Give up? It's a whale's ear bone. Not as complete as the one at the link, but quite good and very large. Certainly the best I've ever found. Much rarer than sharks teeth; sharks have many teeth through their lives; whales have only two ears each.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Low Tide Today!
As a result of yesterday's high wind, we had an extraordinarily low tide today. The graph below shows the predicted and recorded tide for today at Solomons Island, a few miles south. Today was almost a full foot lower than the predicted astronomical tide. The source of the graph is here, one of my favorite weather sites.
Today was a lot less windy than yesterday, but significantly colder, 35 F when we left home. As you can see, the extra low tide exposed a lot more beach than usual.
It also exposed a lot of material that is usually under water and made for pretty good fossil hunting. Georgia beat me by a lot today, getting about 20 teeth to my 7. However, I got lucky and found the fossil de jour:
Give up? It's a whale's ear bone. Not as complete as the one at the link, but quite good and very large. Certainly the best I've ever found. Much rarer than sharks teeth; sharks have many teeth through their lives; whales have only two ears each.
Give up? It's a whale's ear bone. Not as complete as the one at the link, but quite good and very large. Certainly the best I've ever found. Much rarer than sharks teeth; sharks have many teeth through their lives; whales have only two ears each.
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