Sentences with phrase «tar pits of»

Jay, I appreciate your wading into the tar pits of the Amazon forum!

The tar pits of La Brea.

Despite the president's well - intentioned recommendation, the merit of testing is still questionable, as many of the students who fail are then stuck in the tar pit of drill - and - kill classes.

Not exact matches

Near the corner of Wilshire and La Brea, tourists gape at the remains of saber - toothed cats and mastodons dredged out of prehistoric tar pits.

In fact some of the evidence you didn't mention which was popular fodder in the past has already been proven incorrect (horses in the americas before the spanish, and the BofM reference to elephants) Both considered ridiculous errors by Joseph Smith until elephants appeared on ancient Mayan / Incan temples and horses from the Brea tar pits were dated before the spanish.

I've long had the sense that Msgr. Ellis's article was retrospectively misinterpreted as a relentless polemic against Catholic colleges and universities mired in the tar - pits of Neo-Scholasticism and intellectually anorexic as a result; on the contrary, it's possible to read Ellis as calling for Catholic institutions of higher learning to play to their putative strengths — the liberal arts, including most especially philosophy and theology — rather than aping the emerging American multiversity, of which the University of California at Berkeley was then considered the paradigm.

But in this case, I'll give the award to the manager who had every reason to steer the flaming bandwagon into the tar pits after a rough start, who could have buried some of his stars having miserable years, but showed a steady, consistent leadership with a minimum amount of panic.

One of the finest specimens of a Smilodon Fatalis (saber - toothed cat) from the world famous La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles.

STICKY SITUATION At the La Brea Tar Pits in today's Los Angeles, mastodons, dire wolves, saber - toothed cats and thousands of other creatures — prey and predators — were trapped and later excavated.

Males were more likely to die in natural traps such as tar pits, ice lakes, mudflows, and bogs, according to a new study in Current Biology of DNA extracted from 98 fossilized woolly mammoths found across the Siberian landscape.

Because the harsh environment destroys exposed fossils, most remains known to scientists were preserved in such traps (such as the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California, pictured above, which trapped Columbian mammoths — close relatives of their woolly cousins).

«They have evidence that hominids in Africa had already been impacting the size distribution of mammals on that continent before Homo sapiens evolved,» says paleoecologist Emily Lindsey, assistant curator and excavation site director of the La Brea Tar Pits Museum in Los Angeles, who was not involved in the study.

Specifically, after the analysis involving microscopic techniques and virtual models developed by the UA researcher, carious lesions caused by carbohydrates, present in plants, were found in the dental remains discovered at the La Brea Tar Pits site in Los Angeles, California, described by Alejandro Romero as «one of the most paradigmatic sites to study fossil mammals from the Pleistocene in North America.»

To find out whether California's tar balls had the potential to damage the Chumash's health, Sebastian Wärmländer of Stockholm University in Sweden and colleagues analysed samples taken from Californian beaches and from the La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles.

The skeleton of an adult Columbian mammoth, mired in California's La Brea tar pits for some 40,000 years, bears tusks more than 11 feet long from tooth socket to tip.

As a child, I always dreamed of visiting the tar pits in California.

Hlusko has expanded her study to look at a broad range of mammal teeth — including many dire wolves from the La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles — to see whether these two traits are independently inherited in all animals.

Although carnivorans vastly outnumber the amount of mammalian herbivorans excavated from the tar pits, no insect damage was found on their bones.

The La Brea Tar Pits have stirred the imaginations of scientists and the public alike for over a century.

Holden conducted the study with paleontologist Dr. John M. Harris, Chief Curator of the Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits, and Robert M. Timm, from Kansas University, who manages a dermestid beetle colony for research specimen preparation.

In a study published on Sept. 27 in PLOS ONE, California State Polytechnic University's Katherine Long and colleagues analyzed hundreds of S. fatalis and P. atrox bones in the La Brea Tar Pits museum.

The listing below of the world's major Lagerstätten begins with the oldest, the some billion year old Bitter Springs of Australia, and ends with the 20,000 year old La Brea Tar Pits near Los Angeles, California (USA).

Most patients today just don't like smelling like a tar pit, or hassle of applying a product that has to the potential to significantly stain bed linen or clothing.

The Ice Age is coming to an end, and the animals are delighting in their new world: a melting paradise of water parks, geysers and tar pits.

As Laura undresses, the men calmly sink into a pool of inky nothingness (I was reminded of Kurt Cobain's «I've been drawn into your magnet tar - pit trap» lyric) before their insides are violently sucked into... I du n no, a feeding tube?

This utterly formulaic throwback to the disaster movies of yesteryear is 1997's good volcano movie, the one in which a big ol' volcano pokes its nose out from the La Brea tar pits and vomits lava all over some pricy downtown Los Angeles real estate.

[Chuckles] KW: Plus, the Gulf of Mexico is going to be turned into a giant tar pit if they can't figure out a way to plug the hole.

