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BIIIIIG fossil crabs! One of my best fossil hunts

12m • Documentary • 2020

I struck it lucky today, low sand and a low tide! New parts of the beach had been exposed, rocks I had never seen before and before long I was into...

A chill fossil hunt with a cool shark find

5m • Documentary • 2022

Every now and again it's nice to just go to one of my favourite beaches for a look without expecting much.

Fossil Collection Tour - Part 1

16m • Documentary • 2025

A tour through my fossil collection before I move out of the Old School Collective

Mamlambo's Fossil Prepping Talk

59m • Documentary • 2023

This hour long video covers fossil prepping methods and a bit about how I got started in fossil prepping

Fantastic Fossil Find - Large articulated vertebrae and some acid prepping

12m • Documentary • 2020

I head out early in the morning to go explore a beach that has some really good Miocene era fossils. My first find of the day is amazing, a large c...
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Latest Finds
Latest Videos
Geology 241 Field Trip Denniston Plateau
16m • Documentary • 2026
A chill fossil hunt with a cool shark find
5m • Documentary • 2022
Agate hunting in the Hinds River - New Zealand
7m • Documentary • 2019
A mixed bag of fossils
12m • Documentary • 2023

Fossil Preps
Fossil Preps
Fossil mystery solved: I reveal what was in that 80lbs rock
5m • Documentary • 2022
Prepping a penguin, fish, turtle, and crab [current prep projects]
7m • Documentary • 2023
Mystery bone prep and identification
5m • Documentary • 2025
Fossil prep: the large, mega shark vertebrae
5m • Documentary • 2020
Fossil hunt and mystery bone prep: Cretaceous critter adventure
10m • Documentary • 2020
I found an ancient ear fossil on the beach and prepped it, also mailbag
12m • Documentary • 2022
Plesiosaurus vertebrae cluster fossil prep and fossil Christmas tree [~80 million year old find]
7m • Documentary • 2022
Fossil find and prep (kinda): Mystery fossils, fossil vertebrae and more!
15m • Documentary • 2020
Fantastic Fossil Find - Large articulated vertebrae and some acid prepping
12m • Documentary • 2020
Mystery fossil reveal - will it be a tooth, skull or a weird crab
4m • Documentary • 2024
Double fossil shark tooth find and prep
7m • Documentary • 2023
Dinosaur-aged tooth prep - is it a plesiosaur?
4m • Documentary • 2024
CRAZY weird shark tooth and a mystery fossil prep
2m • Documentary • 2020
Ammonite fossil prep and some great mailbag items from across the world
10m • Documentary • 2023
Fossil prep: suspected 19-million-year-old fossil in a very soft matrix
4m • Documentary • 2020
Fossil prep: plesiosaur bone cluster mystery
7m • Documentary • 2020
Fossil Prep: Discover what is inside a fossil crab and why it glows
5m • Documentary • 2021
GIVEAWAY & Maker's Challenge: Prepping a tiny and very difficult Pulalius vulgaris fossil crab (USA)
12m • Documentary • 2021
Fossil prep: fossil hunter discovers rare shark tooth hidden inside a rock
9m • Documentary • 2022
Prepping a mystery 12 million year old fossil bone block I found on a beach (Maker's Challenge)
11m • Documentary • 2022
Fossil prep: This large fossil shell was stuck in a clay cliff - let's see what it looks like
5m • Documentary • 2022
Golden leg fossil prep - Makers' Challenge 2023
7m • Documentary • 2023
Fossil prepping disaster
4m • Documentary • 2024
12-million-year-old fossil crab unboxed
7m • Documentary • 2019

Live Streams
Live Streams
Live Stream April 2024 - Workshop building displays
16m • Documentary • 2024
Fossil Talk feat the Fossil Penguin
23m • Documentary • 2022
The library fossil talk in 4k
23m • Documentary • 2024
Prepping a penguin, fish, turtle, and crab [current prep projects]
7m • Documentary • 2023
Moa Footprints: extended talk with Julian Thomson
10m • Documentary • 2024
Mamlambo's Fossil Prepping Talk
59m • Documentary • 2023
Largest predators in the world...EVER! Amazing Australian fossils [paleontologist Ben Francischelli]
29m • Documentary • 2023
Livestream from the Workshop Jun 2024
25m • Documentary • 2024
Live stream May 2024 from the Workshop
31m • Documentary • 2024
A look into my fossil collection
58m • Documentary • 2023
Livestream from the field (Kaikoura)
16m • Documentary • 2024
Plesiosaur fossils - peek into my dinosaur-aged, fossil bone collection from New Zealand
10m • Documentary • 2024
Fossil Collection Tour - Part 1
16m • Documentary • 2025
Workshop tour at the Old School Collective
27m • Documentary • 2024
Geoscience Society of New Zealand talk
30m • Documentary • 2024

