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A mom’s amazing fossil find has impressed online after she found a whole shark tooth in her driveway.
North Carolina mom @jessthemamamess on TikTok documented her day spent excavating fossils out of her street in a scene she described as “Jurrasic Park: Shark Streetz.”
Much to the delight of many TikTok viewers, Jess was able to find fossilized shark teeth from the comfort of her own home.
Finding a shark’s tooth in the street
Jess shared the find to TikTok on October 19 and has since gained over six million views. “Just a mom excavating shark teeth out of the streets for my five-year-old,” she wrote on screen.
She took to the street with a hammer, hitting the tooth out of the ground and sending it flying out of frame. When she picked up the tooth and showed it to the camera, it was dark and fossilized.
Shark teeth are hard to come across on beach fronts, according to fossil seekers, so Jess and her home plethora of shark teeth are in luck. In a comment, Jess confirmed that she found over a dozen more teeth in just 30 minutes, despite never finding any when she searched at the beach.
The mom confirmed that she lives near the beach and that she believes the fossils are in the ground due to the mixture of beach sedinemnt in the concrete when making the roads. “You can find shells and shark’s teeth in there,” she wrote.
Fossils can be found in concrete, depending on where the stone is from
Streets might not be lined with gold in the US. but they often are lined with fossils. Limestone, for example, is often mixed into concrete like asphalt when making roads. As a sedimentary rock made almost completely of fossils, they can reportedly sometimes still be found when mixed into concrete.
Roads aren’t the only surprising place that fossils can be found either. Researchers in Australia previously concluded that places like the Pentagon and the Empire State Building even contain fossils in the limestone used in the building materials.
Flint gravel however may be the easiest for homeowners to attempt to track down some fossils at home, without needing to use any tools.
Other homeowners share their fossil finds
In the comments of Jess’ video, many shared their own interesting finds in streets and driveways. Some of which might even be more exciting than a shark’s tooth.
“I have a gravel driveway and I have found SO many fossils of shells it’s actually crazy – I could find one in a minute easily,” wrote one user.
“I saw an Indian dollar in my driveway once then I lost it,” added another.
“Sometimes you can find decent chunks of garnet in gravel,” reads one comment.
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