Your videos mean a lot to me because they remind me of the fossil hunting that my brother and I did when we were teenagers in the 1950s. We grew up near Cleveland, Ohio, USA on the shores of Lake Erie. That area was once an shallow inland sea, and there is plenty of shale along the coast which holds fossils. The most famous find from the area is the giant head of a Dunkleosteus Terrelli - a giant protoshark skull. It is now in the Cleveland Museum of Natural History where my brother worked as Director of Development long, long ago. There I got to meet Dr. Donald Johanson, the discoverer of 'Lucy'. We never found anything as spectacular as that, but we found plenty of Brachiopods and Horned Corals (can't remember the other names from back then). We often went fossil hunting with our two cousins, both about our age. My biggest find was a Trilobite in a quarry about 70 miles west of Cleveland. None of the others ever found one, so I was quite proud of it. However, I'm really envious of the Amonnites that you collect. I love to watch your videos. Please keep it up. The other thing that I love is to listen to your Yorkshire accent. I'm sure that if you were to hear a northern Ohio accent you'd probably be amused too. In the Sixties I was a young officer in the US Navy, and in July, 1967 I took a month's leave to travel around Europe alone. In London I rented a car and drove all the way up to Inverness and back. I headed north on the eastern side of England, visiting York, the Yorkshire Moors, Middlesborough, Durham and Newcastle along the way. Please tell me upon which Yorkshire beach do you hunt your fossils? John Szubski aka TalltravelerUSN

@ethanhawtin7561

4 жыл бұрын

I go fossiling where the brothers go the best spots are Sandsend, kettleness and port mulgrave . Salt wick bay is ok but is quite over hunted now. Hope this helps 😁👍😁👍

@johnszubski

4 жыл бұрын

@@ethanhawtin7561Thanks for the information. I'll find the beaches on line.

@ethanhawtin7561

4 жыл бұрын

Your welcome if you want anymore info just ask 👍🙂

@YorkshireFossils

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot for your comments, was very interesting to read! We will keep the videos up for sure! We don’t find trilobites here but I wish we did. The other comments just above mine in reply to your comment list probably the best areas in my opinion as well 🙌🏻

@ethanhawtin7561

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, my fav is sandsend because it is such a lovely walk to the beach and there are such great finds there also

I swear - had I found that ichthyosaur plate, my limbs would have flown off! You are one lucky fellow.

@YorkshireFossils

4 жыл бұрын

My limbs also almost did fly off when I had to carry the thing back to the car, was gruelling work! 😝

Spectacular! The scenery is so ancient and wild looking. The waterfalls...no words. Thanks for bringing us this video. Your ichthyosaur specimen is phenomenal! Y’all do amazing work! I agree with another commenter, would love to see some fossil preparations. Have you ever read the book, Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier? It’s based on a true story about Mary Anning who lived in Lyme Regis. She was interested in fossils since a young child. Her discoveries include the first ichthyosaur skeleton correctly identified, the first two more complete plesiosaur skeletons found, important fish fossils and many more important discoveries. She did not always receive full credit for her scientific discoveries and was not allowed to join the prestigious Geographical Society of London because she was a woman. This book is a fascinating read and I just discovered sometching on Wiki I did not know about her. It is often claimed that her story was the inspiration for the 1908 tongue twister, “She sells seashells by the seashore” byTerry Sullivan. She did indeed sell seashells and fossils to help support her family but she struggled financially for much of her life. Wow! I think I’ve just written a book report 😂🤣

Oh wow, I would have LOVED to go on a couple of these treks. This is sooo darn fascinating.

Cracking specimen at the end. Well done. Any chance of a few videos on preparing fossils using certain tools. Keep up the great work 👍

@YorkshireFossils

4 жыл бұрын

I am definitely going to be making a fossil preparation video, but at the moment I just haven’t had time because we’ve been so busy, it’s definitely going to happen though!

