La Brea Tar Pits

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March 29, 2014

 

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Then, [w]hen W. W. Orcutt, the original organizer of the geological department of Union Oil of California, reexamined the area in 1901, he discovered "a vast mosaic of white bones" on the surface of a pool of asphalt--the skeleton of a giant ground sloth, a huge armored animal that had been extinct for millions of years...
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As paleontologists subsequently probed the La Brea tar pits, it became obvious that the heavy asphalt had trapped numerous prehistoric animals and, more important, had then perfectly preserved their skeletons. It was perhaps the richest paleontological find ever made. (Franks and Lambert 1985, p. 3) In the early 1920s, Los Angeles was just beginning to develop into a major city thanks to its port and the rise of the Hollywood motion picture industry...
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