Uncovering the
secrets of North America's Ice Age giants
By Alex Campbell BBC News
Eighty thousand years ago the Earth began to cool,
marking the start of the last Ice Age. Experts are still discovering how the
big freeze affected the giant mammals which prowled its dramatically changing
landscape. Scientists are helping to uncover the secrets of giant Ice Age beasts
like the sabretooth cat - by foraging in crates of dirt which were collected
during the building of a car park. Wooden boxes were built around deposits of
earth in 2006 after construction workers discovered the near-complete skeleton
of a woolly mammoth while digging underground parking spaces at the Los Angeles
County Museum of Art. The 23 crates, which each have a resident
palaeontologist, and 327 buckets of fossil material are yielding vital
discoveries and are expected to take several years to examine in full
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