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LOS ANGELES — Scientists are studying a huge cache of ice-age fossil deposits recovered near the famous La Brea Tar Pits.
Among the finds is a near-intact mammoth skeleton, a skull of an American lion and bones of saber- toothed cats, dire wolves, bison, horses and ground sloths.
Researchers discovered 16 fossil deposits under an old parking lot next to the tar pits in 2006 and began sifting through them last summer. The mammoth remains, including 10-foot-long tusks, were in an ancient riverbed near the fossil cache.
