Cache of Ice Age fossils found in Los Angeles
February 18, 2009 By ALICIA CHANG , AP Science Writer(AP) -- Scientists are studying a huge cache of Ice Age fossil deposits recovered near the famous La Brea Tar Pits in the heart of the nation's second-largest city.
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