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City of Angels: 80% Complete Ice Age Mammoth Found
By Heidi Henderson | July 19th 2009 01:23 PM | 5 comments | Print | E-mail | Track Comments
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About Heidi Henderson

Chair of the Vancouver Paleontological Society. Co-author of In Search of Ancient BC, Volume I, Heartland Publishing.
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L.A. paleontologists are heading to the mall but shopping is not top of mind. Zed, a nearly complete pleistocene mammoth has been unearthed by scientists from the George C. Page Museum from fossil rich deposits in an ancient river bed below the old May Co parking lot in the upscale Miracle Mile shopping district. The massive mammoth is 80% complete and sports tusks 10-feet long.

The find has the city of angels excited as it appears to be one of the richest fossil deposits of late ice age remains. Plans are to showcase Zed to the public along with one of the most complete displays of ice age remains extracted from the Rancho La Brea Tar Pits.



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“The name signifies the beginning of a new era of research and discovery,” according to Dr. John Harris, Chief Curator, Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits. “Zed is a symbol of the potential of Project 23 to revolutionize our knowledge about this area.”

Heidi Henderson | 07/19/09 | 13:24 PM
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What were they doing and how did they find it?  It had to be pretty deep not to find it when they did the infrastructure and excavation for an entire mall, right?

Hank Campbell | 07/19/09 | 14:02 PM
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I think they were aware of it all along but the contractors were not keen on drawing attention to what was being unearthed.  The other question I would have is what the hell are they doing a massive shopping complex on a tar sand matrix. Not quite as bad as quick sand, but not a brilliant move to be sure.

Heidi Henderson | 07/19/09 | 14:20 PM
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Maybe the previous complex was built on a reinforced concrete raft foundation: no need for deep digging, so no earlier discovery.

Patrick Lockerby | 07/19/09 | 16:16 PM
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Definitely a possibility, but the Q-T is that they'd been rubbing their hands together for while anticipating the dig.

Heidi Henderson | 07/19/09 | 17:05 PM

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