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- The sticky stuff captured mammoths, saber-toothed cats, giant sloths and other iconic Ice Age mammals along with a near-perfect cross-section of the world they inhabited: birds, insects, plants, seeds, pollens. The fossils in the pits can tell scientists what the animals ate, what their environment looked like and what made them sicken or die.
Aug 17, 2023 · Supported by the precise dating of fossils preserved at La Brea Tar Pits, the research advances our understanding of the dynamics between dramatic environmental change, human population growth, wildfire activity, and the abrupt disappearance of Ice Age megafauna.
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Apr 29, 2024 · La Brea tar pit scientists find mammoths, saber-tooth cats, dire wolves and more in asphalt. Here's how they've uncovered fossils for over 100 years.
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- History of Rancho La Brea
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Rancho La Brea was a Mexican Land Grant of over 4,400 acres given to Antonio Jose Rocha in 1828, with the proviso that the residents of the pueblo could have access to as much asphalt as they needed for personal use. As Los Angeles grew, the Rancho was eventually subdivided and developed. Its last owner was George Allan Hancock, who recognized the ...
Between 1905 and 1915, excavation at Rancho La Brea was at its peak. Foreign and domestic institutions became interested in acquiring fossils from the area and sent individuals or crews to collect and visiting amateurs were known to take away many souvenirs. Beginning in 1907, J. Z. Gilbert, zoology teacher at Los Angeles High School, periodically ...
Future philanthropist George C. Page’s fascination with the "tar pits" brought him to Rancho La Brea to see the fossils after moving to California from Nebraska by 1917. To his disappointment, he found that the skeletons of Ice Age animals he sought were not onsite, but seven miles away at NHM. Over the course of his long business career, Page foun...
Early in 2006 the Los Angeles County Museum of Art began construction of an underground parking garage at the west end of Hancock Park. Within the confines of the future structure (~100,000 sq. ft.), 16 previously unknown asphaltic fossil deposits were discovered along with the skeleton of a near-complete Columbian mammoth. In order to hasten const...
1875: W. Denton first describes fossils from Rancho La Brea1901 : W. W. Orcutt and F. Anderson excavate at Rancho La Brea1905: J. C. Merriam from the University of California at Berkeley visits the locality and excavates1907: J. Z. Gilbert LA High School brings students to excavateNew research with an eye towards microfossils has revealed a stunning diversity and abundance of small mammals, and studies of associated sediments have uncovered new taphonomic environments that preserved clues to their behaviors and broader ecological context.
Aug 17, 2023 · A new study of the remains of animals trapped long ago in the La Brea tar pits, in what’s now Los Angeles, suggests both factors worked in concert to bring about the demise of the region’s...
Aug 18, 2023 · A new study by researchers at the La Brea Tar Pits found that large-scale wildfires sparked by human activity were the cause of the extinction of Ice Age mammals in Southern California...
Aug 17, 2023 · Predator and prey alike sink hopelessly into the muck known today as the La Brea Tar Pits. Some 13,000 years later, that sabertoothed cat’s jawbone sits in a museum drawer alongside those of a western horse, ancient bison, dire wolf, ground sloth, and yesterday’s camel.
