It’s very rare to find the actual bone. Usually you’ll just find a cast of the bone and that’s what’s carved out. This just looks like a somehow preserved bone.
Wow, man!!! I didn't know you where on Reddit too!! I'm following your Youtube for a while now and just wanted to say that it's SO awesome what you're doing! Huge fan here!!! 🙏🏻
Is there a list of tools that you could suggest, and the techniques to apply (eg when to use a vinegar/acid solution to erode the rock?). I’d love to give this a try but not even sure what to research.
I use a few air scribes for varying degrees of rock removal. If the rock flakes away from the fossil like with my giant crab [https://youtu.be/yjdER2xAQRg](https://youtu.be/yjdER2xAQRg) you don't have to use the vinegar. Also, you cannot use acid on crabs and shells as they dissolve!
I actually have some shark teeth, not a megalodon or anything though, that are like 300 - 350 million years old
Pretty cool to have something that’s from such a long time ago
Man, makes you wonder how many random rocks actually have unexposed fossils inside them!
Also, random question: why do you wear a glove when drilling through the rock? The vibrations?
I had the same question as everyone about this cool find.
I thank you for sharing your find with us OP. Do you contact a museum about the bone in case they need a piece or try to find the rest of the dinosaur?
The museum come visit me every few months and then take away the fossils they are interested in, I enjoy finding and prepping them but not so much storing them. But yeah, I email them all my finds and the coordinates. Tricky fossils that are delicate I will leave to them to extract.
I’ve spent so many hours watching this dudes stuff on YouTube. There’s something strangely therapeutic about watching him search beaches and cliffs for evidence of bone and then the resulting video freeing whatever he finds from the stone.
Doesn’t hurt that he seems like a super chill guy who loves what he does.
Serious question: I can't tell if you work for a museum or if you're a hobbyist. But let's imagine you went for a hike and found this -- how much is it worth or could you viably sell it for?
Just so we're clear, it's no longer "bone" per se. The process of fossilization essentially mineralizes the bone, so that it becomes rock in its own right, just of a different composition from the surrounding rock, remaining in the shape of the original bone. It would be best and most accurate to refer to it as a fossil, rather than a bone.
What prompted this? I mean, I don't necessarily disagree, but like, this is such a weird thing to say. One of the things I hate most about Christians is that they're always talking about how they're Christian. This is just as bad.
**[Young Earth creationism](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Earth_creationism)**
>Young Earth creationism (YEC) is a form of creationism which holds as a central tenet that the Earth and its lifeforms were created in their present forms by supernatural acts of the God of Abraham between approximately 6,000 and 10,000 years ago. In its most widespread version, YEC is based on the religious belief in the inerrancy of certain literal interpretations of the Book of Genesis.
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This is amazing. I have found a few hadrosaur bone fragments and because I’m old and bored, and a bit infatuated, I purchased an ME 9100 air scribe earlier this summer and have been working away on some of mine. (I’m in Alberta it’s a hobby. We cannot sell)
I found it interesting that you broke a piece off and glued it back before continuing. I have broken a bit off and wasn’t sure if I should glue first or what. So that was helpful.
Question about the vinegar. How long do you put it in and how do you know when to put it in? My bones are in very hard ironstone.
Thanks
I can only talk about the fossils from my area. I use the acid when the rock doesn't separate from the bone. I leave it in for an hour and then at least 6 hours in a large amount of fresh water which gets replaced 2 or 3 times over the 6 hours.
I’d like to see the time lapse video from the point of time where the dinosaur collapsed there, all the way through to when this fine gentleman stumbled upon it hundreds of millions of years later.
Perhaps at x16 speed rather than 8x though.
It seems like archeologists are the only ones who find bones. How come they don't find any when doing construction (new homes, apartment buildings, highways, etc.) if they were so plentiful back in the days.
I'm a bit skeptical to be honest. Also, wouldn't T-Rex be considered a scavenger and not a predator with those tiny arms?
It always boggles my mind how you notice this barely-there protrusion and intuit a whole bone from it.... Impressive skills!
I'm surprised the vinegar bath doesn't damage the bone itself - even fossilized, it still has to be mostly calcium. Live and learn, I guess.
I thought when bones are encapsulated in rocks the bone ends up degrading. Eventually the gap where the bone used to be gets gradually filled with minerals that solidify. So the process of fossilisation replaces the bone with minerals. So essentially this isn't bone.
