjoy watching the drive in to the spots. reminds me of the west desert in utah

  • @saraallsopp5838
    @saraallsopp5838 3 роки тому

    These videos make me homesick

  • @tangledshoelace4726
    @tangledshoelace4726 2 роки тому

    How cool!! I love fossils!! The country is just fantastic!! What Beautiful scenery!! Thanks for sharing!!❤☃️🇺🇸🙏

  • @comontoshi
    @comontoshi 3 роки тому +2

    Oceanic past . . . in the desert. Saw prehistoric ocean evidence in Wyoming.

  • @evolvedou812
    @evolvedou812 2 роки тому

    thats limestone, sir and there are no dall sheep in Nevada. nice video.

  • @sooobyrooo5763
    @sooobyrooo5763 3 роки тому +1

    really nice! thanks!

  • @sonniestevens1016
    @sonniestevens1016 3 роки тому

    Your secret spot is Fantastic! Thanks for sharing it. I cant wait to get back out to NV. There are so many amazing places to explore.

  • @saraallsopp5838
    @saraallsopp5838 3 роки тому +1

    We partied on Fossil Rock in high school! #PVHS

  • @wesleyhayley3657
    @wesleyhayley3657 3 роки тому +2

    i know of a area here in west texas where fossils are litterally laying on the side of the road. my son even found a megladon sharks tooth that was bigger than my hand laying within 10 feet of the pavement.

  • @lynetteswinburn5408
    @lynetteswinburn5408 3 роки тому +2

    Fun to watch glad you didn't share where it was. Those are some cool fossils, was nice to see a different type of quest!

  • @brokenroadsandabandonedmines
    @brokenroadsandabandonedmines 3 роки тому +3

    Thanks for taking me and the boys!!!!! Glad you edited the one screaming or me yelling at him! Lol

  • @jeanettepetersen546
    @jeanettepetersen546 3 роки тому +1

    Thats a nice secret, Hope you can keep it 😉

  • @herdfan697278
    @herdfan697278 3 роки тому +5

    Secret places are best kept to one’s self to protect the place from immature humans with cans of spray paint and thieves who would carry precious things away!

  • @Roboworm99
    @Roboworm99 3 роки тому +1

    So cool

  • @Pstanich
    @Pstanich 2 роки тому

    Really liked the trip. Thank you

  • @lucylou9417
    @lucylou9417 3 роки тому +1

    I love fossil hunting,good video,

  • @almontepaolilli7531
    @almontepaolilli7531 3 роки тому

    Great video. Would not have guessed that there would be so many type of animal and fish fossils in the desert.

  • @w9jim
    @w9jim 3 роки тому +1

    Those look more like Leverite than fossil ammonites.

  • @cheryl_the_horsechick
    @cheryl_the_horsechick 3 роки тому

    Loved the drive in

  • @catherine5446
    @catherine5446 3 роки тому +1

    Do you ever take greenhorns with you or lead a group? Would love to join you

  • @allenschmitz9644
    @allenschmitz9644 3 роки тому +3

    I found a Bigfoot canteen up there in them parts...cant' tell where because of 'click baiters'.

  • @mhutchison11
    @mhutchison11 3 роки тому

    thank you very nice to see

  • @mavric007898
    @mavric007898 2 роки тому

    Hey thank you for the video. When I was little, we used to live in Midland CA. where behind our house there were all kinds of fossils. Now here in Missouri even in my own backyard I have found fossils. Recently close to where I live, they have found a fossil of a Saber tooth Tigger.

    • @jcee2259
      @jcee2259 Рік тому

      Was that Saber-tooth Tiger was found in an adjacent state ?
      As 50 years ago I was one of two cave explorers who found
      a pair. Trapped in their den by an entry collapse. Seen as a
      mated pair huddled amid their seasonal cavern waterhole.
      Starving if not thirsty. No bite damage on the relics so they
      evidently comforted each other in the darkness. With jaws
      big enough to split prey bones for tasty contents. Thought
      to be ambush hunters with big rear leg bones to leap far
      but not ideal for a long fast chase. That location is under
      the State Capital and within a high-rise building. Where
      one steel manhole cover in the lowest level conceals a
      fixed steel ladder descent entry into the cavern. So.......
      go figure.

