when I first went to the site in the
bottom of the river
you see these whale bones and and shark
teeth just poking out the rivers raging
it’s like holding on to a car going 65
mile an hour down the highway everything
east of the route 95 on east side of the
United States was underwater at one time
the Seas receded and what was left
behind were ancient marine fossil
deposits around 2013 actually pulled up
some some of the fossils but there was a
really large whale skull did not pull up
try to figure out how we were going to
dig it out and then how we were going to
actually lift something that’s three to
five hundred pounds from the bottom of a
river in Blackwater and get it back up
on to the boat today we were able to
pull up a five million year old skull
this is a baleen whale skull it’s very
very large
now let the skull is dried out a little
bit I contacted Stephen Godfrey of the
Calvert marine museum and he looked at
the skull and he definitely confirmed
that it was a baleen whale skull and
we’re looking anywhere from four and a
half to five and a half million years
old the skull was around seven feet if
it was complete just based on the
evidence that we had so that we’re
looking at it well that’s probably for
close to 40 feet in length and somewhere
around 30 tons so this was we’ve ignore
the brain one set of the whale these
were ancient shallow seas and often
calving areas for whales so they’ve
become a great food source for large
sharks like Megalodon or very very large
mako sharks so a lot of the bones that
we find have lacerations or chomp marks
from these large sharks you pull these
fossils up and they tell a story the
bite marks and lacerations arcs to the
size of the of the teeth and the types
of sharks they all tell a story and it’s
a huge puzzle they’re putting the pieces
together and this piece would actually
fit right in here
you
bottom of the river
you see these whale bones and and shark
teeth just poking out the rivers raging
it’s like holding on to a car going 65
mile an hour down the highway everything
east of the route 95 on east side of the
United States was underwater at one time
the Seas receded and what was left
behind were ancient marine fossil
deposits around 2013 actually pulled up
some some of the fossils but there was a
really large whale skull did not pull up
try to figure out how we were going to
dig it out and then how we were going to
actually lift something that’s three to
five hundred pounds from the bottom of a
river in Blackwater and get it back up
on to the boat today we were able to
pull up a five million year old skull
this is a baleen whale skull it’s very
very large
now let the skull is dried out a little
bit I contacted Stephen Godfrey of the
Calvert marine museum and he looked at
the skull and he definitely confirmed
that it was a baleen whale skull and
we’re looking anywhere from four and a
half to five and a half million years
old the skull was around seven feet if
it was complete just based on the
evidence that we had so that we’re
looking at it well that’s probably for
close to 40 feet in length and somewhere
around 30 tons so this was we’ve ignore
the brain one set of the whale these
were ancient shallow seas and often
calving areas for whales so they’ve
become a great food source for large
sharks like Megalodon or very very large
mako sharks so a lot of the bones that
we find have lacerations or chomp marks
from these large sharks you pull these
fossils up and they tell a story the
bite marks and lacerations arcs to the
size of the of the teeth and the types
of sharks they all tell a story and it’s
a huge puzzle they’re putting the pieces
together and this piece would actually
fit right in here
you
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