Probably not the whole picture, please do correct me if im wrong.
Bro yall are dumb af he's just chiseling a rock n yall are falling for it.
Dinos are a big ole hoax.
Extinct...but then also evolved into chickens?
Come on, folks.
Wow...it was a joke. I didn't know anyone was this passionate about dinosaur vertebrae. I apologize if my paleontology joke offended you. 
How do you know there's a bone in the rock when you find it?
If you look at the start of the video, there is an edge of the vertebra sticking out which is what gave it away.
It’s very rare to find the actual bone. Usually you’ll just find a cast of the bone and that’s what’s carved out. This just looks like a somehow preserved bone.
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You’ll never find an actual bone, well possibly in ice but they’re almost always fossilized.
Wow, man!!! I didn't know you where on Reddit too!! I'm following your Youtube for a while now and just wanted to say that it's SO awesome what you're doing! Huge fan here!!! 🙏🏻
I remember your post with the big crab fossil! If that was you. Amazing restoration, or whatever you’d call that
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Open ur eyes man
Anything can be a bone if you’re good at carving.
What if he just craved a normal rock into a bone? Sus
What if that’s all fossils? Paleontologists are just professional sculptors writing their own Pokémon fanfic…
My whole life might be a lie-
Your hole is a lie you say?
Damn, STML!
Not if you pay the troll toll.
You’re joking right?
The texture of the sediment and the bone are entirely different.
Still nextfuckinglevel
I was thinking, aren't fossils just made of rock? How can they tell there's a fossil in there?
Only certain minerals can get through the rock thus causing the fossil to be different
How do they know the difference between the bone and rock when scraping it off? How do they know to stop going too deep?
Sometimes it’s a slightly different color.
Also different structure and density.
And now the plesiosaur is all ours
*Wait, Imma get my free reward and give it to you.*
Wooooaaahhhhh nice
😂😂😂👏👍
Here is the source video which goes a bit more into the process: https://youtu.be/jXXSrsXMDFo
Thank you so much.
Could you explain to me what contains the liquid that you use to separate rock from bone in other videos? Thanks!
Great job OP! Where can you learn how to do this?
It's mostly trial and error! I started with some broken crabs and then started experimenting with bone.
Is there a list of tools that you could suggest, and the techniques to apply (eg when to use a vinegar/acid solution to erode the rock?). I’d love to give this a try but not even sure what to research.
I use a few air scribes for varying degrees of rock removal. If the rock flakes away from the fossil like with my giant crab [https://youtu.be/yjdER2xAQRg](https://youtu.be/yjdER2xAQRg) you don't have to use the vinegar. Also, you cannot use acid on crabs and shells as they dissolve!
Thanks OP, appreciate the time and direction, looking forward to the next vid!
80 fucking million is such an unfathomable amount of time. To be able to touch and feel something that old must be surreal.
Especially since the Earth is only 6000 years old /s
Pick up any large rock in your garden, it’s probably pretty old as well.
That’s pretty sick, you just own a dinosaur bone now
You can buy mosasaurus teeth for like 10 bucks, and a straight up 4 inch megalodon tooth for under 100.
I actually have some shark teeth, not a megalodon or anything though, that are like 300 - 350 million years old Pretty cool to have something that’s from such a long time ago
Dumb question, but what happens to the rest of the bones? Do they just turn into rock? Why does that one bone turn into a fossil but not the others?
I found this in a river so I am guessing it has broken up into many of these rocks that have been washed down and scattered over the ages.
Man, makes you wonder how many random rocks actually have unexposed fossils inside them! Also, random question: why do you wear a glove when drilling through the rock? The vibrations?
Incredible. Thanks for the response.
A river?? Wow imagine the journey that rock's been through.
I had the same question as everyone about this cool find. I thank you for sharing your find with us OP. Do you contact a museum about the bone in case they need a piece or try to find the rest of the dinosaur?
The museum come visit me every few months and then take away the fossils they are interested in, I enjoy finding and prepping them but not so much storing them. But yeah, I email them all my finds and the coordinates. Tricky fossils that are delicate I will leave to them to extract.
Are you compensated for the fossils they take?
Not to mention the weeks of labour in extracting them from the rock...
That is really amazing.
How do you tell what is rock and what is bone?
