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'Like a bomb has gone off': Ancient humans may have set megafires that turned Southern California...
Live Science via Yahoo News· 9 months agoIllustration of bison entrapped in tar pit as wildfires burn. Ice-age humans may have set megafires...
Human-caused fires may have contributed to the extinction of saber-toothed cats, dire wolves, and...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 10 months agoOver 3,000 dire wolf fossils have been found at the La Brea tar pitsJae C. Hong/AP Photo The La Brea...
Species of clam thought to exist only as a fossil found alive
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA species of clam thought to exist only as a fossil has been found living off the coast of...
What was Florida like 5 million years ago? Fossil site offers ‘window into the past’
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA fossil site has offered researchers a “window into the past” by revealing what life looked like in...
'Living fossil' undetected for nearly 30,000 years found in California
The Weather Network via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIn a discovery that can only be described as a 'needle in a haystack,' a clam thought to be extinct...
Catastrophic fires 13,000 years ago drove mass extinctions — and humans may have lit the match
Salon via Yahoo News· 10 months agoPouncing Saber Tooth Getty Images/Daniel Eskridge About 13,000 years ago, flora and fauna began...
What environmental conservation looks like at America's biggest port
The Desert Sun via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn spring 2021, unauthorized operators crashed two drones in protected estuarial wetlands near...
Ice age extinction may hold lessons for current climate crisis
United Press International via Yahoo News· 10 months agoResearch from La Brea Tar Pits and Lake Elsinore has unearthed evidence of a dramatic event 13,000...
Bones, sweat and years: What it takes to dig up a dinosaur
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoPaleontologist Luis Chiappe, director of the Dinosaur Institute at the Natural History Museum of Los...
How an age of fire wiped out California’s mammoths
The Hill via Yahoo News· 10 months agoBefore the fires came, Southern California was ruled by giants. Thirteen thousand years ago, the lush coastal forest of what is now greater Los Angeles...