Code Black Fossils is a way to share one man’s COVID hobby turned passion (or obsession, depending on who you ask!) with the world. In addition to our free fossil ID guide, you can…
- Make this holiday season EXTRA special with our Fossil Advent Calendars
- Experience the thrill of the hunt from the comfort of your living room or classroom with our fossil dig kits
- Browse our megalodon inventory and find the meg of your dreams (prices start at just $5!)
- Check out our Bone Valley fossil series (here’s a sneak peak – coming soon)
- Make someone’s day with our holiday cards (birthday and additional holiday cards coming soon)
- Download, print, and share loads of free, educational edits from our ID guide
- Or contact us to request a custom fossil adventure!
With a wide variety of fossil experiences to choose from, you’re sure to find a unique, stimulating, and educational gift perfect for yourself or someone you love, regardless of age. Ideal for birthdays/birthday parties, date nights, classrooms, scout troop meetings, graduations, anniversaries, Mother’s/Father’s Day, Christmas/the holidays, retirement parties, or just because (!), these are gifts and experiences that will be remembered for years to come.
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Premium Pack Fossil Dig Kit
$80.00 – $110.00Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page Fossil Dig KitsThe most challenging (but rewarding!) of our fossil dig kits, each Premium Pack contains 60+ shark teeth (including at least one guaranteed megalodon fragment and collectors’ favorites sand tigers, tigers, hemis, and a hastalis); stingray teeth, barbs, and dermal denticles; burrfish mouth plates; alligator teeth; a dugong rib; pieces of turtle shell; and more, PLUS one of the following, premium fossils: over 100 total shark teeth; a whole megalodon tooth; a horse tooth; a giant armadillo scute; a glyptodont scute; or a whale inner ear bone. In addition, each kit comes with a 44 page educational booklet/ID guide LOADED with highly detailed pictures, interesting facts, maps of Florida’s ancient coastlines, a fossil specific FAQ, and more. Unique AND educational, what’s not to love?
**Optional “Add-A-Meg!” upgrade: Fortify your kit with an additional megalodon tooth for just $5, $10, $15, $20, or $30! Demo megs from each price point included in the photos.**
This is a unique, stimulating, and educational gift perfect for precocious youngsters, older kids, or adults, ideally done in a group setting with those you love most. Perfect for birthdays, holidays, summer camp, date nights, graduations, or just because.
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Shorty Pack Fossil Dig Kit
$40.00 – $70.00Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page Fossil Dig KitsShorty Packs are the perfect introduction to fossil hunting. Accessible enough for young kids while still packing some serious punch for older kids or adults, each kit comes with 30+ fossilized shark teeth (including a guaranteed megalodon fragment and collectors’ favorites sand tigers, tigers, and hemis), multiple stingray teeth and barbs, burrfish mouth plates, and pieces of turtle shell hidden in authentic Florida shell hash (small and broken seashells). In addition, each kit comes with an educational booklet/starter ID guide, with a QR code that links directly to our comprehensive ID guide LOADED with detailed pictures and interesting facts. Unique AND educational, what’s not to love?
**Optional “Add-A-Meg!” upgrade: Fortify your kit with an additional megalodon tooth for just $5, $10, $15, $20, or $30! Demo megs from each price point included in the photos.**
These are a fun and easy way to get into fossil hunting, and are perfect for birthdays, graduations, the holidays, or just because!
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25 Day Fossil Advent(ure) Calendar
Original price was: $250.00.$225.00Current price is: $225.00.Add to cart Fossil Advent CalendarsStep your holiday game up this season with an advent calendar that will be talked about for years to come!
You (or your loved ones) will be transported back in time as you take 24 (plus a bonus 25th Christmas day megalo…err, surprise!) different stops through Florida’s wild and rugged past. With a new (no duplicates!), authentic fossil(s) to find every day, this will be your most exciting holiday season yet! (Scroll to the full description if you want to spoil the surprise and see the complete list of what’s included. There’s SO much more than just shark teeth!)
Each daily fossil(s) comes with a super detailed info card tucked away neatly into that day’s box. In addition, every Advent(ure) Box comes with a booklet that welcomes you to your fossil adventure, goes over the hows, whats, wheres, and whys of the Florida fossil hunting scene, shows a couple maps of Florida’s ancient coastlines to help you visualize what conditions were like all those years ago, offers up a shark tooth ID guide to be used in this and future fossil hunting adventures, and more!
