Major Cache of Fossils Under Parking Garage

Not Afraid · 02-19-2009, 11:27 AM

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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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Eliza Hodgkins 1812 · 02-19-2009, 11:38 AM

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

Not Afraid · 02-19-2009, 11:42 AM

Join us at LACMA.

Eliza Hodgkins 1812 · 02-19-2009, 11:46 AM

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

Kevy Baby · 02-19-2009, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Not Afraid

I LOVE the Google Ads that appear to be "related" to this story:

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Mammoth Bones
Our Mammoth bones average 14-16 in. Covered with meat, smoked, natural.

And going to that link informs you that:

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mousepod · 02-19-2009, 01:38 PM

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

Cadaverous Pallor · 02-19-2009, 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

And going to that link informs you that:

Wait, bully sticks, as in, the things that Thurston munches on, his "cigars"?

As in, the things I have touched??

Tom · 02-19-2009, 02:04 PM

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.

Tom · 02-19-2009, 02:07 PM

A couple more fun pics from that visit:

Our niece playing with a mammoth skull.

And LSPE with a saber-tooth skull.

LSPoorEeyorick · 02-19-2009, 02:10 PM

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

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Tom Valued member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 541	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.
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Tom Valued member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 541	A couple more fun pics from that visit: Our niece playing with a mammoth skull. And LSPE with a saber-tooth skull.
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