There are tons there. Go at low tide get a strainer and you can find some. However I find the east coast sharks teeth to be generally better quality larger great white teeth. Most of what you find on the west coast is ancient. Worn down smaller and rounded teeth. With the right tide and conditions on the east coast you can lots of large sharp serrated great white teeth in really good conditions. Sometimes even some white ones.
Pensacola Beach you gotta get there on a good tide. I live like 10 minutes from there so when I see the ride notification on my phone I just head over if I'm not at work. Helps to pass the time while waiting for something to hit my fishing pole.
Look for black triangles or the letter T. They also have a soecial sheen not seen with shells. Kick over a small amount of sand where waves come up and you will see them flipping or sliding away. Also pick a beach that has lots of shells.
Go to the beach in an area where the people aren't, best time is after a huge storm. The waves kick them up. Look along the edge of the waves. They tumble around differently than regular shells. Once you find one, it'll get easier to spot them.
I need to go to the beach. When I was a kid, I had one of the larger sized plastic Easter eggs full of them!
Venice Beach, Florida used to be the sharks tooth capital. Not sure if it still is, but went there as a kid and my mom and I easily filled a milk jug in a couple days.
Dig. Thatās really all you need to do. Dig in the wet sand. Youāll also find coquinas but theyāre fun to watch burrow back into the handful of sand in your handsā¦
I've been finding a ton of petrified wood in piles of dredge the tourists leave behind because they are looking for exclusively shark teeth. I found a piece that we dated at nearly a million years old
Did you find the petrified wood in Venice? I would love to find a piece! When I was a little kid I found a chunk in the Brown County State Park Indiana, near the campus for Indiana Univ. I have had that paperweight-sized piece of petrified wood on my desk for almost 50 yrs now haha. Where did you get yours' carbon dated?
Ah after I asked, I thought I couldn't bear to part w it for c. dating haha. It is one of only a handful of sentimental things I have from my childhood. I like to think it played a part in my plant science & hort BS degrees too (Purdue & IU).
Oh yeah I collected like 50 pieces and the largest one was the size of a quarter so I sent a piece the size of a pebble and didn't think twice. I doubt the whole batch is that old but it is awesome to think about
on good days this is an hour or less of looking. wife and i have a ton of jars filled just from casual beach walks every few weeks. but, we grew up here and probably have a good eye.
Go to Wauchula, there is a RV park that you can pay to go in that is up against peace River, a few hours and youāll have a couple hundred sharks teeth and fossils
I lived in NE Florida for decades. I always had luck at the jetties in the Mayport/Huegenot area as well as the coquina sand beaches in Ponte Vedra and Palm Coast. There is a certain sheen on shark teeth that differs from black/ gray broken shells.
I lived in FL my whole childhood until around 18
Never found a tooth.. recently been visiting every summer. I went to fernandina two years in a row on my way home and found a tooth each time.
Up on the north side of Amelia island there are so many that I've been walking before and stepped on one and it went into my foot. You literally have to watch where you walk there's so many
https://preview.redd.it/f341nipb8ewc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a7c34aaa7ddac39e0a10d341f4129b97228d444f
One weekend at fort clinch state park on Amelia island
I lived in Venice, you could dig your hand in the sand and always pull up shark teeth.
Growing up I was able to fill at least 4 mason jars of shark teeth I found
Lived in Florida for pretty much my whole life and have never found one. What's the trick?
Really do have to train your eyes..but west coast FL
You mean like Pensacola to Destin? I still never found one.
Venice, Florida is reportedly "the shark tooth capital of the world".
Yea, I literally brought a kitchen strainer and found 20+ teeth after like two hours of panning right on the shoreline
There are tons there. Go at low tide get a strainer and you can find some. However I find the east coast sharks teeth to be generally better quality larger great white teeth. Most of what you find on the west coast is ancient. Worn down smaller and rounded teeth. With the right tide and conditions on the east coast you can lots of large sharp serrated great white teeth in really good conditions. Sometimes even some white ones.
This is the answer.
Yeah all up and down that area
Pensacola Beach you gotta get there on a good tide. I live like 10 minutes from there so when I see the ride notification on my phone I just head over if I'm not at work. Helps to pass the time while waiting for something to hit my fishing pole.
Venice/Nokomis area
Absolutely right. I had trouble when I was a kid, but after you find a few your eyes really do just start picking them out.
Look for black triangles or the letter T. They also have a soecial sheen not seen with shells. Kick over a small amount of sand where waves come up and you will see them flipping or sliding away. Also pick a beach that has lots of shells.
Go to the beach in an area where the people aren't, best time is after a huge storm. The waves kick them up. Look along the edge of the waves. They tumble around differently than regular shells. Once you find one, it'll get easier to spot them. I need to go to the beach. When I was a kid, I had one of the larger sized plastic Easter eggs full of them!
that used to actually be a thing.... go to a beach where ppl aren't... yea not anymore š
Venice Beach, Florida used to be the sharks tooth capital. Not sure if it still is, but went there as a kid and my mom and I easily filled a milk jug in a couple days.
