The sheer magnitude of those cliffs overwhelmed me. I didn't realize how tall they were until you set us down and started walking around underneath the falls. Be careful out there! Great finds though, loved that GPS-tagged whale(?), will be interested to see if you go back for it. No penguins or shark teeth this trip. Loved being along.
Being a crab in New Zealand eons ago must have sucked. Everything was probably trying to eat you and if that didn't happen the odds (by how many you seem to find), of becoming a fossil seemed pretty good. Lol. Awesome vid. Take care brother.
What! You didn't haul that huge boulder out in your pack? Hahaha! Your back has carried some weight in your travels! Great video. Love the preps! A real artist! Fossilized jellyfish....lol
The mystery is a concretion inside of another concretion! We find them on Vancouver Island occasionally. They’re typically uncommon so I would suggest keeping it.
I'm just amazed how he can distinguish that a rock has fossilized crab inside in a pile of rocks. Moreover, he can do it in just a glance. What a talent.
Thank you for the adventure and seeing some amazing scenery ! Take care , stay safe and healthy with whatever you maybe doing next ! Doing well here in Kansas since it has warmed up some .
I have to smile when you explain that you have a long hike to THE SPOT, and get distracted by a crab at the beginning of your hike. It must take ages to reach THE SPOT.
Another great video as always .There is an explanation for the hug stones.A mollusk called LITHOPHAGA LITHODOMOS (greek word meaning "stone eater")is responsible for the holes on these rocks
I have an issue with anxiety at bedtime, and I watch your channel to keep and stay calm when I can't turn off my mind... p.s. ...you need a tactical SKEDCO...we use them in the military to extract wounded troops, but they're light and easy to carry when rolled up...they'd make hauling all those rocks over un-level surfaces so much easier 😅
Ok, I can't wait to see how you take this whale boulder home! You don't have your wagon. You can't walk away & just leave it. It's going to drive you crazy. 😉😁 You should ask Paleo Chris what that might be. 👍❤️
Have you been to that beach that was raised by the earthquake yet ? if you have is there anything there fossil wise ? Have you ever prepped a fossil crab and discovered it has something held in a claw ?
I just recently found your channel and I've been binge watching. Love it! Greetings from the California Central Valley. You didn't show it in this video, but it's amazing how much the grassy hillsides I've see you walking through on other adventures look like the foothills near where I live. You could be hiking and hunting fossils in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. They look so similar. As a kid, I did many fossil hunts with my parents. Well, they were fossil hunting. I was chasing lizards and rabbits. The best place near us was in the Kettleman hills. You bring back many fond memories. Looking forward to more videos. 🦖 👍
Ah those sound like amazing memories! You are lucky to have experienced those fossil hunts with your family, it must have been something quite special. I'm hoping to do some fossil hunting in the States when travel is possible again. Thanks for the message!
I must say, you Have the Best View there and GREAT Rocks that All seem to Speak. Not too hard to find something, even Penguins - hiding. When You start viewing Stones in Shape and Placement of parts inside, i Laughed. Many finds, (small) i see Heads, Snake, Rat - perhaps - lol Attachment spots, Symmetrical, mouth, eyes are in right areas . . slight death expression. Yep, No idea, but hope to Learn after years of Crazy. I love watching to Learn i know nothing. Imagination helps, but just creates expression of 'i'm Nuts', from others. lol Love being Nuts! =p Cheers!
🇨🇦 It's so nice to go virtual walking and rockhounding on the beach in the middle of the winter. Did you keep the hag stone? It's pretty epic. It would make a mega bead for a necklace for you.😁 You could carve something on the sides. I can't help but chuckle because I keep thinking you could have called your channel He's got crabs😂😅.
I really enjoy your vids and wonder how you have the patience to expose those awesome fossils. I am a new subscriber and glad I found you through Theos Challenge. Havagudun Mam
So stolked for a new video! Fan from the North Island, There aren't many rocks that have fossils up here. I love the south coast though I'd love to move there.
@@MamlamboFossils Dude, I've got a motorcycle ralley there next month! Sweet, I'll go for a stroll. Hate to be that guy asking for locations, but can you point me toward a general area?
Fossil hunting in Kentucky is amazing Devonian fossils trilobites brachiodpods and crinoid stems and flowers if you get lucky. A Greek friend had his brother visiting and he was the head of the geology department at the university of Athens. I took him around to see some of the geologic wonders of the area. We were visiting road cuts I got out of my car looked down it was the biggest best preserved trilobite I had ever found. He said that will look wonderful in our display at the university thank you. I said the only thing I could say “of course “. 😢
If not prohibited or prohibitively expensive have you considered selling and shipping some of these crabs unprepped? You do find a lot and as a fellow enthusiast and preparator it would be amazing to have a go with one! Great videos by the way!
