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Scientists have been extracting huge fossils from the La Brea tar pits since 1913. Many of the animals lived during the Ice Age, as far back as 50,000 years ago. The tar pits have preserved an entire ...
While the days of dire wolves and saber-toothed cats have long since passed, a new study is emerging from the sticky tar of Los Angeles, Calif.—one that is beginning to echo today's issues. This study ...
The La Brea Tar Pits are a group of natural asphalt pools in the Miracle Mile neighborhood of Los Angeles. In the middle of the nation’s second-largest city, millions of fossils of animals that were ...
Some 14,000 years ago, downtown Los Angeles was awash with dire wolves, saber-toothed cats, nearly one-ton camels and 10-foot-long ground sloths. But in the geologic blink of an eye, everything ...
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. It’s no secret that media outlets of all stripes are mulling over new distribution strategies. CNN recently began putting ...
The nature documentary series uses new research and photorealistic CGI to bring the huge, bizarre animals of the Ice Age back ...