Unusually Complete Whale Fossil Excavated on Gaviota Coast

Unusually Complete Whale Fossil Excavated on Gaviota Coast

After the storms from 2024 pummeled the Gaviota Coast, fossil enthusiast and geologist Chris Driesbach decided to take a trip to the beach to look for petrified wood and small rocks. Instead, he found something far bigger and unexpected. “In the winter, the beach was completely cleaned of sand . . . I was going along the beach, sat down to take a rest, looked over and there’s an entire whale just exposed in the shale,” Driesbach said in a statem…