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Hello everyone, I found this bone when I was snorkeling in Florida. I think it’s a whale bone but I’m not sure. Any information would be much appreciated. Thanks

Found a whale vertebrae, trying to I’d it in Northern California

Hi, so I live close to an area with lots of fossils. We find stuff every day. I would love to become more knowledgeable on what I’m finding. I’ve been told it’s mostly whale bone vertebrae? I have many more, but these were the most interesting shapes That’s about as much as I can say so far, hoping to learn more…

Took a short trip to capitola California during a blowout tide. “King tides” I think they are called. Anyway, there were tons of whale and I think seal fossils exposed. Hope you enjoy, Conor

I have been in possession of this "rock" for a while, so I can't be positive where it was found, but it was either the Neuse River banks in Pamlico County, NC or the Topsail Island (Surf City, NC) beach. I'm leaning toward Topsail. It's shape suggests another fossil (whale ear bones??) but the structure/pattern (close-ups) in the fossil looks like it should be a coral. Any input appreciated.

I got certified to dive last year so I can find more fossils. A friend of mine owns a 1200 acre pine tree plantation in Camden county, Georgia with a 26 acre man made lake on the property. As some of you may know the St. Mary's river is in the area, and is known to produce very high quality megs and other shark teeth and fossils. So putting two and two together I figure if the lake is deep enough it might be hitting the "fossil layer", which is at least around 15 ft below the surface, and as much as 80 ft, depending on where you are. I got lucky! in 20 ft of water, low and behold, the classic signs of a Miocene fossil bed. Lots of black fish and whale bones mixed in with the grey/silver clay of southeast Georgia. As soon as I got close enough to take a good look I saw a sand tiger shark tooth just sitting on the surface. I searched the area pretty thoroughly and only found a few fossil shells. at the very end of my 2nd tank I found another fossil bed in 15 ft of water in a different part of the lake, this one looked even more promising, but I was at the point where I had to come up and I couldn't look at all. Luckily I decided to rent a third tank earlier that day, and with that spent 68 mins on the fossil bed. I found some whale bones and 13 shark teeth, Hemis, makos, a few sand tigers, and some smaller species of shark that I cant 100% identify but are most likely black tip, dusky, bull, lemon or something similar, one was a 3.4 inch Meg! I have found better teeth washed up out of rivers on the surface, but only one complete meg, and it is only 3.2 inches. My first meg found while diving is beat up and the tip is missing, but i'm proud of it. Really didn't expect to find any fossils, I was more just trying to get some dives in for practice as I don't have many under my belt. Well now I have a copy of the key to the property, with permission to go any time, and the rest of the summer to work on my dive skills and search the private lake for fossils. And did I mention it was my birthday Friday? Couldnt have asked for a better bday present.

Well the deer hunting has been BAD in my spots this year so I decided to hit the bay for a quick morning hunt...of the FOSSIL variety. A blow out tide and frozen conditions usually make for a nice walk and not much more...but this time it was different. Some megalodon shark teeth, fossil whale bones and a real nice variety of Miocene Epoch fossils...all approximately 4-24 MILLION years old! Was well worth the trip! A small video of the trip.... <iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/7dHEvTZXzV0?list=UU8u0OrFmcyEu5qE_YvoVVtg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Have a couple more teeth now. I need a better camera to get in closer.