La Brea Tar Pit Riker Box Specimens Type:La Brea Specimen 000 years ago so colors

000 years ago so colors and size will vary

This specimen is a fragment of a high-pressure compressor vane taken from the jet engine of the Concorde

It is more likely the large beak was used to tear apart dense plant matter and break open nuts rather than to consume small mammals

American Museum of Natural History "Fossiliferous Cretaceous Amber from Myanmar (Burma): Its Rediscovery

where it became a defensible stronghold for the rest of his reign

La Brea Tar Pit Riker Box Specimens Type:La Brea Specimen 000 years ago so colorsAbove: The front of the Specimen Card for the Tar Pit Specimen. (Source: Smilodon californicus and Canis dirus fight over a Mammuthus columbi carcass in the La Brea Tar Pits, Robert Bruce Horsfall, 1913) The La Brea Tar Pits are among the most well known petroleum seeps in the world. Over millennia, such seeps can become lake like formations and trap unwary wildlife. Excavated animal remains at La Brea comprise nearly 700 different species, some