Today we’re returning to L.A.’s famous tar pits for the pilot episode of La Brea (2021), the timey-wimey story of a family of Los Angelinos who fall into a sinkhole in Wilshire Boulevard and somehow end up in the Pleistocene. If you love ice age megafauna, this episode is for you! The show, maybe not so much.
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In this episode:
Dire wolves (Aenocyon dirus): https://tarpits.org/stories/our-evolving-understanding-dire-wolves
Smilodon: https://tarpits.org/stories/smilodon-saber-tooths-and-tigersoh-my
Teratornis merriami: https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/the-giant-bird.htm
Megatherium: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-was-megatherium.html
Marcus (1960) A Census of abundant large Pleistocene mammals from Rancho La Brea: https://web.archive.org/web/20220226104339id_/https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/partpdf/226856
Spencer et al. (2003) Taphonomic Analysis of Large Mammals Recovered from the Pleistocene Rancho La Brea Tar Seeps: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4096974.pdf
