We’re putting tiny ice age fossils to work to tell a story about ancient ecosystems around what is now Los Angeles, California. What did ice age food webs look like? Can we predict a species’ vulnerability to extinction? How did climate change or the extinction of ice age megafauna influence smaller mammals and plants? We hope to gain new insights on these questions and more, by investigating ...more ↓
We’re putting tiny ice age fossils to work to tell a story about ancient ecosystems around what is now Los Angeles, California. What did ice age food webs look like? Can we predict a species’ vulnerability to extinction? How did climate change or the extinction of ice age megafauna influence smaller mammals and plants? We hope to gain new insights on these questions and more, by investigating the “mouse’s eye view” of a fossil site famous for its ice age giants.
The observations in this project are of organisms, and parts of organisms, found in the asphalt at La Brea Tar Pits. Many of the images of these "microfossils" are taken under magnification to facilitate better identification.
If you're sorting microfossils as part of your classroom activity - welcome!
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La Brea Webs
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created this project on September 27, 2017
