Scientists have discovered a previously unknown extinct toad species hidden for nearly a century inside the collections of Los Angeles’ famous La Brea Tar Pits. The tiny amphibian, named Spea labreae after the tar pits, represents the first extinct Ice Age amphibian ever identified from Los Angeles and only the second known extinct Pleistocene amphibian from North … [Read more...] about Extinct toad from the ice age discovered at Los Angeles’ La Brea Tar Pits
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Gold Miners Found a Perfectly Preserved Baby Woolly Mammoth — and Nearly Lost Her an Hour Later
On June 21, 2022 — National Indigenous Peoples Day in the Yukon — a miner running a front loader through permafrost muck in Canada's Klondike gold fields hit something that wasn't gold. He stopped immediately and called his boss. A Discovery Made in the Nick of Time Treadstone Mining owner Brian McCaughan took one look and shut down the entire operation. The frozen animal … [Read more...] about Gold Miners Found a Perfectly Preserved Baby Woolly Mammoth — and Nearly Lost Her an Hour Later