Fossil Found in Kitchen Counter | National Geographic
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- Опубліковано 28 тра 2009
- After a factory had found a 40-million-year-old whale fossil in a limestone kitchen counter, researchers investigated the stone's fossil-packed quarry, which could shed light on the origins of African wildlife.
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That would make the coolest counter top ever!!
Yes it would. Would make one heck of a conversation piece! Part Kitchen counter, part museum. 😊
True and pretty ecpensive
I would pay so much $$$ for a marble counter top with fossils in it.
I can make that countertop
Cilly Honey I would too. But only for my retirement house. Lol.
I'd buy one to mount on my wall as art!
Go to Portugal. There are dozens of marble and limestone quarries and MANY of the slabs I have seen contain fossils. It's very common to see fossils in marble. And it isn't expensive to buy when you go to source and cut out the middlemen. Practically every Portuguese house has counter tops and stairs of marble. Go to any big public building or hotel and take a look at the flooring. I bet you spot plenty of fossils - mainly cross sections of bivalves and belemnites.
that's amazing
I live up here in Williamsburg, Virginia by Waller Mill Lake. There are some creeks that flow into the lake, and I go there every now and then searching for fossils. I've found some shark teeth and some old bones but the most interesting item I discovered was a vertebrae of some sort of animal. It's obviously really old and preserved like a rock, but I've done volunteering with the Jamestown Archaeologists before and I've taken courses in geology at college, so I know the difference between rock
Either whale or mammoth. That whole area was underwater in the Pliocene and whale fossils are everywhere.
Hi Rev. I grew up in Richmond. Most of tidewater Va. is sandstone sediment, not really conducive for finding really old fossil remains. You are more likely to find artifacts of the Mattaponi (north of the James R.) and Powhatan (south of the James R.) Indians who lived and hunted most of eastern Va. There are various places in Va that give up the occasional fossil, but most of what you will find are from marine life. Keep hunting - you never know ... The most ancient fossils of all fossils can be found out in the Blue Ridge Mountains. People all the time find trilobites and other fossilized shell and exoskeleton creatures which lived in the sea during the Paleozoic era.
On the Maryland side of the Chesapeake Bay is Calvert Cliffs State Park, well known as a place you can find fossils.
A "vertebra" (singular); some "vertebrae" (plural).
RevBillyRayCollins : I'd like to volunteer
10 years later i get a recommendation!?
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Yep, me too. This is the first time I've heard of any fossil being found in marble.
same here lol
What's a Hwale?
Was gonna say the same. It must be Stewie after he grew up.
It's that big creature that swims through the hwater. ;-)
Jake West bahahahahaha bahahaha nice
At first I thought he was saying quail, like the birds
WHALE. Largest mammals in the world. For goodness' sake.
They have been studying so much and spending money on animal bones.
Why not spend a part of that money to protect and conserve animals that exists today.
Very well said
There's already people doing that though lmao
That like trying to stop the tide from getting the beach wet
@@AngelMartinez-hv6fj obviously not enough.
Welcome to "the think that i found in recommendation"
This is so bizarrely surreal! So awesome! Great documentation and video National Geographic!
"Exotic marble, colorful granite".... maybe just a sloppy sentence but it sounds like granite and marble are the same thing, they are NOT. Oh...and landmasses *are still shifting*, they never stopped. One can 'often' find fossils in marble because it's a direct decedent of sedimentary rocks where as one NEVER finds fossils in granite as it originates from molten rocks. Fascinating vid however.
Easily answered! As the sea receded, any low lying areas of the sea bed would have been cut off by the receding water, forming huge lakes. Just like the old salt lake at 'Salt Lake City'.
The same thing applies for the area of Egypt where this fossil was found. An area of sea became land-locked, the water evaporated to be replaced by deserts, leaving the buried remains of sea creatures.
Deserts are made of sand, and sand is made by water. Ergo; where you have deserts, you once had water.
conversely123 ayy i live by the great salt lake
The most common component of sand is silicon dioxide in the form of quartz. The Earth's landmasses are made up of rocks and minerals, including quartz, feldspar and mica. Weathering processes - such as wind, rain and freezing/thawing cycles - break down these rocks and minerals into smaller grains...