Could it maybe be sth. similar to a slipper lobster? I just thought it has some similarities with what you described as a crayfish earlier in the video.
6:10 - "we gonna need a bigger backpack" - What I'd like to know is: what is burrowing those little holes in rocks and pebbles? as in that slab at 11:10
The hog stones (12:48) we call them here in Germany "Hühnergötter" which literally translated means in English "Chickens-Gods" 😂 You can use these beautiful hog stones as a pen holder 😉 As always, great video, I really enjoyed it 👍🏻 Stay safe
@@MamlamboFossils There are different myths. One tells the history that a folk (many hundred years ago) hung these stones with a hole in the chicken coop. These people hoped that the chickens would bring them better eggs. Or another legend tells that people hung these stones in the chicken coop to protect them against a bad God (as a noisy ghost) and other danger 😜 So a lot of people are using them as a lucky charm/ talisman today 😃
Nah, that area is Miocene probably 10 million years ago, Ammonites went extinct at the K-T boundary 66 million years ago, so not found in rocks younger than than.
Whereabouts in NZ is this? I lived in Takapuna for a couple of years and there were no fossiliferous rocks anywhere around there (as far as I could see).
Mamlambo are you, your family and friends o.k.? The reason I’m asking is because I just saw a news post from 5 hrs., ago, showing a tsunami coming into an area of New Zealand. ( An 8.1 earthquake off shore ). Please let us know as soon as you possibly can. Praying for all affected, yourself and your country. 🙏🥺🙏
I'm incredibly naive when it comes to this, and fossils and geography, but how on earth does a crab become fossilised in, (what looks like, to us) a stone of some sorts? quite fascinating and now i want to figure out how these have been preserved. Just how old are some of these remains?
i have found some bones parts ive been trying to prep them watching you...its fun for sure!! i dont have tools so im saving them...will probably be a winter time project
@@MamlamboFossils you could say after contacting Chch museum last week and only five reported metorite finds in NZ I thought strange anyway Iam in Southland and have picked up similar specimens I would be interested if inside is black non magnetic or its all brown fusion crust that's broken off and weathered. As yours. In my findings I found a specimen with unweathered fusion crust that fell in mud and was identical to surface I seen on a large space Rock on display at Chch museum when I was a kid. Tamatea left a 20km crater below Stewart Island and fried most of the lower south island and petrified forests and made lignite feilds and changed river courses and coastline in the 13th century. You may have a chunk of it...
Hello, I was wondering if there is a way to contact you private? I'm from the North Island... I was fossil hunting lately and I found a bone I can't identify. Toni
Hey sooo even if I had ambergris in the United States your not aloud to own possess or sell anything from and endangered anima.l People surely do but I have to much respect for the law to ever be involved in endangered animal poaxhing even if it doesn't involve the whale more like what comes out of it
I believe I could spend all day every day prepping these fossils and be very happy doing it.
Same here! My back and neck do feel it after a while though!
Nobody is stopping you guys! Plan the date.. And just go out there. I dont know how much it cost for that little dril he has.. But cant be that much
I could hunt for them all day we could make a great team
Great video , wonderful views of the ocean , Pleas don't forget to post more prep videos when you can , they are very entertaining . Thanks
I'm busy doing another one at the moment 😀👍
Yes, don't let fossils distract you from you fossil hunt.
Crabs were distracting me from the penguins 😂
Another good video.. Ive had some good walks along that magic coast line.. May see you out there one day.
For sure! That coast is beautiful 😀
The sheer magnitude of those cliffs overwhelmed me. I didn't realize how tall they were until you set us down and started walking around underneath the falls. Be careful out there! Great finds though, loved that GPS-tagged whale(?), will be interested to see if you go back for it. No penguins or shark teeth this trip. Loved being along.
Those cliffs are huge! Some are probably a couple of hundred meters high! That penguin has to be out there somewhere 😀
With the amount of rocks on those beaches amazing you find fossils. Comes with trained eye
Being a crab in New Zealand eons ago must have sucked. Everything was probably trying to eat you and if that didn't happen the odds (by how many you seem to find), of becoming a fossil seemed pretty good. Lol. Awesome vid. Take care brother.
