28 December 2009

Tar pits

Went to La Brea Tar Pits (Page museum). Bad traffic.

But nice museum. Wall of 400 wolf skulls, and there are 1200 more.

Nice skeletons, including birds. Pointed out large sternum on birds.

On the timeline, its clear that a lot of bigger mammals died out
as humans started taking off. Funny, that.

Best part for me: I found tar seeps outside of the chained in
lake, and figured out that all the seeps are in a line --just like
Hawaiin fumaroles or yellowstone geysers--- along a fault. Also
saw tar-bubbles grow and pop, which was like slow-motion mudpots.