Scholars, learning coaches, staff, family, and friends have made memories together at Logan's Candies, John's Incredible Pizza, Rubel's Castle, Poverello House, San Diego STEAM Maker Festival, LA Clippers Game, Winter Celebration, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, Aquarium of the Pacific, Downing Planetarium, La Brea Tar Pits, Spelling Bee, National School Choice Ice Cream Celebration, American Revolutionary Tour at Riley's Farm, Virtual Scholar Workshops, Scholar Clubs, and more!

Let's take nothing away from Kia's moment in the sun with its honorable quality assessment, but everything else has risen from the tar pits too — looks, performance, a luxury feel even in some of its non-luxury cars, and just as important but often overlooked, resale value.

Getting into the tar pit that is intellectual property law is far, far beyond the scope of this post.

From the La Brea Tar Pits to university laboratories to the wilds of the Angeles National Forest, Christina and her cousin River struggle against enemies seen and unseen to stop the infection before it's too late.

Yesterday I played host emcee for the Los Angeles Fall Super Adoption in the truly lovely setting of the La Brea Tar Pits Park, right next to the LA County Museum of Art.

The event, usually held twice a year at the La Brea Tar Pits, is the continuation of programming that began in 1991 with the organization of innovative model programs that provide support for area shelters and rescue groups.

NKLA Adoption Weekend, Saturday, May 2 and Sunday, May 3, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Page Museum of La Brea Tar Pits, 5801 Wilshire Boulevard.

Held at Page Museum at La Brea Tar Pits, the event is one of Best Friends» popular semi-annual «super adoptions» at cities across the country.

Game description The Ice Age is ending and our subzero heroes return in this action adventure video game set in a melting paradise of water parks, geysers and tar pits.

The image shows four silhouetted figures in front of their vehicles overlooking a bog, marsh, swamp, or tar pit (the image is dark).

Hurtado Segovia continues his use of pattern and textile influences while exploring new materials such as tar sourced from the La Brea Tar Pitar sourced from the La Brea Tar PiTar Pits.

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Other galleries present two of his most ambitious technological experiments, both made in collaboration with engineers: «Oracle (with Billy Klüver, Harold Hodges, Per Biorn, Toby Fitch, and Robert K. Moore)» (1962 — 65), a five - part sculpture that combines salvaged metal and «Mud Muse (with Frank LaHaye, Lewis Ellmore, George Carr, Jim Wilkinson, Carl Adams, and Petrie Mason Robie, 1968 — 71 3.5 tons of drillers» mud, which burbles like a primeval tar pit in syncopation with sound - activated air compressors.

Evoking Lynda Benglis «s pigmented polyurethane foam pieces from the late 1960s and 70s and Carolanna Parlato's 2010 poured paintings, Godward drips, pours and splashes skeins of brightly colored foam and paint, embedding objects in the ooze, like dinosaurs trapped in a rainbow - colored tar pit.

Towering giraffes, shot in various U.S. zoos, populate a hazy, desolate landscape created from images taken in Turkey, Bali and Iceland; spectacular Javan peacocks from Asia are camouflaged within a Spanish pepper tree; and the interior of an Icelandic volcano forms the setting for a gooey tar pit where Peruvian yellow - hooded blackbirds nest.

La Brea / Art Tips / Rat Spit / Tar Pits (1972), Raw Material with Continuous Shift — MMMM (1991) and Good Boy Bad Boy (1985), are also selected from the wider canon of hypnotic and catalogic works, a

This natural phenomenon preserved ancient fossils for thousands of years and served as inspiration for Bruce Nauman's neon sculpture La Brea / Art Tips / Rat Spit / Tar Pits (1972).

Among the fossilized remains of creatures to be found preserved in the Tar Pits underneath Los Angeles, there was a single human woman.

The casket repeats the words «Come over here, HEY» like a Disneyfied version of the LaBrea tar pits.

For his 1972 retrospective, Nauman proposed an outdoor work that would encircle the walls of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which stands adjacent to a famous prehistoric site, La Brea Tar Pits.

Later galleries present two of his most ambitious technological experiments, both made in collaboration with engineers: Oracle (with Billy Klüver, Harold Hodges, Per Biorn, Toby Fitch, and Robert K. Moore, 1962 — 65), a five - part sculpture that combines salvaged metal junkyard treasures with the most advanced wireless transistor circuitry, and Mud Muse (with Frank LaHaye, Lewis Ellmore, George Carr, Jim Wilkinson, Carl Adams, and Petrie Mason Robie, 1968 — 71), a vat of 8,000 pounds of drillers» mud, which burbles like a primeval tar pit in syncopation with sound - activated air compressors.

Tar Sands pollution has caused increased rates of cancer in native people downstream from the open pits in Northern Canada.

President Obama is in a situation right now somewhat akin to that facing the creatures that once prowled the edges of the La Brea tar pits — a sticky trap that caught and consumed the least wary or agile members of many species.