  • @jcee2259
    @jcee2259 Рік тому

    Yes, I've explored eastern Nevada, but was so lazy
    I crawled over marine fossils instead of walking.
    It was with other National Speleological Society
    members of the San Francisco Bay Chapter. We
    had USGS topographic hard copy for directions.
    The holes we wormed into were low but warmed
    by the season. Only one went vertical which we
    climbed down into a high ceiling slot. There was
    some walking also. Where the sun never shines.

  • @imzackson
    @imzackson 3 роки тому

    Great video as usual!!!

  • @champtaylor8356
    @champtaylor8356 3 роки тому +1

    Are snake encounters common as you explore?

  • @humanoid31
    @humanoid31 3 роки тому

    Hey guy! Watch out for that mountain lion! "YIKES!!!"

  • @dmozonnersepicoutdooradven3524
    @dmozonnersepicoutdooradven3524 3 роки тому

    Interesting video.

  • @michaelshannon7199
    @michaelshannon7199 2 роки тому

    If your interested in fossils, I reccommend the John Day fossil beds in central Oregon. Check out your GPS for the location of the fossil beds. Also, be adviced that it's Rattle snake country. Take care, and be safe.

  • @zeroUnitygain
    @zeroUnitygain Місяць тому

    I’ll find this place. I’m in Nevada, I drive everywhere

  • @stephenhamill7615
    @stephenhamill7615 3 роки тому +1

    Nice channel, the fossil you set back i think is a shark vertebrae.

    • @DesertTrailsExplored
      @DesertTrailsExplored  3 роки тому +1

      That would make sense. Was out there a couple weeks ago and found a sharks tooth. This is the first one I have found there.

  • @mariafurtado8931
    @mariafurtado8931 2 роки тому

    I live in pahrump and have three and a half year old son and I loved geology although I don't know much about it I'm trying to learn. Having said that I found a beautiful fossil in Indian springs by creature first base. And I always look at all the rocks on the ground in my yard just everywhere I'm kind of obsessed. My question though or rather my frustration, is that I often feel like I'm looking at a fossil in a rock but how can I be sure I'm not certain if maybe I'm just seeing things because I want to see them. So I'm wondering where do I go to either try to teach myself or get some instruction on how better to identify this so that I can bring my son with me and teach him to

  • @darrylthehorntoadpiper
    @darrylthehorntoadpiper 3 роки тому

    Really cool , thx for the Vedic!

  • @riverratnv6119
    @riverratnv6119 Рік тому

    Man my son would love to go and dig some ammonites.

  • @bradleyjanes2949
    @bradleyjanes2949 3 роки тому

    Hey ,i think you drove right past a t rex fossil closer to the big rock next to the bush👍👊🤟🇺🇸

  • @ByGraceIGo
    @ByGraceIGo 3 роки тому

    To think that was an ancient sea bed. Oh no I'm glad you did the fossil hunting! I love hunting for fossils! You are welcome! Are those also called nautiloids? Unless I'm thinking of the bigger ones. I just remember hunting for fossils in western Colorado with a friend of mine and that's what he was calling those.

  • @michellereilly979
    @michellereilly979 2 роки тому +1

    5 minutes of driving wasnt necessary

  • @anantdabholkar685
    @anantdabholkar685 3 роки тому

    Do you realize you're driving the favorite Talibunnie mobile!! Indestructible except by hellfire!

  • @bryanfinkell9022
    @bryanfinkell9022 3 роки тому

    I got car sick before they got to the site!

  • @bumfit5491
    @bumfit5491 3 роки тому

    I got two or three places like this ! The best one is out on Rancho Secreto !

  • @ADVNevada
    @ADVNevada 3 роки тому

    great stuff

    • @DesertTrailsExplored
      @DesertTrailsExplored  3 роки тому +1

      You need to join us next time. I will be taking Chris up to another fossil site that is just north of me.

  • @chrisstaylor8377
    @chrisstaylor8377 3 роки тому +1

    I like looking for Dino bone in paradox valley Colorado

  • @GIJoe-nk2pt
    @GIJoe-nk2pt 3 роки тому

    O the gifts ancient lake Lawnton has given us.. I’ve been all over Nevada and found many interesting things. I believe I know the relative area you are but I will never go or tell anyone because I respect the gifts Mother Earth gives us.

  • @tim7706
    @tim7706 3 роки тому +1

    Is this near West Wendover?

