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Visitors to the Monterey Bay beach have posted photos of the giant skull to social media.

Forrest Sheperd, who was 13 at the time, made the discovery while fossil hunting on the beaches near Santa Cruz in 2011.

A 13-year-old saw a skull protruding from a boulder. The fossil belonged to an ancient toothless walrus, Valenictus sheperdi, now named for him.

A 13-year-old saw a skull protruding from a boulder. The fossil belonged to an ancient toothless walrus, Valenictus sheperdi, now named for him.

Xenorophus sloanii was an ancient dolphin that swam the eastern waters of North America some 28 million to 30 million years ago.

One of the most striking fossils around today are the teeth and reconstructed jaws of the megalodon. The jaws of the extinct shark are so big, one or two people can stand inside them. They're relics of a dominant predator that thrived some 20 million to 3.6 million years ago, a shark species that likely munched on whales and big fish. They grew around 50 feet long, which is bigger than a city bus. What caused the demise of such a commanding creature is an ongoing investigation, but scientis...

The animals likely thrashed their heads back and forth to injure or stun prey with their unusual, horizontal teeth

The snaggletoothed cetacean used teeth projected from its snout to stun prey, much like modern sawfish do.

RIDGEVILLE, S.C. (WCBD)- Researchers in Dorchester County have found the bones of a 24-million-year-old whale. The bones are those of an Eomysticetus, an extinct ancestor of baleen whales, according to experts. A team from Palmetto Fossil Excursions unearthed the fossils earlier this month along the Chandler Bridge formation near Ridgeville. “It was extremely exciting knowing […]

The remains were found along the shoreline of Fort Funston in California.