We went fossil hunting on a Jurassic Coast beach and searched for hidden treasures nearly 180 million years old! 😱🏝️

We went fossil hunting on a Jurassic Coast beach and searched for hidden treasures nearly 180 million years old! 😱🏝️ This beach was packed with incredible Jurassic fossils, including Ammonites, Pyrite and Belemnites… but did this mystery stone have a fossil inside?! Sometimes you crack open a dream find, sometimes you get nothing — that’s fossil hunting! 🦕⚒️ Yorkshire Fossils operates in full compliance with UK fossil collecting regulations. Within SSSI-designated sites, only naturally detach This is a vertebra. It was freshly eroded onto the beach. It must have literally just tumbled out of fresh shale. Everywhere I go I know that I want to find a fossil. This is the bone itself. There's a little bit more work required. So let's jump to the finished result. Here we have the vertebra in all its glory. Fully intact. The bone fossil we found earlier was of an extinct marine reptile called an Ichthyosaur. Here is an example of some of the vertebrae, or fully prepared. Let's get a closer look. The fossil we found earlier was of an extinct marine reptile called an Ichthyosaur. Here is an example of some of the vertebrae, or fully prepared. Let's get a closer look.