Fossil Treasure Trove Discovered at Silicon Valley Dam Construction Site
From the San Jose Mercury News:
[Jim] Walker and construction crews building a new 220-foot-high dam at Calaveras Reservoir in the remote canyons east of Milpitas have been digging up a prehistoric treasure trove: the teeth of an extinct hippopotamus-like creature called a Desmostylus, clams, barnacles and the giant teeth from a 40-foot-long shark – and what could turn out to be an entire whale skeleton.