Bones Pulled from the La Brea Tar Pits Show Perils of Being a Picky Eater
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The reason why, argues understand what the eff ects of are the jaw bones of new research based on the La Brea past impacts of climate change have lived and died saber-toothed cats and fossils, was the coyote’s superior and human eff ects were in these Nancient coyotes that perished in the ability to adapt to a changing world. ecosystems and extract out here, or at least La Brea Tar Pits as many as 40,000 From about 15,000 to important cautionary tales and migrated through years ago. 10,000 years ago — the end lessons of relevance to conservation “The original Angelenos,” of the Pleistocene epoch — a today.” here and died here said Aisling Farrel, a collections warming climate, the increasing For example, she asked, “Did the manager at Rancho La Brea. encroachment of humans, or diets of cougars and wolves and “Everything that we have lived some combination of both led to coyotes change in a substantial — Aisling Farrel, and died here, or at least migrated a massive extinction of some of way once extinction of these other through here and died here.” North America’s largest mammals. animals occurred? And in what way collections manager Multiple species of saber- By asking how the survivors did that actually happen?” at Rancho La Brea toothed cats went extinct about responded to the loss of the With over 3.5 million fossils ‘ ’ 10,000 years ago while coyotes larger carnivores, said Vanderbilt representing more than 600 Tuesday, September 3, 2019 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY “Everything you eat is incorporated into your tissues. The great thing about teeth is that the signal is locked in at the time those teeth mineralise” — Larisa DeSantis, palaeontologist diff erent species, the La Brea Tar Pits would likely hold the answers. “If you’re going to study Pleistocene carnivores,” DeSantis said, “you go to La Brea.” An ancient tar seep in the middle of modern-day Los Angeles, the La Brea Tar Pits trapped all sorts of animals over the past 50,000 years. It’s one of the most valuable sites for palaeontologists studying EXAMINATION: A dire wolf tooth that was examined by Larisa DeSantis and her colleagues. both the causes and consequences of species extinctions. The reason for this difference plain,” said Julie Meachen, a topographic map,” DeSantis said. both saber-toothed cats and Unwitting herbivores like is that plants that grow in these palaeontologist from Des Moines Peter Ungar, a coyotes were chowing down on American bison or giant ground environments do photosynthesis University who was not involved palaeoanthropologist at the the fleshy, meaty parts of their sloths that accidentally wandered slightly differently, leading to in the research.