Wednesday, 18. February 2009
Topic: SCIENCE - on February 18, 2009 at 3:35:00 PM CET
Major cache of fossils unearthed in L.A.
A nearly intact mammoth, dubbed Zed, is among the remarkable discoveries near the La Brea tar pits. It's the largest known repository of Pleistocene ice age fossils.
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.
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