Thanks so much! I think crabs filled all the ecological niches in New Zealand... crabs all the way down 😂
What! You didn't haul that huge boulder out in your pack? Hahaha! Your back has carried some weight in your travels! Great video. Love the preps! A real artist! Fossilized jellyfish....lol
Hahaha every now and again I have to leave one behind 🤣
Need a big bag for that beach! Very nice finds. That White's tooth!
The mystery is a concretion inside of another concretion! We find them on Vancouver Island occasionally. They’re typically uncommon so I would suggest keeping it.
Thanks mate! I was wondering if it was one 👍 I really thought it was a crab claw sticking out!
@@MamlamboFossils you’re welcome.
I'm just amazed how he can distinguish that a rock has fossilized crab inside in a pile of rocks. Moreover, he can do it in just a glance. What a talent.
It shows you how many hours I have done this for 😂
It's prob easy for him he knows what to look for if you been doing it a long time
Loved the video , a great hunt with some interesting finds , really love the music when you do the preparation 😎👍
Thanks 😀 it always gets me punped for some fossil prepping 🤟
Thank you for the adventure and seeing some amazing scenery ! Take care , stay safe and healthy with whatever you maybe doing next ! Doing well here in Kansas since it has warmed up some .
Thanks Steve! Glad it's getting warmer 😀👍
@@MamlamboFossils I'm looking forward to spring ! So I can do some hiking maybe find some arrowheads and stuff !
I have to smile when you explain that you have a long hike to THE SPOT, and get distracted by a crab at the beginning of your hike. It must take ages to reach THE SPOT.
Another great video as always .There is an explanation for the hug stones.A mollusk called LITHOPHAGA LITHODOMOS (greek word meaning "stone eater")is responsible for the holes on these rocks
Thanks so much for that Elis, I thought it was one of those stone burrowing gastropods but didn't know what species, appreciate it!
I have an issue with anxiety at bedtime, and I watch your channel to keep and stay calm when I can't turn off my mind... p.s. ...you need a tactical SKEDCO...we use them in the military to extract wounded troops, but they're light and easy to carry when rolled up...they'd make hauling all those rocks over un-level surfaces so much easier 😅
Ok, I can't wait to see how you take this whale boulder home! You don't have your wagon. You can't walk away & just leave it. It's going to drive you crazy. 😉😁
You should ask Paleo Chris what that might be. 👍❤️
I hope the PDF regarding Muriwai beach was useful and interesting (and may perhaps encourage your sense of exploration :) ) Nice video
Thanks for it! I have to spend more time reading it, it was very interesting though.
Great vídeo Mamlambo love good finds
I just love those crab fossils!
You're going to love the one I am working on now then 😉
@@MamlamboFossils can’t wait to see it! 🦀
awesome video and hunt, love the preps at the end of the videos. Keep up the good work!
Thanks so much Floris! 😀 glad you're enjoying them!
I love watching your shows.
Thanks Lynn!
I love your videos. I wish there were beaches like that near me. Your smile is contagious!
Thanks so much Barb 😀
Very nice finds. I am amazed at the number you find.
Another fascinating video. Cheers!
Thanks!!
Have you been to that beach that was raised by the earthquake yet ? if you have is there anything there fossil wise ?
Have you ever prepped a fossil crab and discovered it has something held in a claw ?
I love your video’s I’m making sure not to miss them
I just recently found your channel and I've been binge watching. Love it! Greetings from the California Central Valley. You didn't show it in this video, but it's amazing how much the grassy hillsides I've see you walking through on other adventures look like the foothills near where I live. You could be hiking and hunting fossils in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. They look so similar. As a kid, I did many fossil hunts with my parents. Well, they were fossil hunting. I was chasing lizards and rabbits. The best place near us was in the Kettleman hills. You bring back many fond memories. Looking forward to more videos. 🦖 👍
Ah those sound like amazing memories! You are lucky to have experienced those fossil hunts with your family, it must have been something quite special. I'm hoping to do some fossil hunting in the States when travel is possible again. Thanks for the message!
Very nice video MamLambo!
Thanks Bruce!
I must say, you Have the Best View there and GREAT Rocks that All seem to Speak. Not too hard to find something, even Penguins - hiding.
When You start viewing Stones in Shape and Placement of parts inside, i Laughed. Many finds, (small) i see Heads, Snake, Rat - perhaps - lol
Attachment spots, Symmetrical, mouth, eyes are in right areas . . slight death expression. Yep, No idea, but hope to Learn after years of Crazy.
I love watching to Learn i know nothing. Imagination helps, but just creates expression of 'i'm Nuts', from others. lol Love being Nuts! =p Cheers!
