Archive for July 19th, 2012

The World’s Richest and Most Extensive Marine Bone Deposit

Killing Field” or “Sudden Die-Off?” In the famed Shark tooth 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. Yet, new research by a team of paleontologists from the […]