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Labrea Tar Traps
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During the period between 1913 and 1915, more than one million bones from animals such as mastodons, mammoths, North American lions, and saber-toothed cats were excavated in as many as one hundred tar pits. Some of these tar pits were buried beneath ponds and other structures. At this time, the bone seekers favored large, complete bones, but often didn't document information about the location and direction of those bones within the remains. In many cases, these paleontologists overlooked the remnants of small vertebrates and invertebrates. Over forty-thousand specimens have been uncovered between the years of 1969 and 1980; unlike the previous excavating in years before, these samples have been identified and cataloged in an electronic dat
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