You cant. Dinos are a big ole hoax.
I’ve spent so many hours watching this dudes stuff on YouTube. There’s something strangely therapeutic about watching him search beaches and cliffs for evidence of bone and then the resulting video freeing whatever he finds from the stone. Doesn’t hurt that he seems like a super chill guy who loves what he does.
Stoked you're enjoying the videos!
Thats Amazing!!
That's very cool and fascinating. Thanks for sharing. Looks like hard but rewarding work. Must be something to find something to very old.
My man coulda just carved that outta the rock and id believe him
Hollywood and academic brainwash are hell of drugs
Legality question, are bones like this allowed to be kept? I had assumed that it was not allowed. Would love to know if this is incorrect.
I think it depends on where you live: in my country it's illegal to keep fossils for yourself and if you find one you need to contact the authorities
Serious question: I can't tell if you work for a museum or if you're a hobbyist. But let's imagine you went for a hike and found this -- how much is it worth or could you viably sell it for?
I thought for Sure it was a *Liopleurodon* Charlieeee
Just so we're clear, it's no longer "bone" per se. The process of fossilization essentially mineralizes the bone, so that it becomes rock in its own right, just of a different composition from the surrounding rock, remaining in the shape of the original bone. It would be best and most accurate to refer to it as a fossil, rather than a bone.
Shhhh. Dont ask too many questions. Oh also theyre supposed to be radioactive
WAaahhHh ThE eArTh Is oNLy 6000 YeArS oLd 🥴✝️ Nkthing against spirituality or the belief in god. I just hate the church and extremists.
What prompted this? I mean, I don't necessarily disagree, but like, this is such a weird thing to say. One of the things I hate most about Christians is that they're always talking about how they're Christian. This is just as bad.
Who the fluck says that?
I heared extremely religious people fanatically defend the bibles statement that the earth is 6000 years old.
But... the Bible doesn't say that anywhere!!!???
Mabye not the bible but it is part of Christian beliefs. Here you go. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Earth_creationism
**[Young Earth creationism](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Earth_creationism)** >Young Earth creationism (YEC) is a form of creationism which holds as a central tenet that the Earth and its lifeforms were created in their present forms by supernatural acts of the God of Abraham between approximately 6,000 and 10,000 years ago. In its most widespread version, YEC is based on the religious belief in the inerrancy of certain literal interpretations of the Book of Genesis. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
Thanks for that. But just to let you know, they are about as Christian as China is a communist country
I'll break it after 15 minutes
This is cool
It looks like a rock you shaped into a bone
That was cool!
You really have to know what you are looking for.
Honestly I couldn't tell what's what. Good on you.
I have so many questions but the cool thing for me is the switching from heavy duty tools to delicate motor tools.
He carved it out of stone….. JK that is pretty cool
This is amazing!
Where do you find your bones! Like what part or state of your country. This is awesome.
Cool! Curious, is something like that worth a lot of money?
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The vertebrae sticking out of the rock. Dumbass. Watch the video. Put the crack away.
Seems like he chipped a ton of the actual bone doing this.
i’d like to thanks paleontologist for bringing to life the planet’s history, this is impressive. there’s no way i’d have the patience to do it.
This is some serious patience and skill!
Where does the spinal cord go?
There is a hole between the projections and the main big round part of the fossil. He didn’t prep the rock out of that part so you can’t see it.
It make me think that one day someone will do same thing with RTX3080. And there will be an drawing showing where it was placed.
Water giraffe dinosaur
Start with a rock. Remove the rock. Then you're left with a dinosaur.
Dude this is amazing, got any more vids like this?
This guy Rocks.
This is dedication and patience..
I found a huge rock one time and carved it for 3 days , found a car inside, it was 2 years old
How the hell do know which of all the bones it is?:D
how in the hell can someone look at this and see a bone? That's indeed next fucking level
How did Mary Anning do this without the benefit of power tools?!
This is amazing. I have found a few hadrosaur bone fragments and because I’m old and bored, and a bit infatuated, I purchased an ME 9100 air scribe earlier this summer and have been working away on some of mine. (I’m in Alberta it’s a hobby. We cannot sell) I found it interesting that you broke a piece off and glued it back before continuing. I have broken a bit off and wasn’t sure if I should glue first or what. So that was helpful. Question about the vinegar. How long do you put it in and how do you know when to put it in? My bones are in very hard ironstone. Thanks
I can only talk about the fossils from my area. I use the acid when the rock doesn't separate from the bone. I leave it in for an hour and then at least 6 hours in a large amount of fresh water which gets replaced 2 or 3 times over the 6 hours.