@zband9016

4 жыл бұрын

I'm subscribed to your channel and I have enjoyed watching your hunts. I would like to see how a fossil is prepared also. Here in the states where I live we have ammonites also but most of the ones that I've seen are monster in size. About the size of basketball to a beach ball size. If you want to see what I'm talking about, look for a youtuber called The Ditch Walker and watch his videos. You might swallow your tongue when you see the size of the fossils he finds.

Those are some really nice fossil bones, thank you for showing. Great video thank you.

Amazingly finds and you’re very knowledgeable! Thanks for sharing this video.

Thank you for sharing your’s and your brother’s finds.

Great video. It is good to find so much wood from an ancient forest fossilized. You are lucky to live in an area that has so many types of fossils.

@YorkshireFossils

4 жыл бұрын

It’s very cool finding the fossilised wood isn’t it! It’s so heavy though! That’s why people tend to leave the most of it on the beach 🏝

im happy found yoour channel.... its wonderfull

Great video man. You stopped to explain all the interesting bits too this time! Perfect! The vert at the end is awesome

@YorkshireFossils

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much I really appreciate the feedback! I think this is one of my favourite videos and I have to admit that my brother recorded most of the fossil hunters rather than me! Perhaps I will have to get him to do the recording next time too 😉🤣

@keannesmith2211

4 жыл бұрын

Haha sorry mate, I feel terrible now! None the less your videos are great hence why I’m one of your subscribers! Do you sell these fossils? I’d love to buy one man and support your channel.

Fabulous specimen held up by the hedge. I love the sound of the wind and the sea.

Stunning partial Ichthyosaurs. Thanks for sharing.

@YorkshireFossils

4 жыл бұрын

You are most welcome, hope you enjoyed!

Fascinating!

Your beach is identical to the beaches around the Purbecks on the Dorset coast, particularly Kimmeridge with just the same ledges going out to sea.

Really exciting stuff. Thanks for posting.

@YorkshireFossils

4 жыл бұрын

No problemo, thanks for watching 🐊

Hello from Washington State,

Hi form America Love your country! So beautiful !

@YorkshireFossils

4 жыл бұрын

Hey, thank you! We had a few people from Texas come over and fossil hunt with us actually, they loved it!

I am just in love with this placeeee... Thanks for sharing..

@YorkshireFossils

4 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome, glad you enjoyed! 🙌🏻

So cool!

Amazing!! New fan in Alaska 🇺🇸

@gerrardjones28

3 жыл бұрын

What are the fossils like in alska?

Ammonites and belemnites are amazing, but that ichthyosaur tail section is the find of a lifetime. You were so lucky to find it! Your coastline is gorgeous, so wild! Merry Christmas to you and your family! 🎄⛄🎅

@YorkshireFossils

4 жыл бұрын

We were very lucky indeed! I love all fossils but the fossilised bones are my favourite! Merry Christmas to you and your family also 🎁🙌🏻😃

That's so awesome

I loved this vlog 💕 I think your ability in making & editting the vids has improved a lot ... thanks for sharing👌

@YorkshireFossils

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! At the time when I first made some videos I thought I was doing a really good job, but as you say they have gotten better, all thanks to peoples feedback :)

love you channel.

Nice hunt and your fossil at the end was quite impressive!

@YorkshireFossils

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it, it’s one of my favourite by far!

Very cool!

Loved the Ichthyosaur spine, how large was the living creature? I'm really enjoying all of your videos.

Прикольное хобби! Молодцы парни!

Can't wait for every video, my favourites on KZread! Would really like to see some prep video's as I'm just getting into it myself, particularly on ammonites.👍

@YorkshireFossils

4 жыл бұрын

Oh wow thanks a lot! Very kind of you to say. I will be making a preparation video at some point but I don’t know when, though it definitely will happen!

