NuclearWinter
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There are pits in the heart of Los Angeles that are one of the richest sources of fossils discovered to date. More than 565 species all somehow got stuck in the tar (asphalt to be precise) over tens of thousands of years, fossilising all the time. Well, thats what the experts at the George C. Page Museum would have us believe, but they fail to explain the incredible density of animals that got stuck there.
During the first University of California excavations in 1906, they found a bed of bones which contained over seven hundred sabre-toothed tiger skulls. These combined with wolf skulls averaged twenty per cubic yard. Almost more bones than tar. They are not the bones of animals that merely got stuck and waited to die. They are broken, mashed, contorted and mixed in a most heterogeneous mass, just like in the muck of Alaska. And we mustnt overlook the fossilised birds that have been dug up, 100,000 of them, including over 138 species, 19 of which are extinct.
The George C. Page Museum suggests that the 3,000 birds that are predators and scavengers may have been attempting to feed on other trapped animals, when they themselves got stuck. As sensible as this idea sounds, it fails to explain the presence of the further 97,000 birds that were non-carnivorous. Or three species of fish!
During the first University of California excavations in 1906, they found a bed of bones which contained over seven hundred sabre-toothed tiger skulls. These combined with wolf skulls averaged twenty per cubic yard. Almost more bones than tar. They are not the bones of animals that merely got stuck and waited to die. They are broken, mashed, contorted and mixed in a most heterogeneous mass, just like in the muck of Alaska. And we mustnt overlook the fossilised birds that have been dug up, 100,000 of them, including over 138 species, 19 of which are extinct.
The George C. Page Museum suggests that the 3,000 birds that are predators and scavengers may have been attempting to feed on other trapped animals, when they themselves got stuck. As sensible as this idea sounds, it fails to explain the presence of the further 97,000 birds that were non-carnivorous. Or three species of fish!