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Keyword: paleontologogy

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  • Major cache of fossils unearthed in L.A.

    02/17/2009 10:55:33 PM PST · by smokingfrog · 45 replies · 1,668+ views
    latimes ^ | Feb. 17, 2009 | Thomas H. Maugh II
    Workers excavating an underground garage on the site of an old May Co. parking structure in Los Angeles' Hancock Park got more than just a couple hundred new parking spaces. They found the largest known cache of fossils from the last ice age, an assemblage that has flabbergasted paleontologists. Researchers from the George C. Page Museum at the La Brea tar pits have barely begun extracting the fossils from the sandy, tarry matrix of soil, but they expect the find to double the size of the museum's collection from the period, already the largest in the world. Among their finds,...