@necmettincelik7457

3 жыл бұрын

Brussel welkom ık ben wont Heusden-Zolder

I say this every time but a I am a huge fan love your videos so much first view like and comment every video 😁😁👍👍😀

@YorkshireFossils

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot! I did notice that each time I upload a video there is very quickly of you and like that pops up! Glad I know who it is now 😆🦖🦕

@ethanhawtin7561

4 жыл бұрын

Yes I just love fossiling I’ve been to sandsend 3 times in the last month and I live 3 hours away from it 😂😂🦕🦖

@ethanhawtin7561

4 жыл бұрын

Also Arron can you pay for fossiling sessions with you if so would love to do it pal !!!

I appreciate you sharing. Very interesting.

@YorkshireFossils

4 жыл бұрын

You’re most welcome, glad you enjoyed!

Looks like fun👍

oh this is awesome, no ammonites where I live. Take care.

Outstanding !

@YorkshireFossils

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏

Man your so lucky to live so close by this place like you id be the every day checking whats around

Haha all finds are lucky mate love your vid .

@YorkshireFossils

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you mate

Wonderful video Shae!!…. BUT!...…. that ammonite at 1:43 had my name on it as an amazing self standing desk paper weight.... and you left it to the seas!!! I always enjoy seeing the pathway down the cliffs and cannot imagine carrying a sack full of rocks up those steep slippery slopes with just a rope to hang onto. Aaron, that is one outstanding ichthyosaur vertebrae. How did you manage to lift that slab atop the hedge? Wonderful video as always. Please keep them coming.

@YorkshireFossils

4 жыл бұрын

Darn it, I would have kept it if I knew you liked it! I’m sure I could re-find it when I next go down 😆 The slab was very heavy, but much heavier when we first found it! It was almost twice as thick and I had to carry that in my arms whilst having a bag on my back with about six stone or more of other fossils inside. Combine that with walking over a mile across slippy seaweed and then climbing a hill, I had to stop at one point and take everything off and put the slab down because I thought I was going to have a pass out, was absolutely gruelling exercise haha

Amazing find, love your videos. Best ive ever found is 2 fossilized whale vertebrae (at least i think thats what it is)

Wow 🤩

@YorkshireFossils

Жыл бұрын

🤩🤩

Wow that dinosaur spine was amazing. Merry Christmas Aaron 👍

@YorkshireFossils

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, great isn’t it! Merry Christmas to you and your family also 🎁🙌🏻😃

@momascootaGaming

4 жыл бұрын

👍

Nice specimen .

I wish I had fossils close enough to go hunting for, it must be so satisfying finding and seeing the end result, hope you can post some of the highlights of the preparation. Thanks for sharing!

@YorkshireFossils

4 жыл бұрын

I will be posting a fossil preparation video at some point, not sure when but it will definitely happen!

@Madlintelf

4 жыл бұрын

@@YorkshireFossils Fantastic to hear, thanks!

Suggested content: Interview with your father and brother on how you became interested in this field. You can ask your followers on Instagram to send you questions too.

@YorkshireFossils

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks man, I will definitely consider making a video like that!

Woow fascinante !

@YorkshireFossils

4 жыл бұрын

😍

The camera quality is so good in your videos ☺️what type of camera is it?🤔

Wow

Sangat bagus fosilnya.. 👍

Brawoo from Belgium

New subby from Thailand. I hope I can do fossil hunting with my dad.

@gerrardjones28

3 жыл бұрын

From what I know Thailand has late paleozoic- early mesozoic and late cenozoic rocks but your beaches are beautiful so I'm sure you'll find alot.

@JK_was_here

3 жыл бұрын

@@gerrardjones28 Thank you very much.

Cool

@YorkshireFossils

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏

Nice,

@YorkshireFossils

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏

Buen vídeo

@YorkshireFossils

4 жыл бұрын

😍

I am amazed at how many ammonite fossils are present on the beaches near you. How far are your beaches from Lyme-Regis, where Mary Anning discovered her ichthyasaurs? Your giant fossil at the end of the video is incredible. I could almost hear the sounds of the ancient oceans. So many fossils, so little time! Have a good week!

