Fossil bone bed helps reconstruct life along California's ancient coastline
Monday, June 8, 2009 - 11:49
in Paleontology & Archaeology
In the famed Sharktooth Hill Bone Bed near Bakersfield, Calif., shark teeth as big as a hand and weighing a pound each, intermixed with copious bones from extinct seals and whales, seem to tell of a 15-million-year-old killing ground.
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