These calendars are a real treat and are a true labor of love. No detail has been overlooked – from hand clipping the corners of every single insert one at a time, to the day to day flow of the calendar itself, with numerous callbacks to previous day’s lessons.
And if 25 days is too big of a commitment…Well, don’t worry – we have a whole series of 7 day advent calendars for you to choose from! You can take a dip in Florida’s ancient seas with our Shark Attack Pack, trek through its rugged Ice Age prairies and forests with our Pleistocene Pack, and visit one of the world’s most famous fossils sites with our Bone Valley Pack.
Here’s to making 2024 the best holiday season yet.
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Lil’ Dig Stocking Stuffer
$20.00 – $50.00Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page Fossil Dig KitsLooking for the coolest gift twenty bucks will get ya? Well look no further because you just found it! Each Lil’ Dig kit comes with 20+ fossilized shark teeth (including a guaranteed megalodon fragment!), several stingray teeth and barbs, burr/pufferfish mouth plates, and a piece of turtle shell all hidden in authentic Florida shell hash (small and broken sea shells). In addition, each kit comes with an educational booklet/starter ID guide, with a QR code that links directly to a comprehensive ID guide LOADED with detailed pictures and interesting facts. Unique AND educational, what’s not to love?
**Optional “Add-A-Meg!” upgrade: Fortify your kit with an additional megalodon tooth for just $5, $10, $15, $20, or $30! Demo megs from each price point included in the photos.**
These are a fun, easy, and affordable way to get the little ones fossil hunting. Perfect for classrooms, birthday parties, scout troop meetings, as stocking stuffers, or just because!
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Shark Attack Pack 7 Day Fossil Advent(ure) Calendar
$100.00Add to cart Fossil Advent CalendarsIntroducing the Shark Attack Pack Advent(ure) Box: a themed, seven day* fossil advent calendar that will take you or your loved ones on seven different swims in prehistoric Florida’s tropical seas. Your journey will take you back from ~2.58 to ~23 million years ago, to the Miocene and Pliocene epochs, when most of Florida was covered by warm, shallow seas teeming with sharks of all different shapes and sizes: from now-extinct, 60’ long monsters with razor sharp teeth bigger than your hand to numerous smaller species that struck equal fear into the hearts of their intended prey by utilizing their own unique adaptations.
*(Don’t worry, you can open them all up at once too if you so choose – it’s your adventure, after all!)
Each daily shark tooth (often teeth!) comes with a detailed info card tucked away neatly into that day’s box. In addition, every Advent(ure) Box comes with a booklet that welcomes you to your fossil adventure, goes over the hows, whats, wheres, and whys of the Florida fossil hunting scene, shows a couple maps of Florida’s ancient coastlines to help you visualize what conditions were like all those years ago, and more!
This is a unique, educational, entirely hand-made gift that’s perfect for both kids AND adults and is sure to be remembered for years to come.
Let’s make 2024 the best holiday season yet! 🎄
*SPOILER ALERT*
Scroll away if you don’t want to know what’s inside!
Day 1: five lemon shark teeth
Day 2: five bull shark teeth
Day 3: five sand tiger shark teeth
Day 4: two hemipristis shark teeth
Day 5: one tiger shark tooth
Day 6: one hastalis shark tooth
Day 7: a shark tooth variety bag with 50+ assorted shark teeth
Day 7 bonus: a hidden golden jewelry box with a surprise megalodon tooth inside! -
Budget Megalodon Teeth
$5.00 – $35.00Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page Megalodon TeethWho says megalodon teeth have to break the bank? Not us! Whether you’re looking for the perfect necklace tooth or you want to buy a couple cheap megs for your nieces and nephews, we have a range of teeth to fit your budget.
All of our megalodon teeth come with a bonus info card (yes, even the $5 ones!) and our $20 and $30 teeth come with an optional display stand: for just $5 more you can add a handmade display stand to proudly show off your new treasure!
Authenticity guaranteed. The demo teeth were chosen to highlight the size and condition of what’s offered at each price point. The tooth you receive might not be one shown, but it will be similar (and maybe even better!). Here’s your chance to own a one of a kind piece of history!
Be sure to check out our other listings for more megalodon teeth, custom display stands, fossil dig kits, and more!
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