  • @alonzowitt5931
    @alonzowitt5931 3 роки тому

    Paiute reservation 👍

  • @LondenAndAutumn
    @LondenAndAutumn 3 роки тому

    I live in Wyoming and I'm constantly seeing random dirt roads id like to explore, but I'm afraid of being on someone's property.

    • @jcee2259
      @jcee2259 Рік тому

      I qualified to join the organized cave explorers of Wyoming.
      By past cartography under Montana for the US Park Service.
      The members do not remove relics but do research on them.
      Assisted by NASA if lifeforms are new to science or unknown
      minerals are discovered underground. If you join the National
      Speleological Society Inc. be advised NASA has said what the
      NSS members are doing is contributing toward future apps....
      on moons and other planets. Help your species go there.

  • @Deigratis
    @Deigratis 3 роки тому +1

    Is it legal to collect if you are on BLM property?

  • @largelarry2126
    @largelarry2126 3 роки тому

    What tires and shocks do you like best?

    • @DesertTrailsExplored
      @DesertTrailsExplored  3 роки тому +2

      I use Cooper STT Pro tires. These have a really strong side wall and handle the sharp rocks and grease wood very well. As for suspension I use Old Man Emu. Mainly because I spend a lot of time in Mexico and Central America and it is easy to get replacements. Everything I do to my vehicle is how easy is it to find what I need in a small town of 25 people, or how fast can I get the replacement brought in. In many of the remote villages, if I blow a shock like a Icon I would have to get to a large city and would most likely have to ship it out to get it repaired. Using just OME I can find it in some larger towns or have it brought in very quickly.

  • @nonameuno9394
    @nonameuno9394 3 роки тому

    Keep an eye on the kids out there. That's prime cat country.

  • @harleyflinchum1221
    @harleyflinchum1221 3 роки тому

    I would love to accompany you on a fossil hunt. My lips would be sealed off course.

  • @cedarwest37
    @cedarwest37 3 роки тому

    Fossil..?... where ?... Fossil... fossil...here fossil... fossil...

  • @garybalanesi610
    @garybalanesi610 3 роки тому

    Just tell em your looking for rocks.

  • @cedarwest37
    @cedarwest37 3 роки тому

    So it says fossil... but I don't think so

  • @Manly-BeastStudios
    @Manly-BeastStudios Рік тому

    Ammonites are NOT snails. 🤣

  • @caseykelso1
    @caseykelso1 2 роки тому

    Left at 4 minutes. Told myself at 2 minutes in I'll give it one more minute. Then another. 🤬

  • @spage985
    @spage985 3 роки тому +1

    You ever think maybe your a little uptight, its a nice fossil bed but it woukdnt kill you to share some info within the cool people community, I tell people what I find and have no secret places. Relax and enjoy

  • @cedarwest37
    @cedarwest37 3 роки тому

    Oh... looking for rocks... not fossil....

  • @dannyhood7428
    @dannyhood7428 3 роки тому +1

    There's probably some upper triassic and lower pleistocene, different worlds in the same mix in whatever mudstone type sediment. Igneous extrusions and quarts probably make the best fake prints I've ever seen. Lots of hard unnecessary labor then laughed to scorn. Maybe get your name in national geographic like that guy on jaws. Excellent.

  • @davedennis6042
    @davedennis6042 3 роки тому

    "I don't only do abandoned places".
    Shows an abandoned dessert.
    Good stuff though.

  • @cedarwest37
    @cedarwest37 3 роки тому

    741... still. No fossil... voice not good...he is a little twirt..... fossil... fossil. fossil... where.... fossil...

  • @reedsartofadventure
    @reedsartofadventure 3 роки тому +2

    Sorry had to abandon ship, didn't click for 5min of you driving around the desert

  • @andysanchez3030
    @andysanchez3030 3 роки тому +2

    Thanks for nothing.

  • @DucatiQueen
    @DucatiQueen Рік тому

    Lol, that stuff is literally everywhere, this spot isn’t special .
    All you have to do is go out there and LOOK !

  • @idiotneighborpyro-maniac
    @idiotneighborpyro-maniac 3 роки тому

    If you want to fossil hunt, we have ammonite's up to 24" across. I have a 35 foot mososuar in the Dallas museum. This area is known for fossil's. Sad thing, someday soon it will be under a lake. Shark teeth, bones, baculite, turtles, etc