1.   Lake beds are thought to be the most likely source of fossils.

2.   Where nutrients are plentiful, productivity is high, production far outstrips Decomposition, and organic sediments accumulate on the lake beds.

3.   Young men souped up their vehicles and raced along the dry lake beds around Los Angeles.

4.   Alvarez turned to see the buck coming up out of the lake bed and managed to get off a shot before it disappeared.

5.   A few miles away, headstones of stone, wood and cement are jumbled together, sometimes at bizarre angles as they rise from freshly exposed lake bed.

6.   A dry lake bed, Groom Lake, provides expansive takeoff and landing room.

7.   Composed of boron, sodium, oxygen and water, borax is found in dry lake beds.

8.   Dry lake beds offer the most tantalizing possibility of all.

9.   Divers have recovered artifacts from ancient towns that once existed on what is now the lake bed.

10.   Eroded hills are the remains of what was once a lake bed in Death Valley.