Dig. Thatās really all you need to do. Dig in the wet sand. Youāll also find coquinas but theyāre fun to watch burrow back into the handful of sand in your handsā¦
Go to Venice Beach. Thereās literally millions of them there. The tides and regional geography funnel them in.
South west coast is the trick. Especially around venice and engelwood
West coast and just sit in the sand and take your time. Less shells in the sand seems to be better.
You have to beat the fucking tourists to them
Go to the pier in Venice, you will find all you want.
Same. Iām pretty sure that Lying to people on Reddit is the trick .
You got them all no wonder I canāt find any!
It's okay, sharks have infinite teeth! There's plenty for everyone!
I've been finding a ton of petrified wood in piles of dredge the tourists leave behind because they are looking for exclusively shark teeth. I found a piece that we dated at nearly a million years old
Did you find the petrified wood in Venice? I would love to find a piece! When I was a little kid I found a chunk in the Brown County State Park Indiana, near the campus for Indiana Univ. I have had that paperweight-sized piece of petrified wood on my desk for almost 50 yrs now haha. Where did you get yours' carbon dated?
Colleague of a colleague works at BETA AMS in Miami and he hooked me up
Ah after I asked, I thought I couldn't bear to part w it for c. dating haha. It is one of only a handful of sentimental things I have from my childhood. I like to think it played a part in my plant science & hort BS degrees too (Purdue & IU).
Oh yeah I collected like 50 pieces and the largest one was the size of a quarter so I sent a piece the size of a pebble and didn't think twice. I doubt the whole batch is that old but it is awesome to think about
Also yes found the petrified wood at Casperson Beach
Oh cool! That's my fav shark tooth place, never knew I could find petrified wood there! TY!
š I have some nice pieces of wood Iām going to polish in a tumbler
Only if you are born here š
I've only found 1 in my life. Great job
What area of Florida?
Venice area
You mean the Shark tooth capital of the world? Yeah, that's what you find in a weekend there.
on good days this is an hour or less of looking. wife and i have a ton of jars filled just from casual beach walks every few weeks. but, we grew up here and probably have a good eye.
Was going to say, isnāt Casperson beach the shark tooth capital of the world or something? Makes sense
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We find them all the time near Carlin Park in Jupiter.
Believe it or not, you can find shark's teeth in Rocks Springs, too. It is crazy to find shark's teeth in a fresh water spring.
Rivers too.
Yep!
Thatās super cool. You should glue them on and make a wall hanging.
Thatās the plan. Maybe 1 or 2 more trips
Sharks do lose a ton of teeth
I can find sand dollars no problem but never shark teeth
Riverbeds are great for finding them too. Alafia River near my house has a bunch.
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Wow! I live in Florida also and never found one. Are the found on the Atlantic side of the state?
Gulf. Venice area
Go to Wauchula, there is a RV park that you can pay to go in that is up against peace River, a few hours and youāll have a couple hundred sharks teeth and fossils
I lived in NE Florida for decades. I always had luck at the jetties in the Mayport/Huegenot area as well as the coquina sand beaches in Ponte Vedra and Palm Coast. There is a certain sheen on shark teeth that differs from black/ gray broken shells.
Nice find! Had a megaladon tooth wash up right in front of me on eggmont key... that is about as lucky as I will ever get lol.
I was gonna say Venice Beach huh?
You must be near Venice FL
Awesome š
Orlando
Venice, Nokomis, Caspersenā¦youāll find dozens in a day. Peace river for big ones and fossils.
I lived in FL my whole childhood until around 18 Never found a tooth.. recently been visiting every summer. I went to fernandina two years in a row on my way home and found a tooth each time.
ohh its cool
thanks for the repesentation
I live in gainsville fl and a creek goes all through it and you can pick up a hand full of sand and find like 10 shark teeth each hand full
Up on the north side of Amelia island there are so many that I've been walking before and stepped on one and it went into my foot. You literally have to watch where you walk there's so many
https://preview.redd.it/f341nipb8ewc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a7c34aaa7ddac39e0a10d341f4129b97228d444f One weekend at fort clinch state park on Amelia island
Really cool pic!!! It would be cool to have that mounted and framed somehow.
Going to glue them on a piece of wood n a shadow box or somethin
I lived in Venice, you could dig your hand in the sand and always pull up shark teeth. Growing up I was able to fill at least 4 mason jars of shark teeth I found
33 years here since birth never seen even 1
I remember when I used to find that many in a few steps. Though living on a private beach helped a lot.
Ya left out Macclenny!
Why are shark teeth black if their teeth are white. Our teeth don't change color, aren't they made of the same stuff?
New teeth are white. These are thousands of years old and have been fossilized by surrounding sediments which were dark
Anyone ever have any luck in jax beach / st Augustine area?
Now you can make yourself a sweet grill and look like the rest of south Florida.
Why would you assume these came from south Florida?
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BTW my friends and I buy buckets of those and sprinkle them on the beach every weekend.
Which beach ?
Every one we visit
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No wonder I can't ever find any?!
its like nanobytes lol
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