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Celebrating a Century of Fossil Finds In the La Brea Tar Pits
An anonymous reader writes "A century ago on Monday, the predecessor to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County began a two-year project to uncover the Ice Age creatures that became trapped in the La Brea Tar Pits. 'Digs over the years have unearthed bones of mammoths, mastodons, saber-toothed cats, dire wolves and other unsuspecting Ice Age creatures that became trapped in ponds of sticky asphalt. But it's the smaller discoveries — plants, insects and rodents — in recent years that are shaping scientists' views of life in the region 11,000 to 50,000 years ago.'"
Can someone please define a year for me? Because I think I'm missing something. I thought a year was supposed to be the time it takes for a celestial body to complete 1 revolution around a sun in a solar system. You people seem to define a year as taking 31,558,150 SI seconds.
As it so happens, a year in our solar system alone varies from 88 earth days to 250 earth years. But hey - let's not let facts get in the way of a good strawman.
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