The following article is from the book Uncle John'...  ...the Pleistocene? Yeah, us either. Read on. FANCY TAR ?Hancock Park, an affluent area of Los Angeles, is...  ...ns of specimens that have been excavated from the La Brea tar pits . Located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mil...  ...ed on Wilshire Boul...

Pictured above is a recreation of Smilodon fatalis...  ...big extinct mammals whose bones are found in the La Brea tar pits . Not fossils -millions of actual bones that have...  ...change and hungry, hungry humans. Today, only the latter two mechanisms are taken seriously, but exactly h...  ...he future of life...