Mammoth skeleton found nearly intact in Los Angeles By Dan Whitcomb Dan Whitcomb Fri Feb 20, 10:54 am ET LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The nearly complete skeleton of a massive Columbian mammoth who died during the last ice age has been dug out of a construction site near the La Brea Tar Pits in downtown [...]
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20 Feb
Cache of Ice Age fossils found in Los Angeles
By ALICIA CHANG, AP Science Writer Alicia Chang, Ap Science Writer – Wed Feb 18, 8:00 pm ET AP – Volunteer Meganne Macias works on the giant pelvis of a well preserved Colombian mammoth fossil named … LOS ANGELES – Scientists are studying a huge cache of Ice Age fossil deposits recovered near the famous La Brea Tar Pits in the heart [...]
13 Feb
Oh, and that kidnapped girl……
February 28, 1947 Oh, and that kidnapped girl… February 28, 1947 near Long Beach ’tis the season for faked abductions, with yesterday’s nude 17-year-old found bound in her underpants with a cigarette burn on her wrist confessing to police that she had “dreamed up” the sinister man who attacked her, and had tied and injured [...]