@conversely123: Not likely. If whales got trapped in a lake that then dried up, they would likely die in the lake well before the lake fully dried up, due to there not being enough food in the lake for them to eat and/or the lake becoming too shallow for them to swim around. So then you'd have whale carcasses lying around in shallow water, where the remaining creatures in the isolated lake would scavenge the whale remains. It would also rot and fall apart and bacteria would feast on it too. Finally, the lake might completely dry out, leaving the bones exposed to the sun and wind, which would eventually turn them to dust, leaving no trace of the whales.
The only way a whale could be fossilised is if it was rapidly buried under much sediment so that scavengers could not disrupt the body, and so that the mineral rich moisture in the sediments could petrify the remains.
To rapidly bury a whale under much sediment requires some catastrophic event like a major flood sweeping a large mudflow into the area and overpowering and burying the animals there. Noah's flood is an excellent candidate to explain the presence of fossils all over the world.
There's a desert in Antarctica.
Not much sand though.
awesome kitchen top
Don't read the comments guys... just don't. XD
I just started to read them. I'm guessing the comments are full of creationist claiming that this is proof of Noah's flood. Let's see if I'm right!
Oh my... Talk about a one of a kind kitchen. Amazing find!
Amazing counter top!
I worked for a high end builder for several years and loved going to the local stone and marble supplier to look at their stock. Some amazing slabs from around the world. Even saw a couple with great fossils. They were very expensive though. Our clients could afford them. Me not so much.
They shower the giraffe but he didn’t get a shout out like the other animals
Very cool!
🌿👀 thank you, good vid
That's awesome!!!!
A Wh-ale?
Say Way-
Now say Ale.
Now say Whale
"Wh-ale"
NO -SLAP!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha
Where can I see the full episode?
That is seriously a great find, the cutter did a fine job.
Yo how much for a countertop with a fossil you think?
Thousands...they are very expensive...a company sells them out of the green river formation
Facinating Geology stuff!
Honestly, a table with a fossil in it would be really cool.
That dude handled that fossil through the doorway. “Kart yea I’ll just carry it guy”
You have been giving me some daily chuckles with this funny chatter. It's like trying to explain a calculator to a cow. You either have to be drunk or have a good sense of humor to try. I have a good sense of humor and drink. :)
Cool !
Pretty KOOL 🖒
how much for a Italy granted countertop 🤔
Ima search for fossils on my kitchen counter top now lol
So cool.
sometimes, i think i really need jesus in my life. I've got this deck i'm trying to build and i think he'd have some good ideas on how to go about it.
Imagine finding a counter top in your fossil
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they are amazing group of people.
Its a difficult job, discovering the bones especially.
yeah ikr
'En-countered' Fossils.
That would be so cool to find one in you counter top at home!
I thought he said quails
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Amuru Deranto omg same! That’s all I hear 😂
Glad i'm not the only one
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Interesting
I would literally💩 myself if I found fossils in my kitchen countertop. I mean literally💩 myself 🤪
Wouldn't you just kill to have a fossil whale on your counter top?
Now that's way kewl
Exactly!
Great video!
A mason - a builder in stone, brick, etc.
ikr
I want that countertop :)
so crazy wow
At the thorton lime stone quarry in Illinois they found a 900 lbs meteorite . At one time it was a sea
nice
Yes, they can. *Carbon* dating has a limit up to ~50,000 years. There are other isotopes they use for radiometric dating and you can go back further than 50,000 years.
Is your fridge really that dirty lollllll
I just had fossil granite just installed. It’s BADASS
There's a sort of relative of theirs called an Okapi. it has a neck longer than a normal gazelle but not quite as long as a Giraffes.
I think humans should be waaay more careful for every stone we cut. Every ground we dig
Wow would love to have a fossil in my countertops!
They found a new one in a countertops in egypt
wow.
Imagine finding a fossil in your bathroom floor tile
Last night as I was looking at my overgrown lettuce with the seeds and their fluff. I pulled out some seeds and looked at them and noted the way the seed carrys itself through the air with the fluff. So what do you think about that? 1. Wow isn't it amazing how the plant perceived that their was wind and figured out that this cotton texture was the best way to carry itself through the air to reseed further away. How it intuitively understood aerodynamics and through random chance came to be.
Wow
they could make that as a cool counter but put fake ones in and sell it i would buy it XD
40,000,000 years ago?
Are you sure?
They said what ever they wanted - they think we are stupid enough to believe them
They said 4000 years ago!! Didn't you hear them? If you want crazy evolution stuff go to "Answers in Darwin" and listen to A.Ham. leave the scientific community alone you evolutionist!!!
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Metamorphic rock does not contain sedimentary soft tissue fossils.
