This set of fossil bones occurs in a sandstone boulder on the beach
near Capitola. Frequent visitors to the beach there may recognize it as
an old friend. The photo on the left was taken in about 1975, the one
on the right in 2000. Despite the hardness of the sandstone, the ocean
is gradually wearing away the fossil. (The fossil is a cross-section
through a set of whale cervical vertebrae and is 3 to 5 million years
old.)
