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Did you notice that this Megalodon tooth fossil received a winning bid of $550 in the recently concluded Sedwick treasure auction?
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| Vintage Post Card OriginallyReceived by My Grandfather in 1909. |
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Did you notice that this Megalodon tooth fossil received a winning bid of $550 in the recently concluded Sedwick treasure auction?
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| Auction Listing From Sedwick Auction 22 |
I showed that to remind you that there are other types of treasure on the Treasure Coast besides coins and artifacts. You can find fossils all the way along the Treasure Coast. I've seen fossils on most of the beaches. Some beaches provide more fossils than others, of course, but you can find fossil shark teeth, as well as rhinoceros, giant sloth, camel and even mastodon bones on the Treasure Coast.
This meg tooth is more valuable than the vast majority of what you might find, but there are valuable fossils to find, and if you like finding old stuff, you should know that Treasure Coast fossils can be millions of years old.
Below are a couple of fossils I picked up the last time I was at the beach. Beach conditions were not good for finding fossils, but I noticed them along the way. They aren't really worth anything, but it shows that fossils are out there.
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| Matrix Containing a Few Pieces of Fossil Bone. |
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| Larger Piece of Broken Fossil Bone. |
Keep your eyes open. You never know when you might see a nice shark tooth or something else nice.
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There is always more than meets the eye. You've seen the huge stone heads of Easter island. but they are actually more than heads. They have bodies too. The bodies were buried over a period of about 500 years by natural processes. They didn't sink - at least not much. They sit on rock foundations where they were originally carved and then raised from horizontal to vertical.
Here is the link.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/07/26/famous-easter-island-heads-have-hidden-bodies/#220cb45af804
People wonder how huge stone blocks like these could have been moved. In this case they weren't moved - at least not far. They were carved on location and then flipped up.
Use your head and save your back.
Speaking of which, I was glad to see on a recent episode of Oak Island that the fellows FINALLY decided to do things a bit more systematically and methodically. They finally drilled a grid of holes to do some testing and sampling. I've been screaming at the TV for them to do that for at least a couple of years. I felt the same way when the Hoffman's ( I think) finally had Tony Beets (sp) do some serious core sampling.
In the past I've done a few posts on sampling. Sampling can save a lot of time. Very important concept.
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Here is a sad article.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/11/18/wwii-veteran-calls-for-help-and-dies-as-nurses-laugh-video-shows.html
While you are being thankful, express your gratitude by being kind, especially to those who need it most.
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Today we'll have a three to five foot surf. The next few days the surf will be decreasing.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net
While you are being thankful, express your gratitude by being kind, especially to those who need it most.
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Today we'll have a three to five foot surf. The next few days the surf will be decreasing.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net
