Fossil bone bed helps reconstruct life along California's ancient coastline

Warm climate 15 million years ago led to unique bone bed of shark teeth and seal bones

		IMAGE: Teeth such as this from the extinct 40-foot-long shark Carcharocles megalodon are common in the Sharktooth Hill Bone Bed near Bakersfield, Calif., because, like modern sharks, these extinct sharks also... Click here for more information.

Berkeley — 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.