Major Cache of Fossils Under Parking Garage

[Not Afraid]

Story (http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-fossils18-2009feb18,0,7775847.story)

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....................

Among their finds, to be formally announced today, is the nearly intact skeleton of a Columbian mammoth -- named Zed by researchers -- a prize discovery because only bits and pieces of mammoths had previously been found in the tar pits.

I'm going to LACMA on Sunday. I may have to investigate (although I doubt the public has access).


I LOVE the Google Ads that appear to be "related" to this story:
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Our Mammoth bones average 14-16 in. Coverd with meat, smoked, natural.

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Oooooh. I'll be in the hood on Sunday; may check this out as well. COOL!

[Not Afraid]

Join us at LACMA.

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Perhaps for brunch or lunch before you go? I've seen their current exhibitions not too long ago.

[Kevy Baby]

I LOVE the Google Ads that appear to be "related" to this story:Mammoth Bones (http://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/iclk?sa=l&ai=BMuRK8aGdSZ7wB5P6rAOdv72IB5qnZZKIrALAjbcBgPEEEA IYAiCo8aEGKAM4AFCr1tCNB2DJ3uaGyKOQGbIBD3d3dy5sYXRp bWVzLmNvbcgBAdoBTmh0dHA6Ly93d3cubGF0aW1lcy5jb20vbm V3cy9zY2llbmNlL2xhLXNjaS1mb3NzaWxzMTgtMjAwOWZlYjE4 LDAsNzc3NTg0Ny5zdG9yeagDAegDuAPoA90E6AOxA-gDQvUDAAAABPUDBAAAAJgEAA&num=2&adurl=http://www.bullysticks.com&client=ca-tribune_news3_html)
Our Mammoth bones average 14-16 in. Covered with meat, smoked, natural. And going to that link informs you that:

Bully Sticks are 100% Bull penises

[mousepod]

The new Hancock Park slogan: "They moved the cemetery...but they left the bodies!"

[Cadaverous Pallor]

And going to that link informs you that:Wait, bully sticks, as in, the things that Thurston munches on, his "cigars"? :eek: As in, the things I have touched??

[Tom]

My mom volunteers at the Page (Tar Pits) Museum, the bones' new home, so we've heard much about this already. Unfortunately, there isn't much to see at this point. Just blocks of asphalt sitting in crates until volunteers are able to excavate the bones from them. The first few bones are being worked on and can be seen inside the museum.

What is truly amazing is that these finds are going to double the museum's collection. My mom has given our out-of-town guests behind-the-scenes tours of the museum on several occasions, and the amount of bones they had in storage already was mind-boggling.

Here are some photos from their storage area from the visit of Heidi's sister and brother in-law, with nieces and nephews, from last year. There are a number of those aisles you see in the pictures, and each and every one of those trays is filled with bones. And this was before the new discoveries.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/powerswaterworks/bones1a.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/powerswaterworks/bones2.jpg

[Tom]

A couple more fun pics from that visit:

Our niece playing with a mammoth skull.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/powerswaterworks/bones3.jpg


And LSPE with a saber-tooth skull.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v379/powerswaterworks/bones4.jpg

[LSPoorEeyorick]

We should definitely organize a behind-the-scenes swanking at the Page. We've been talking about it for some time!

[Mousey Girl]

We should definitely organize a behind-the-scenes swanking at the Page. We've been talking about it for some time!

The Boy would LOVE that. He has been begging me to take him back there since we went the last time.

May I make a request for the 2nd or 4th weekend of any month??

[Ghoulish Delight]

Wait, bully sticks, as in, the things that Thurston munches on, his "cigars"? :eek: As in, the things I have touched??
Haha, you never knew that?!

[Snowflake]

We should definitely organize a behind-the-scenes swanking at the Page. We've been talking about it for some time!

Awesome!

[alphabassettgrrl]

Awesome!!! I've never been to the tarpits museum.

Mammoth bones- those are the ones I get for the dog. I won't get her pig ears nor the bully sticks. Those gross me out.

[Not Afraid]

Thurston LOVES Bully sticks and chews on them regularly. I've known what they were for a long time, but I don't think I ever shared that with Chris (for obvious reasons). Personally, I'm not sure why what a Bully Stick is is any more disgusting than any other animal part dogs like to chew on (or what is ground up and put in commercial dog food). But, I pick up poop for a living, so who am I to have a sense of normal?

[alphabassettgrrl]

It's not my dog's sensibilities I'm concerned about, and I'm not entirely sure why bully sticks creep me out. But they do.

[RStar]

We should definitely organize a behind-the-scenes swanking at the Page. We've been talking about it for some time!

Sounds like a great idea to me! :D :cool:

[€uroMeinke]

Better he chews on those than something else...

[BarTopDancer]

I love the tar pits.

This discovery is so exciting. I can't wait to see how it all comes together.

I'd totally be up for a behind the scenes swanking.

[Deebs]

Wait, bully sticks, as in, the things that Thurston munches on, his "cigars"? :eek: As in, the things I have touched??



I didn't know either, Caddie. :blush: And I have given them to my dog in the past. He seemed to enjoy them, but he's also been known to dig cat poop out of the litter box. He's not very discerning.

I've never been to the tar pits before. I'd love to go.

[Kevy Baby]

...but he's also been known to dig cat poop out of the litter box. He's not very discerning.

I've never been to the tar pits before. I'd love to go.Apparently, Thurston has been to the tar pits.

[Prudence]

I wanna go! (But I'm not sure when I'll be done with the weekly "excursions")

[Gn2Dlnd]

This cracks me up:Bully Sticks are 100% Bull penises... We never try to hide what they are by giving them little cute names. Except, of course, for calling them "Bully Sticks." :rolleyes:

Bully Sticks, Teddy Brewster approved!

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Visual Arsenic and Old Lace Mojo for the Cheeseman!

[Betty]

I think the plural of penis should be peni.

[JWBear]

Technically, it's "penes".

[Not Afraid]

Technically, it's "penes".

That sounds so small.