In late January, a man walking his dog on the beach in Bay Head came up with an unusual fetch.
The German shorthaired pointer discovered a fossil of a walrus that lived at least 10,000 years ago, when the mammals were abundant on the North Atlantic coast. Bay Head is at the northern end of the Jersey Shore in Ocean County, between Mantoloking and Point Pleasant Beach.
Oyster farmer Matthew Gregg and his son marveled at the heavy object, which the dog had found atop the sand in the aftermath of a winter storm. Gregg’s son sent an email to the Edelman Fossil Park & Museum in Gloucester County, where visitors are invited to dig for dinosaur fossils in a former marl quarry…