Thank you for making this awesome video stay safe
Thanks Veronique 😀
🇨🇦 It's so nice to go virtual walking and rockhounding on the beach in the middle of the winter. Did you keep the hag stone? It's pretty epic. It would make a mega bead for a necklace for you.😁 You could carve something on the sides. I can't help but chuckle because I keep thinking you could have called your channel He's got crabs😂😅.
Hahaha 😀🦀 I gave the hag stone to Matthew's partner, she was going to use it for an art project 😀
I really enjoy your vids and wonder how you have the patience to expose those awesome fossils. I am a new subscriber and glad I found you through Theos Challenge. Havagudun Mam
Glad you're enjoying the content! Im loving Theo's channel as well
Awesome finds 👍
And great video
Thanks Robin!
@@MamlamboFossils also a question for when I maby find something on the beach here
What kind of glue do you use so the fossil does not brake ?
So stolked for a new video!
Fan from the North Island, There aren't many rocks that have fossils up here. I love the south coast though I'd love to move there.
Good you enjoyed the videos! You should head over to Taranaki, good fossils there!
@@MamlamboFossils Dude, I've got a motorcycle ralley there next month! Sweet, I'll go for a stroll.
Hate to be that guy asking for locations, but can you point me toward a general area?
@@Itssmial_Ova I've never been there myself but get in contact with the Taranaki Rock collectors on facebook
Waihi beach or Ohawe beach is where I go in Taranaki @@Itssmial_Ova
Great video and great finds!
Thanks!!
Y’all have such interesting beaches here in Texas are just have sand and shells
A lovely time with some good finds.
Thanks Moto 😀
I have only found one crab in my life.Your picking them up all the time 👍
soft body fossil? although it looks like bits of something around it.
I was wondering the same thing 🤔
nice fossil's my friend and still jealous of the great white :0)
Fossil hunting in Kentucky is amazing Devonian fossils trilobites brachiodpods and crinoid stems and flowers if you get lucky. A Greek friend had his brother visiting and he was the head of the geology department at the university of Athens. I took him around to see some of the geologic wonders of the area. We were visiting road cuts I got out of my car looked down it was the biggest best preserved trilobite I had ever found. He said that will look wonderful in our display at the university thank you. I said the only thing I could say “of course “. 😢
Aweee I see them alot on my beach. I thinking it's a clam next time definitely gonna look at it better
Another awesome clip
Thanks!
The effect and extent of frictional erosion from glacial action is quite interesting.
That pocketed rock with the bitsof bone took my breath away...
It is very cool! You have to wonder how that formed 🤔
If not prohibited or prohibitively expensive have you considered selling and shipping some of these crabs unprepped? You do find a lot and as a fellow enthusiast and preparator it would be amazing to have a go with one! Great videos by the way!
Could it maybe be sth. similar to a slipper lobster? I just thought it has some similarities with what you described as a crayfish earlier in the video.
great hunt, love the videos, keep them coming
I sure will! Thanks for the encouragement 😀👍
Curious as to why whale ear bones seem to be found so often compared to other parts of the whales.
The ear bones are very dense so tend to last longer than the other bones I think.
11:08 Gorgeous Formation. Those shapes.
Its a beautiful spot!! I need to spend more time exploring it!
For me all the rocks look the same😬 amazing findings man!!
Hahaha thanks mate!
6:10 - "we gonna need a bigger backpack" -
What I'd like to know is: what is burrowing those little holes in rocks and pebbles? as in that slab at 11:10
Wow you have a good eye! I have to constantly squat and look at the rocks to find something but i think its cus fossils in Estonia are smaller
So was the large holed rock an artifact or a "hag" rock?
Cool either way...
Thanks again for all your hard work. I love all your videos
Fantastic thanks for posting
The hog stones (12:48) we call them here in Germany "Hühnergötter" which literally translated means in English "Chickens-Gods" 😂 You can use these beautiful hog stones as a pen holder 😉
As always, great video, I really enjoyed it 👍🏻 Stay safe
Thanks for that bit of info! That's super interesting! Do you know why they are called Chicken Gods?
@@MamlamboFossils There are different myths. One tells the history that a folk (many hundred years ago) hung these stones with a hole in the chicken coop. These people hoped that the chickens would bring them better eggs. Or another legend tells that people hung these stones in the chicken coop to protect them against a bad God (as a noisy ghost) and other danger 😜
So a lot of people are using them as a lucky charm/ talisman today 😃
In my area, orthocones and other Ordovician-era cephalopods are abundant, but haven't seen crabs.
