Tag: LaBrea
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A Fossil Museum Uses the Past to Reimagine Climate’s Future
The New York Times has a story about the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum. Climate change is at the center of many of the extinctions in Earth’s past. The La Brea Tar Pit Museum in Las Angeles is researching what happened to megaspecies like mastodons, mammoths dire wolves, saber-toothed cats, giant ground sloths, and…
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PBS Eons: The Only Human Found in the La Brea Tar Pits
PBS Eons posted an episode of their podcast to Youtube. It's about the La Brea Tar Pits in Las Angeles, CA. And, the unexpected discovery of a human skeleton in the deposit. While we work on new longform YouTube episodes, we wanted to make the first episode of our podcast available here on YouTube! More…
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PBS Eons: How Plate Tectonics Transformed Los Angeles
PBS Eons has a new episode over on Youtube. This one is about the geology and paleontology of Los Angeles. Despite the profound changes we’ve made here in recent history, the epic saga of Los Angeles' natural history is still visible – and even striking – if you know where and how to look for…
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PBS Eons: Life, Sex & Death Among the Dire Wolves
There’s a new episode of PBS’s Eons. It’s about wolves and the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. This is not a Game of Thrones fan fiction episode. Dire wolves were real! And thousands of them died in the same spot in California. Their remains have taught us volumes about how they lived,…
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Friday’s Lecture: The Rancho La Brean Dire Wolf And What Its Bones Can Tell Us
ESCONI General Meeting 8:00 p.m. College of Dupage, – Tech Ed (TEC) Building, Room 1038B (Map) Speaker: Lindsey Koper. Instructor, Northern Illinois University. Topic: The Rancho La Brean Dire Wolf And What Its Bones Can Tell Us: A Brief Look Into The Life Of Canis dirus And What Became Of This Great Predator- Canis dirus, the dire wolf…
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Saber-tooth Cat Extinction
Vanderbilt University: (hat tip, Dave Carlson, ESCONI Discussion Group) In the period just before they went extinct, the American lions and saber-toothed cats that roamed North America in the late Pleistocene were living well off the fat of the land. That is the conclusion of the latest study of the microscopic wear patterns on the…