Did you even read the description? It says it was a LIMESTONE counter top. Limestone isn't a metamorphic rock, it's a carbonate sedimentary rock!
@8zeitgeist it was a regular stone at first but they just made it into a kitchen counter tile.
Breathtaking bull!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Omg I would be lucky if my countertops has a design of dinasor's fossils.
i cant tell if you're serious or being sarcastic lol but thank you
Giraffes' necks grew longer?
I didn't know there were short or medium necked Giraffes.
I would love to have a counter top in my kitchen or bathroom with fossils embedded in it!!
If you look at the limestone blocks in many places in bath for instance you can see fossils in the blocks
i wish i found something like that
@jlettis "Why how does a frog become a lion through random mutation?"
It doesn't.
The frog and lion share a common ancestor.
If you mean, how new species come to be? It's called the theory of evolution, you should try and read about it sometime. It involves survival of the fittest and varying environments.
They actually have. If you look back, they used to be MUCH bigger and many actually had gills outside their body - like the primordial gill shark. Alligators used to be much larger and smaller as well (alligator-crocodile-cayman are the main types today).
But you should also take into consideration that things that are more successful tend to have more babies and tend to thrive. If a mutation pops up that helps either animal in lifestyle - you'll eventually see more of them.
This dude's like... *Hkhquale*
lol. i didnt want to get you mad or anything. its just that i am really curious about this. thanks.
it's been almost a decade since this video uploaded
What....what?
So the oceans used to be higher. Guess we caused the oceans to rise during the Jurassic period too
Cripes. The 'locator square' for Egypt on the NGS animated map of shifting continents was big enough, don't you think?! It was supposed to 'locate' modern day Egypt, but took in quite a few other countries. Not the most precise model, and one that isn't something you'd expect from "geographers"!
Great...now everyone is going to want one...
Sad to watch the earth being sliced and diced.
i agree - but what does that have to do with ancient whale bones?
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Wouldn't you expect to find the same diversity of animal life in a layer of mud from a flood deposit that we see today rather then different speices at different layers, many of whom no longer exist?
Please don't use logic with the creatards. It causes them extreme mental anguish.
Just imagine. More SpongeBob SquarePants education.
There are other isotopes they use for radiometric dating and you can go back further than 50,000 years.
Time began in 4004 BC and this fossil was created in the great flood of 3500 BC.
I don't know.
All I wanted to hear was an answer, not questions.
Although it would be entirely possible that we could have been the only species to have evolved in our direction, there were several other human-like branches. One example is neanderthals, which were physically very different then us and genetic evidence confirms that they were not human, however they built tools and buried their dead. There's a decent series on UA-cam called "how evolution works". I can't quite remember if it covers primate evolution, but it certainly covers the basics.
Id love one of those slabs for my counter top :D
God placed dinosaur fossils here to test our faith*
*Above comment was written with immense sarcasm and roflercopters.
Thumbs up. Not bad at all.
and a bone. But this is no rock, I've shown it around and everyone agrees its a bone, but to what animal? This vertebrae is at least 6 inches in diameter and maybe a little over 4 inches tall. I need to find out , however, if this thing is from a whale, which I believe, or perhaps another large creature, possibly extict, like a dinosaur. Either way, Im glad I found it and glad I did my part to preserve history.
Have to check my kitchen counter
me too
where'd you hear that?
idek
You obviously didn't read what I said. "Just because a wolf is different than a dog, doesn't mean it evolved differently, it simply means they adapted to their environment differently."
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Can you cite the source for that statistic? I'd honestly like to read it.
Unfortunately, anyone can say anything on the internet. We have no idea if you really have those degrees.
You are right, my education is not in the life sciences, though I am entertaining the idea of going for a biology degree, as I find it fascinating. Stating my education is irrelevant, as there's no way for me to prove it beyond giving personal information, which I won't do here.
Gonzo: Actually you are wrong. There is a lot of information important to professionals online; hwr, to gain access to the information requires an acct w/a professional of specific fields or accts via hospitals & major medical institutes where professionals can go online to read various current and archived medical journals. I've read plenty of medical journals in my time. It's much easier to bring up the info digitally, when available, than tossing through yrs of print back-issues.
Problem is the world hystory has been so mix and muddled up know one knows what is what!
If Egypt was submerged during the time of the dinosaurs how could have there been whales. The time differences between whales and dinosaurs is huge
I need a Coco lemonade