Episode 94: La Brea S01E01 (2021)

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)

• Smilodon

• Teratornis merriami

• Megatherium

• Marcus (1960) A Census of abundant large Pleistocene mammals from Rancho La Brea

• Spencer et al. (2003) Taphonomic Analysis of Large Mammals Recovered from the Pleistocene Rancho La Brea Tar Seeps

• La Brea Woman