And apparently when I turned on captions it said that "Earbone" was "Earbud"
Hahahah close enough 😀
When did the first crabs even appear?
@@MamlamboFossils They first appeared in the Early Cretaceous
Hello ! Just a question, Can you find ammonites in those beaches?
Nah, that area is Miocene probably 10 million years ago, Ammonites went extinct at the K-T boundary 66 million years ago, so not found in rocks younger than than.
Whereabouts in NZ is this? I lived in Takapuna for a couple of years and there were no fossiliferous rocks anywhere around there (as far as I could see).
South Island :)
Amazing , where is this ?
Mamlambo are you, your family and friends o.k.? The reason I’m asking is because I just saw a news post from 5 hrs., ago, showing a tsunami coming into an area of New Zealand. ( An 8.1 earthquake off shore ). Please let us know as soon as you possibly can. Praying for all affected, yourself and your country. 🙏🥺🙏
Thanks Lizzy, we are fine 👍
Question? What size are these penguins you're looking for? Are you just looking for the head. Sorry novice here.
They are quite large, maybe even emperor penguin sized. But the one I have seen myself was rugby ball sized
I want to come fossil hunt with you! I’ll be your muscle and we can pick up one of those big fossils you tagged on your gps!
It's good exercise that's for sure 😀
I'm incredibly naive when it comes to this, and fossils and geography, but how on earth does a crab become fossilised in, (what looks like, to us) a stone of some sorts? quite fascinating and now i want to figure out how these have been preserved. Just how old are some of these remains?
Question,, if it isn t that hard as a normal fossil you found , does it mean it isn t that old?
What time is it? It’s Fossil Time!
😂🦀🐳🦈
If the fossils are where you are.............Get distracted ;)
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Thanks!
You end up getting "an eye" for these things.Look for things that are different
all i have is limstone and what looks to be quarts...i need to post a short on some redish rock i found i dont know what they are
any suggestions on what to look for in the ways of fossils or gold maybe? quarts...maybe iron?
Limestone is made up of tiny fossils and calcium carbonate so that would be a great place to find shells, teeth and other fossils!
i have found some bones parts ive been trying to prep them watching you...its fun for sure!! i dont have tools so im saving them...will probably be a winter time project
Maby caprolite
Yeah could be! Thanks for that, I'll check it out
Hi your big brown rock may be black inside and from my discovery's over last few week Rock hounding I think it's metorite brown fusion crust.
That would be really cool!
@@MamlamboFossils you could say after contacting Chch museum last week and only five reported metorite finds in NZ I thought strange anyway Iam in Southland and have picked up similar specimens I would be interested if inside is black non magnetic or its all brown fusion crust that's broken off and weathered. As yours. In my findings I found a specimen with unweathered fusion crust that fell in mud and was identical to surface I seen on a large space Rock on display at Chch museum when I was a kid. Tamatea left a 20km crater below Stewart Island and fried most of the lower south island and petrified forests and made lignite feilds and changed river courses and coastline in the 13th century. You may have a chunk of it...
@@murrayfnblackadder2512 I've never heard of that meteorite, I'll go check it out! Thanks!
@@MamlamboFossils try Expedition hunts giant meteor NZ herald mate
Search giant Rock snake Thailand
Y'all have the eyes to see
Did You ever tested to put Your stones under X-ray?
Some of them have gone through a neutron scanner which is like a super charged X ray and it looks amazing!
18:25 Maybe Coprolite?
It could be! Thanks for that 😀
Hello, I was wondering if there is a way to contact you private?
I'm from the North Island...
I was fossil hunting lately and I found a bone I can't identify.
Toni
Hi Toni, I can give a go at IDing it, email me at mamlambo82@gmail.com
that voice i know it lmao
Really? Have we met??
@@MamlamboFossils Mr. Botman himself ( Matthew
****Hey are you and your Family safe down there?? Didn't know how to attempt to check on you other than comment **** Be safe
We're all good thanks! I didnt feel the earthquake as we are far south. Thanks for checking!
How come there are so many crabs over there?
It must have been a really good habitat for them, maybe they filled in a niche in the area.
И как вы видите в камнях что-то? 😳
Echinoid?
I have
Hey sooo even if I had ambergris in the United States your not aloud to own possess or sell anything from and endangered anima.l People surely do but I have to much respect for the law to ever be involved in endangered animal poaxhing even if it doesn't involve the whale more like what comes out of it