BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — For decades, kids and adults alike have watched “Shark Week,” the week-long feature on the fish that have commanded the oceans since time immemorial. But what you may not know is that the king of the sharks might’ve swam down Chester Avenue millions of years ago.
It probably didn’t follow traffic laws, of course. At that time, Bakersfield was completely submerged underwater, part of the grand Pacific Ocean.
But as the megalodon shark died out and the oceans receded to their current resting places, the sharks that swam up and down the streets of Bakersfield left remnants all over, particularly the now world famous Sharktooth Hill — leaving teeth from the granddaddy of them all…