july 4 earthquake
![Russell Shapiro poses with the found 15-million-year-old whale vertebrae fossil in Simi Valley.](https://today.csuchico.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Russell-Shapiro-Simi-Valley-whale-fossil-15-mil-yo.jpg )
No Bones About It: Fossil Find a Whale of a Mystery
Geological and environmental sciences professors Russell Shapiro and Todd Greene were called to collect mysterious 15-million-year-old fossils unearthed by an earthquake that rocked the Mojave Desert on July 4, 2019.