Fossil Hunting in Venice Beach

On July 14th we needed a little adventure so we packed the car with SCUBA gear and headed to Sharky's Pier in Venice. Today's mission was to find some Megalodon Teeth buried in the sand for millions of years. Visibility was nonexistent but then again you can't see through sand anyway so off we went. We didn't find any megalodon teeth but we did find several fossilized carcharidon teeth and the crown jewel for this trip...a fossilized dugong rib. For those who don't know, the Dugong is a relative of the manatee who's habitat existed in North American during the Eocene period. Today they are only found off Australia.

Photoshop can make any beach beautiful!

what it actually looked like that day as we prepared to dive!

this guy pinched my fingers and almost gave me a heart attack since I couldn't see what grabbed me.

the day's treasures,
the long fossil at the bottom is the dugong rib.