@rebeccalucysmith9689

4 жыл бұрын

Dianna Diatz; There is a Jurassic band that goes from the coast in Dorset across the uk finishing at the North Yorkshire coast. You find similar fossils south and north. There are places in eg Cambridgeshire where Jurassic fossils can be found, but often only when quarrying or housing development excavations reveal that layer. Coasts are best because of the constant erosion. I’m by no means an expert, just got into fossils and did a geology evening course so I know what to look for. Just thought I’d share 😀

@YorkshireFossils

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! I think the other comment and reply to your comment answers your question, I’ve not been to Lyme Regis/Dorset much but I really want to!

@diannadiatz1140

4 жыл бұрын

@@rebeccalucysmith9689 Thank you for taking the time to answer me. I live in Southern Maryland, US. It is an area with rivers and the Chesapeake Bay, with many fossils. It is eerie, thinking all of these coastal areas by you held so many sea "monsters" and other fascinating creatures. Amazing how many "living fossils" are still around, too. Thanks again. Have a good week!

@diannadiatz1140

4 жыл бұрын

@@YorkshireFossils I know there is a fundraiser in Lyme-Regis to build a statue of Mary Anning in the town. I think it is called, "Mary Anning Rocks!" and was started by a young girl around 9 years old! I look forward to seeing more of your videos. I felt like I was right there with you and your brother, as he stepped through the water amid all the stones and rocks! Of course, I didn't get cold or wet! lol Have a good week!

@rebeccalucysmith9689

4 жыл бұрын

@@diannadiatz1140 Have to visit your part of the world sometime too and check the fossils out :-)

💥🥹👍🐚💥great video I'm 🥶 watching you. see you guys at the next one. 👋

@YorkshireFossils

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Stay tuned for more 🙏🏻🦖🦕

Wow..That was quite a find..What do you do with the fossils ? Is it a hobby?..Am new to this fossil finding so have no clue .Also it would be nice if you can show us how you prepare a fossil..thanks

@YorkshireFossils

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, the fossils are prepared and looked after by us and we have palaeontologists to review them in case they want to do research on them for example. It’s a hobby for us though, I don’t sell them apart from really common ammonites to help cover costs of preparation of the bigger fossils

@sunitasurendran2001

4 жыл бұрын

@@YorkshireFossils :thank you for your reply.. always loved the idea of finding a fossil as a child ..So nice to see you find so many..woww

Hi guys, i from Paris, and since i'm young, i love everything from Prehistoric age with my Dad. I want to know if i can one week come to your country and take a day for search like you it's possible? and with you if you want, then you can teach me more. thank's for you're content.

@gerrardjones28

3 жыл бұрын

Not thats its up to me but of course you can, our French friends are always welcome in bratian but you have some good fossils yourself.

Great video and absolutely amazing specimen. Ichthyosaurs are not dinosaurs though. It is unclear whether they're related to the group that includes dinos and crocs, the group that includes lizards and tuataras, or if they split off before both of those groups split from each other.

I can barely find a shell at the beach here in Perth anymore.... I would have a field day at yours!!

@gerrardjones28

3 жыл бұрын

Aussies are especially welcome in Britain

Good to see youngsters off today doing a hobby , and posts that are interesting. People seeing few lads together would think they up to no good. Keep it up lads.

Is this Scotland? Ireland? Beautiful..

@MancFlowerDragon

Жыл бұрын

It’s Yorkshire in England.

Keep it up and you'll be rich soon 😉

I'll be there after a retire

David A. showed us some nice amber which held great things from the past. Not necessary to visit America to find dinosaur remains.

2:25 - are you sure that's not a fossilised Greggs Cornish pasty?