Fossil Hunts
Fossil Hunts
River fossil hunting adventure: rare plesiosaur bone discovery and retrieval
15m • Documentary • 2020
Monster shark fossil found
9m • Documentary • 2020
Fossil hunting in the bone line - CSI edition
17m • Documentary • 2019
Mystery rare vertebra - how did it end up on this beach? [cretaceous creature]
5m • Documentary • 2023
Fossil hunt and mystery bone prep: Cretaceous critter adventure
10m • Documentary • 2020
Fossil hunting ancient storm deposits
10m • Documentary • 2021
Exploring a small creek - new fossil location
12m • Adventure • 2023
Exploring some new cliffs
9m • Documentary • 2023
My 5 most rare fossil shark finds (shark week 2022)
6m • Documentary • 2022
Exploring near Oamaru - HUGE fossil bone
7m • Documentary • 2022
Enormous fossil found in New Zealand river
8m • Documentary • 2019
CRAZY weird shark tooth and a mystery fossil prep
2m • Documentary • 2020
Big fossil bones - fossil hunting New Zealand
17m • Documentary • 2020
Australia Day 1 and 2
6m • Documentary • 2023
Bonus video Oct 2023
12m • Documentary • 2023
Beaumaris Snorkeling
4m • Documentary • 2023
A trip to Oamaru and Dunedin
7m • Documentary • 2023
A quick fossil hunt: my first fossil leaves (Fossil Road Trip Day 1)
5m • Documentary • 2020
The plesiosaur rescue bonus footage
5m • Documentary • 2024
Tooth or claw? I find an interesting fossil bone cluster with a mystery fossil inside
12m • Documentary • 2021
The fossil shark hunt with a surprise song feat Breakmaster Cylinder
10m • Documentary • 2020
Some very large bones
8m • Documentary • 2022
Sifting for fossil shark teeth in New Zealand
14m • Documentary • 2021
Return to the rock slide - fossil hunting adventure in the rain and cold
17m • Documentary • 2020
Pelagornis (bony tooth bird) bonus footage
4m • Documentary • 2023
40lbs Jasper from a river in North Canterbury, New Zealand
8m • Documentary • 2022
35-million-year-old fossils in a New Zealand mountain stream
2m • Documentary • 2020
Part 1: Retrieving a large chunk of petrified wood - a challenging fossil hunt
8m • Documentary • 2020
Part 2: Retrieving the Petrified Wood Tree Stump - Fossil adventure in New Zealand
8m • Documentary • 2020
Mystery fossil: I might have found another rare fossil
8m • Documentary • 2022
Mystery bone cluster in the clay - hopefully it's something like a skull [ancient seabed fossils]
10m • Documentary • 2022
Mysterious bone cluster found - fossil hunting on the South Island, NZ
20m • Documentary • 2019
My first ever double fossil crab! Fossil hunting in New Zealand
13m • Documentary • 2022
My BIGGEST vertebrae yet! Fossil hunting a new spot in a remote corner of New Zealand
18m • Documentary • 2021
My BIGGEST fossil shark tooth find, a beautiful crab and bonus fossil prep time-lapse
16m • Documentary • 2019
Miocene fossil shark teeth and a one-handed prep - broken hand fossil hunt series
17m • Documentary • 2020
Leopard seals, fossil shark teeth and a mystery fossil
14m • Documentary • 2021
Late night fossil hunt - fetching the holey rock and finding a fossil crab
11m • Documentary • 2020
Fossil whale and dolphin bones - bonus seal show! Fossil hunting on a New Zealand beach
10m • Documentary • 2019
Fossil skull! Race against the tide to retrieve part of the fossil skull before it gets covered
15m • Documentary • 2021
Fossil skull found - fossil hunting at Motunau Beach
11m • Documentary • 2019
Fossil shark teeth hunt - I find a tooth from the Megalodon's Cretaceous ancestor
11m • Documentary • 2020
Fossil prep: fossil hunter discovers rare shark tooth hidden inside a rock
9m • Documentary • 2022
Fossil hunting: 2 days of shark vertebrae, bone clusters and a mystery fossil
24m • Documentary • 2020
Fossil hunting on the beach: I find some cool treasures washed up on the rocks
6m • Documentary • 2023
Fossil hunting on a remote New Zealand beach
9m • Documentary • 2019
A chill fossil hunt with a cool shark find
5m • Documentary • 2022
A mixed bag of fossils
12m • Documentary • 2023
BIIIIIG fossil crabs! One of my best fossil hunts
12m • Documentary • 2020
Bonus Fossil Hunt Sep 2024
14m • Documentary • 2024
Crab fossil hunt
8m • Documentary • 2023
Cutest little fossil crab
10m • Documentary • 2022
Digging a 100lbs fossil concretion out of a cliff... guess what is inside!
2m • Documentary • 2019
Double fossil shark tooth find and prep
7m • Documentary • 2023
Exploring a new area for fossils with a bonus sheep rescue
10m • Documentary • 2020
Fantastic Fossil Find - Large articulated vertebrae and some acid prepping
12m • Documentary • 2020
Fossil find and prep (kinda): Mystery fossils, fossil vertebrae and more!
15m • Documentary • 2020
Mystery fossil crab and another part of the whale skull jigsaw puzzle - fossil hunting New Zealand
18m • Documentary • 2021
Fossil hunt adventure - I go back to where I found the whale skull to find some Miocene fossils
7m • Documentary • 2020
Fossil hunting New Zealand: a chilled hunt with some cool fossils
12m • Documentary • 2020
Fossil hunting a new area: crabs and some great shells
10m • Documentary • 2020
Fossil hunting adventure: interesting bone clusters, cetacean bone and more
10m • Documentary • 2020
Fossil hunting and beachcombing Canterbury, New Zealand
2m • Documentary • 2019
Fossil hunting in New Zealand - forams under the new microscope (microfossils)
10m • Documentary • 2022
Fossil hunting on a beach - I find and polish a broken fossil crab [calcite veins]
12m • Documentary • 2023
Mystery fossil reveal - will it be a tooth, skull or a weird crab
4m • Documentary • 2024
Arlong's nose as a fossil - a rare sawshark rostrum with teeth and cartilage
6m • Documentary • 2023

