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Major Cache of Fossils Unearthed In Los Angeles
aedmunde sends along news from the LA Times: "A nearly intact mammoth, dubbed Zed, is among the remarkable discoveries near the La Brea Tar Pits. It's the largest known deposit of Pleistocene ice age fossils... in what might seem to be the unlikeliest of places — under an old May Co. parking lot in L.A.'s tony Miracle Mile shopping district. ...huge chunks of soil from the site have been removed intact and now sit in large wooden crates on the back lot... The 23 crates range... from the size of a desk to that of a small delivery truck... There were, in fact, 16 separate deposits on the site, an amount that, by her estimate, would have taken 20 years to excavate conventionally. ... Carefully identifying the edges of each deposit, her team dug trenches around them and underneath, isolating the deposits on dirt pedestals. After wrapping heavy plastic around the deposits, workers built wooden crates similar to tree boxes and lifted them out individually with a heavy crane. The biggest one weighed 123,000 pounds."
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Actually its a serious problem. That creationist stuff is a good reflection of social progress. f it keeps up, soon you will find the USA in the dark ages.
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It is worth mention that charred remains of Adolf Hitler and wife Eva Braun were buried under a parking lot by the soviets. When the East German headquarters of KGB was relocated circa 1973, the parking lot was to be demolished as well, so the russians dug up the crates and burned them, dumping the ashes into a river, nobody knows exactly where. Neo-nazi groups offer big cash reward to any person who can proof the final resting place of Hitler. Mossad says you will not be happy with that reward for long...
..because as we all learned from Bugs Bunny, "Therrr'es no La Brrrea Tarrr Pits in Scotland!". And since their find is not Scottish, it must be CRAP!
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