Home arrow Science arrow Dinosaurs & Fossils arrow Calif. scientists reopen Ice Age dig site
Calif. scientists reopen Ice Age dig site
AP   Friday, 30 June 2006

Volunteer Nicole Gillett cleans tar from a dire wolf leg bone excavated from the La Brea tar pits in a lab at the adjacent Page Museum in Los Angeles, Thursday, June 29, 2006. The yield of well-preserved bones, plant remnants, and microorganisms from the world's only Ice Age paleontological dig in a city has not slowed since scientists began digging there in 1915. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - Scientists went back to work Thursday at one of the world's richest Ice Age fossil sites, digging the tooth of a five-foot dire wolf and the toe of a sabertooth tiger from the sticky prehistoric asphalt near Wilshire Boulvard.


Read more...