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'Entire ecosystem' of fossils 8.7M years old found under Los Angeles high school
- HarHarVeryFunny 2y agoApparently "sabre-toothed" salmon is really a misnomer - more like tusked salmon. https://news.uoregon.edu/saber-no-more-giant-prehistoric-salmon-had-spike-teeth https://news.uoregon.edu/saber-no-more-giant-prehistoric-sal... Another very cool fossil site in LA is the La Brea Tar Pits museum, which still has tar pits on the museum grounds, and has real sabre-tooths (lions) and other critters like mammoths that got trapped in the tar pits.
- anonymousiam 2y ago(Link to the George C. Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits.) https://tarpits.org/experience-tar-pits/museum-exhibitions https://tarpits.org/experience-tar-pits/museum-exhibitions
- helpfulContrib 2y agoMisnomer? I don't agree. Its definitely "a big pointy tooth dominating the mouth" kind of feature. Could also have been called a snaggle-tooth salmon, I guess .. In any case, definitely an interesting fish.
- hodgesrm 2y agoThe coolest and most surprising part is that the tar pits are still there! Apparently the seeps have been there for tens of thousands of years. [0] (Fun LA tourist activity: jump in yourself and contribute to the fossil record.) I was similarly surprised to find that something similar occurs on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico. This came to many people's attention after the Macondo well blowout. [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Brea_Tar_Pits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Brea_Tar_Pits [1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0967064516300935 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09670...
- teachrdan 2y agoFun fact: la brea means "the tar", so the La Brea Tar Pits literally translates to "the the tar tar pits".
- envp 2y agoAnother joins the ranks of Chai Tea, Naan Bread, and Lake Michigan :D
- OJFord 2y agoTo be fair, 'naan bread' is like 'toona fish' or 'feta cheese' which AmE does in English anyway.
- SllX 2y agoThe others I knew but Lake Michigan I did not, which prompted me to look it up: > The name derives from a gallicized variant of the original Ojibwe word ᒥᓯᑲᒥ (mishigami),[c] meaning "large water" or "large lake". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan TIL. To be fair, there is a whole landmass right next to that mishigami sharing a name we do need to distinguish it from.
- BobaFloutist 2y agoIt's kind of funny how much the sounds of mishigami feel like they could equally have come from Hebrew or Japanese. Interesting overlap of mouth-feel.
- mturmon 2y agoRelated fun fact: The actual tar pits, and the art museum adjacent to it, are basically at the intersection of La Brea Blvd. and La Cienega Blvd., which translates to: A main tourist attraction of LA is at the intersection of Tar Pits Blvd. and Swamp Blvd.
- conradev 2y agoYeah – they put cones around the park where the tar is still peeking through the grass. Watch your step!
- jrh3 2y agoTusked salmon at best.
- mtalantikite 2y agoSo you're telling me Encino Man wasn't fiction
- bloopernova 2y agoFun fact: in the UK, Encino Man was titled California Man
- doodlebugging 2y agoSo if I have this right then a movie made about kids who find a skunk ape and take him to high school to party with them could be titled Orlando Man here in the states but would end up being titled Florida Man in the UK?
- bloopernova 2y agoNow that would be a fun found-footage movie.
- IncreasePosts 2y agoThat's essentially the first trailer for GTA6
- havblue 2y agoIf I remember the movie, Paulie Shore presented him as "Estonia Man".
- vundercind 2y agoWhat’s extra-goofy is I’m pretty sure Encino barely had more recognition in the rest of the US than it does in the UK, before that movie came out. Like, if not for the film, I expect I’d still not be aware of it. So changing it for the UK for (presumably) reasons of familiarity doesn’t make a ton of sense. It sounds a lot better, too. Should have kept the name.
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- jkestner 2y agoThat’d be a hell of a magnet program.