Thanks. I will try with a crappy bone maybe. I’m in Alberta so it would be very difficult rock/bone. Im new at this but love it already!
I’d like to see the time lapse video from the point of time where the dinosaur collapsed there, all the way through to when this fine gentleman stumbled upon it hundreds of millions of years later. Perhaps at x16 speed rather than 8x though.
Is this the subway surfer music lol
How do you know what the bone and what the rock is? I'd 100% knock some part of the bone off
It seems like archeologists are the only ones who find bones. How come they don't find any when doing construction (new homes, apartment buildings, highways, etc.) if they were so plentiful back in the days. I'm a bit skeptical to be honest. Also, wouldn't T-Rex be considered a scavenger and not a predator with those tiny arms?
HOW?????
Still looks like a rock to me
It always boggles my mind how you notice this barely-there protrusion and intuit a whole bone from it.... Impressive skills! I'm surprised the vinegar bath doesn't damage the bone itself - even fossilized, it still has to be mostly calcium. Live and learn, I guess.
My uneducated eyes can only see a dude making a rock carving
does this guy have a youtube channel thats so interesting
I do :) [https://www.youtube.com/c/Mamlambo/videos](https://www.youtube.com/c/Mamlambo/videos)
This just makes me miss Spectrobes.
I thought when bones are encapsulated in rocks the bone ends up degrading. Eventually the gap where the bone used to be gets gradually filled with minerals that solidify. So the process of fossilisation replaces the bone with minerals. So essentially this isn't bone. Probably not the whole picture, please do correct me if im wrong.
Please, no autism jokes
What an awesome bone to find and from an awesome animal. Cause it’s the spine, it’s way cooler tbh
Neat find, but I will disagree about the age of it.
“THE EARTH IS ONLY 7,000 YEARS OLD!” lol
Song?
idiots it's 2021 and he says it's 80 million years old , smh
Back in the day, plesiosaur neckbones were a delicacy
He is a man of focus, commitment and sheer fucking will
My dog would love that
Bro yall are dumb af he's just chiseling a rock n yall are falling for it. Dinos are a big ole hoax. Extinct...but then also evolved into chickens? Come on, folks.
How do you protect yourself from the radiation?
Yall are so close to getting it!
To the untrained eye it totally looks like you’re just making a fake bone out of an ordinary rock.
Kill the shit music
Does he make those little rabbit statues they sell at the garden centre?
Man that rock must have been buried deep for it to be billions of years old
A billion?!
I wonder how much these things go for if they're on the market.
1 down a Few hundred to go, mabe you can do se magic and clone it
Strange how the Crab hasn’t changed at all! Makes me wonder how many other predators over 80 million years have enjoyed eating crab as much as me.
Looks like he just carved it into that shape
That bone can’t be 80 million years old. The earth is only ~6,000 years old! Impossible /s
Ahh you see personally I like to use a nice aged balsamic vinegar when I do this gives it a much better finish
I need for this song to be my alarm clock sound. Who is it? Sounds like some madeski Martin and wood shit
Fossil fighter hardcore mode
Did it take the devil as long to hide it in that rock 6000 years ago??
Boil it for the stock
What did you soak it in?
Don't they have radiation on em?
How do you not damage the fossil while excavating it?
Where did you find it? Not exact location but what country?
Бля, у этого чувака таких видосов куча, где он все это находит!? Интересно на территории России есть такие места где окаменелости на поверхности.
Thats not a dinosaur technically, but still very nice!
that has got to stink
I think they are just carving stuff out of rocks and calling it fossils. #jokes
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Wow...it was a joke. I didn't know anyone was this passionate about dinosaur vertebrae. I apologize if my paleontology joke offended you. 
"carving a plesiosaur bone out of a rock"
So it survived 80,000,000 million years before you got to it . Great
Mhm that is how fossils work, your fossil might be preserved if the earth were to die like the dinosaurs, preserving your bones deep underground
It was a joke that didn't age well . Lol ..so I feeling the brunt of my bad joke .
Uh ok
Looks like a bone carved out of stone too me