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'Entire ecosystem' of fossils 8.7M years old found under Los
Angeles high school
Author : cpach
Score : 82 points
Date : 2024-10-10 12:46 UTC (10 hours ago)
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| HarHarVeryFunny wrote:
| Apparently "sabre-toothed" salmon is really a misnomer - more
| like tusked salmon.
|
| https://news.uoregon.edu/saber-no-more-giant-prehistoric-sal...
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| Another very cool fossil site in LA is the La Brea Tar Pits
| museum, which still has tar pits on the museum grounds, and has
| real sabre-tooths (lions) and other critters like mammoths that
| got trapped in the tar pits.
| anonymousiam wrote:
| (Link to the George C. Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits.)
|
| https://tarpits.org/experience-tar-pits/museum-exhibitions
| helpfulContrib wrote:
| Misnomer? I don't agree.
|
| Its definitely "a big pointy tooth dominating the mouth" kind
| of feature.
|
| Could also have been called a snaggle-tooth salmon, I guess ..
|
| In any case, definitely an interesting fish.
| hodgesrm wrote:
| The coolest and most surprising part is that the tar pits are
| still there! Apparently the seeps have been there for tens of
| thousands of years. [0] (Fun LA tourist activity: jump in
| yourself and contribute to the fossil record.)
|
| I was similarly surprised to find that something similar occurs
| on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico. This came to many people's
| attention after the Macondo well blowout. [1]
|
| [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Brea_Tar_Pits
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| [1]
| https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09670...
| teachrdan wrote:
| Fun fact: _la brea_ means "the tar", so the La Brea Tar Pits
| literally translates to "the the tar tar pits".
| envp wrote:
| Another joins the ranks of Chai Tea, Naan Bread, and Lake
| Michigan :D
| OJFord wrote:
| To be fair, 'naan bread' is like 'toona fish' or 'feta
| cheese' which AmE does in English anyway.
| SllX wrote:
| The others I knew but Lake Michigan I did not, which
| prompted me to look it up:
|
| > The name derives from a gallicized variant of the
| original Ojibwe word misikami (mishigami),[c] meaning
| "large water" or "large lake".
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan
|
| TIL. To be fair, there is a whole landmass right next to
| that _mishigami_ sharing a name we do need to distinguish
| it from.
| BobaFloutist wrote:
| It's kind of funny how much the sounds of mishigami feel
| like they could equally have come from Hebrew or
| Japanese. Interesting overlap of mouth-feel.
| conradev wrote:
| Yeah - they put cones around the park where the tar is still
| peeking through the grass. Watch your step!
| njarboe wrote:
| I quite enjoy visiting the La Brea Tar Pits and often do when
| I'm in LA. The geologist in me really enjoys seeing the
| natural oil seeps. The area around the museum has large open
| grassy areas. Often new seeps develop in the grass and you'll
| see an orange cone placed next to a new spot of oil with
| bubbles slowly growing and busting with the strong smell of
| tar/asphalt.
| jrh3 wrote:
| Tusked salmon at best.
| mtalantikite wrote:
| So you're telling me Encino Man wasn't fiction
| bloopernova wrote:
| Fun fact: in the UK, _Encino Man_ was titled _California Man_
| doodlebugging wrote:
| So if I have this right then a movie made about kids who find
| a skunk ape and take him to high school to party with them
| could be titled _Orlando Man_ here in the states but would
| end up being titled _Florida Man_ in the UK?
| bloopernova wrote:
| Now _that_ would be a fun found-footage movie.
| IncreasePosts wrote:
| That's essentially the first trailer for GTA6
| havblue wrote:
| If I remember the movie, Paulie Shore presented him as
| "Estonia Man".
| vundercind wrote:
| What's extra-goofy is I'm pretty sure Encino barely had more
| recognition in the rest of the US than it does in the UK,
| before that movie came out. Like, if not for the film, I
| expect I'd _still_ not be aware of it. So changing it for the
| UK for (presumably) reasons of familiarity doesn't make a ton
| of sense.
|
| It sounds a lot better, too. Should have kept the name.
| lenerdenator wrote:
| That, and it's really not nice to refer to a basement bar
| filled with old Sunset Strip glam metal musicians as "fossils".
| brcmthrowaway wrote:
| The Sunset Strip is really a shadow of its former self
|
| LA is dead
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