Big Cats Once Lived in L.A.
11/07/2013
Scientists search through fossils in Los Angeles.
Hello again, and welcome. I’m Jim Tedder in Washington. Today we take you to a very, very busy place in one of America’s largest cities. There we will find scientists down on their hands and knees looking for unusual creatures from the distant past.
Then Steve Ember comes by to talk about a subject that nearly everyone loves …photography. Today we will hear about an effort to save some early pictures from being destroyed by time.
So relax and listen carefully, as you learn and improve your English with As It Is, on VOA.
Creatures such as fierce-looking saber toothed cats once lived in what is now the second largest city in the United States. The animals’ ancient remains are still being found at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California, a century after scientists first began their digging. Today, scientists from all over the world are examining some of these fossils for clues about climate change.
Tall buildings and traffic in the heart of Los Angeles surround pools of thick, gooey tar. Scientists come there to unearth animal remains under the bubbling material.
Shelley Cox praises the chance to work with these fossils. To her, they are treasure.
“I get excited about a mouse toe!”
Shelley Cox cleans the fossils in a laboratory called the Fish Bowl. It is in the George C. Page Museum in Los Angeles, which houses fossils of animals and plants trapped and preserved by the tar at the La Brea Tar Pits. Some of the remains are more than 40 thousand years old.
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