Aaron, can you put a link to one of your first videos where your dad and friends retrieved that ichthyosaur fossil from the beach in a boat. Awesome story and retrieval, forgot to save video! Ps, loved this video, I’ve still yet to find my first piece of marine reptile. 😀

@YorkshireFossils

4 жыл бұрын

I will do! I’m going to re-upload it, I’ve taken it down at the moment so I can add in extra footage at the end with a bit more of the fossil prepared, when I upload it it should be my most recent video on my feed 🙌🏻😀

@rebeccalucysmith9689

4 жыл бұрын

Yorkshire Fossils fantastic, I love to see how it is coming along, I chatted to him about it when I bumped into him a port Mulgrave and recognised him from your videos 👍🏻😀

@rebeccalucysmith9689

4 жыл бұрын

Your dad that is

haven't ya ever found any gold or gems or owt like that?

Have you found any trilobites where you live or are all fossils mostly just ammonites?

@rebeccalucysmith9689

4 жыл бұрын

Its the wrong period for trilobites, although you can get them in South Wales, Conistone in the Lake District and Dudley. They're on previously quarried land. Didn't find any when I went to Dudley, but the site is protected now so no hammering and all the lose rocks have be picked over now. I found plenty of coral and shells though

@Mirrori

4 жыл бұрын

@@rebeccalucysmith9689 yeah i just thinked that perioid thing. Thanks.

@gerrardjones28

3 жыл бұрын

Both are common in Britain

👍

@YorkshireFossils

4 жыл бұрын

😎

😊

Every time I here something ending in “ite” I think of Pokémon😂😅

@Joe93819

3 жыл бұрын

Kite?

hey do you have a way to contact you directly?

That is a beautiful fossil. Can you guess the size of the ichthyosaur by the size of this spine section?

@YorkshireFossils

4 жыл бұрын

We can indeed, it would have been roughly 6.5 feet long in life 😎

@Mountlougallops

4 жыл бұрын

Wow. Cool. Thanks 🙏🏽

How do you preserve something like that plate, or those vertebra?

@gerrardjones28

3 жыл бұрын

Research fossilization

@richconroy5559

3 жыл бұрын

@@gerrardjones28 I don't mean "how did it become fossilized,' I mean preserve the specimens once you recover them?

@gerrardjones28

3 жыл бұрын

@@richconroy5559 Look after it, polish it, clean it, put some special stuff on it like glue, keep it in a safe place, its not like its going to be corroded if you leave it in your house but search methods.

How do you excavate a chunk of rock like this?

@gerrardjones28

3 жыл бұрын

Tools

Ichthyosaurs weren't dinosaurs, they were marine reptiles.

😃

Were Is that?

@gerrardjones28

3 жыл бұрын

Yorkshire coast

so many fossils together because of sudden death to many at one time due to a catastrophic event

@YorkshireFossils

4 жыл бұрын

Pretty incredible to imagine things like that happening isn’t it!

@thap34nut66

4 жыл бұрын

@@YorkshireFossils imagine all the other species that did not fossilize

What part of the world is this taking place?

@Joe93819

3 жыл бұрын

Read the channel name

Quick question 🙋‍♂️ the

@gerrardjones28

3 жыл бұрын

?

Hi would you be interested in selling the Ichthyosaur spine?

Great videos but there's just one problem the world is it millions of years old and dinosaurs have always walked alongside man the world's around 6000 years old and God made everything in 6 days

@gerrardjones28

3 жыл бұрын

Earh is 4.6 billion years old not 6000

Whats something like that worth, not that you would sell🤠

@gerrardjones28

3 жыл бұрын

Look online for similar fossils and see the price and I would probably be the same

Bro get a deadcat for your mic..

@YorkshireFossils

4 жыл бұрын

Haha I need to don’t I! The wind can be so annoying 🤣

@meetugarejiya7697

4 жыл бұрын

@@YorkshireFossils Other than that you are doing so great. I'm in fy bsc, these videos are very useful!

