See how scientists uncover 50,000-year-old fossils from California's La Brea Tar Pits where saber-tooth cats and mammoths have been found

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The La Brea tar pits museum with tall buildings around it and a lawn in front
Located in Los Angeles, the La Brea tar pits are a piece of the ancient past stretching back 50,000 years.

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The East Coast earthquake came from a fault that's been asleep for hundreds of millions of years but suddenly reactivated

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Newark City employee Sushil Nagpal stands outside homes that were damaged and had to be evacuated after the earthquake on Friday,

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A submerged landmass near Australia could once have been home to 500,000 people

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A map showing a continental shelf in northwestern Australia, denoting areas — including an archipelago — that would have been above sea level between 70-61,000 years ago.
During lower sea levels, a vast archipelago formed on the Australian northwest coast, the scientists said.

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Dire wolves, camels, and other extinct giant mammals that used to live in North America

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Three woolly mammoths stand in a field of brownish plants in an artist rendering

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18,000-year-old stone tools are among the oldest found in the US, more evidence that humans lived in the Americas during the Ice Age

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A number of stone tools from the Rimrock Draw Rockshelter archeological site in Oregon, including tools that over 18,000 years old
Several stone tools found at the Rimrock Draw Rockshelter in Oregon, including the large orange chalcedony tool found below ash from Mt. Saint Helens.

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A gold miner found a mysterious grapefruit-sized fur ball. It turned out to be a 'perfectly preserved' 30,000-year-old squirrel.

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A stiff ball of brown fur sits in a pair of human hands wearing white surgical gloves.
This ball of brown fur and gnarled legs and claws turned out to be a mummified Arctic ground squirrel.

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