Mamlambo University
Mamlambo University
The moa dig - bonus video
16m • Documentary • 2024
Geology 240 field trip
6m • Documentary • 2024
St Bathans Fossil Trip
6m • Documentary • 2024
Geology 241 Field Trip Denniston Plateau
16m • Documentary • 2026

Other Videos
Other Videos
Exploring the West Coast [2023]
15m • Documentary • 2023
The plesiosaur rescue bonus footage
5m • Documentary • 2024
Road trip - Bonus Feb 2024
13m • Documentary • 2024
Edoras bonus footage
18m • Documentary • 2026
Fiji footage, Saddam tells a story
10m • Documentary • 2023
Fossil cards
4m • Documentary • 2023
The workshop - before it started
4m • Documentary • 2024
Māori rock shelter with some fossils
4m • Documentary • 2024
Agate hunting in the Hinds River - New Zealand
7m • Documentary • 2019
Fossil crab giveaway winner announcement
4m • Documentary • 2020
Ashburton Agate hunting: Rockhounding adventure near the Rangitata river
7m • Documentary • 2019
Cutting some agates and petrified wood (New Zealand rockhounding)
10m • Documentary • 2022
Rusty Hammer Restoration
4m • Documentary • 2019
Mamlambo Fossil 100k subscriber giveaway [prep your own fossils]
4m • Documentary • 2023
12-million-year-old fossil crab unboxed
7m • Documentary • 2019
Rare obsidian Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton at Auckland Museum and comparison to a Moa
5m • Documentary • 2022
Pyritized fossil crab 3D model creation (MagicSwift Plus 3D scanner)
6m • Documentary • 2023
Neutron scan of fossil rock reveals hidden teeth [x-ray on steroids]
5m • Documentary • 2023
Moa (extinct bird) skull 3D reference print - should I print the whole moa? [Ender 3 V2 Neo print]
2m • Documentary • 2023
Lapidary Club Display
3m • doc • 2025
Fossil replica: How to make your very own high-quality fossil crab (3D printing, 3D scanning)
5m • Documentary • 2022
Fossil mailbag December 2022
9m • Documentary • 2022
Cave trip
8m • Documentary • 2023
CT scan data
23m • Documentary • 2023
Rarotonga trip Oct 2024
16m • Documentary • 2024
How much do I earn from my YouTube channel [actual amount revealed]
7m • Documentary • 2022
40lbs Jasper from a river in North Canterbury, New Zealand
8m • Documentary • 2022
Fossil 3D scanning - how to make a 3D model in 15 minutes [3Dmakerpro Seal]
10m • Documentary • 2023
Let's build a extinct bird - and a HUGE announcement!
6m • Documentary • 2024
A bit of bonus footage of the fish skull CT scan
2m • Documentary • 2024
Campbell talks pounamu
9m • Documentary • 2025
CMLC Display
3m • Documentary • 2025
Kaikoura Nature - Dolphins and Seals
5m • Documentary • 2025