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Ichthyosaurs are not dinosaurs mate

@YorkshireFossils

3 жыл бұрын

Correct :)

So cool!

@YorkshireFossils

Жыл бұрын

Thank you 🙏🏻

@sirenzillaplays286

Жыл бұрын

Np

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If He is the Most Beautiful Being, which He is, how can His creation not want to obey Him? How can His creation not want to please Him? The reason why is because of foolishness. Man loves his own foolishness rather than God’s wisdom, Jn 3:19. Man loves his sin. If anyone loves himself, he will stay in sin. So man who stays in sin rejects his perfect Creator or Father, and exchanges it for his own foolishness. So now fast forward to today where we have God’s True Book. We officially know what God wants. God gave His creation a big help, the Word, to show us how He wants us to live. If we follow His perfect teachings, we all live with perfect peace, love, joy and unity. This is His perfect design for His children's lives. When we go against His perfect design for what we want, sin, we throw away that perfect plan. We throw away that perfect peace, love, joy and unity. Giving up these things is foolish. So sinning against God proves to be the worst plan for us! God wanted to help mankind. God wanted to save man from his foolishness. He wanted to help us the best way possible because He is Good. The best and only way to do it, as God saw fit, was to give mankind His Son. Why? The Son is the Word, Jn 1:1. The Word always obeys the Father's will. The Father's will is spoken through His Word. The Word proceeds forth from the Father's will and mind. So the Word that God speaks is the pure sequel to what was inside the Father's mind and heart. Jesus is that perfection manifest. He is the physical embodiment of God's will and thought. God's will and thought is expressed through His Word. Jesus, the human part, is the perfect, physical expression of God. Jesus, the human part that walked this earth, came to teach us the perfect will of God. How? He did this by example. This is why Jesus walked this earth perfectly without sinning. So Jesus taught us perfectly. He even was willing to die not only death, but the death He did not deserve since He never sinned against God the Father. He chose to give His life. That's why Jesus says no man forces Him to lay down His life, He chose to lay it down, Jn 10:18. God wanted to save mankind. Jesus wants what the Father wants. The Word always obeys the will. He shed even His perfect, pure blood for us. His blood is the fulfillment of perfect obedience to the Father. Why? Because the Son asked 3 times in the Garden, "Take my cup not by my will but by yours." The Father said the Son still had to shed His blood on the cross. The Son obeyed the Father's will over His own. So the blood was shed for that purpose. Nobody else had that kind of blood. Nobody else pleased the Father perfectly like the Son. So now instead of the law of Moses showing us the way to live rightly in God's eyes, we have the Son. This is the New Covenant. In Jesus and His blood, we now obey Him instead of the Mosaic law as part of this new agreement between man and God. So as man wants to live rightly to please His Creator, man now must turn to the Word of the Creator. So obeying the perfect teachings of Jesus brings us to how God wants us to live. The Son conquered the grave. The grave is the end of all who sin. The grave is the payment for sin. Satan founded the grave. How? Because Satan started death by being the first to sin against Almighty God. Jesus destroyed Satan's creation and fulfills the very first prophecy spoken of the Savior in Genesis 3:15. That's why Jesus came to "...destroy the works of the devil," 1 Jn 3:8. Satan came to ruin God's Creation with sin. Jesus came to ruin Satan's creation, death, with perfect obedience, which His blood shed proves. That's why in His blood, there is life. So the Gospel is God's reconciliation with man. How? Only through the Son. If you disobey the Son, you disobey the Father. Jesus says, “He who has seen me has seen the Father,” Jn 14:9. Repent and accept Jesus as Your Lord NOW!!! Then start to read the Gospels and obey His commands. Follow Jesus only, no other man, no religion. Only Jesus. Joseph, Servant of God Sent by Christ to evangelize the whole world www.clevelandstreetpreachers.com KZread CLEVELAND STREET PREACHERS..