Smilodon parking ONLYEver seen those cheesy “Parking for Smilodons ONLY” signs? The ones elementary school kids can hang up in their bedrooms? Well, if you haven’t, it may only be a matter of time. Construction workers toiling on a new parking structure for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art unearthed a mother lode of ice age fossils. Paleontologists and archaeologists moved swiftly to secure the prized find—expected to rival the already expansive discoveries from the neighboring La Brea tar pits—by hoisting out fossil-rich blocks of earth like shipping containers from a freighter. The hunks were transported to another museum parking lot where experts are painstakingly chipping away the detritus from the bones.
And yes, this is the third fossil story in two weeks. We can’t help our sixth-grade selves.
