Sentences with phrase «tar pit»

So next time you're looking for a large - firm lawyer, check the local tar pits.

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

The first leafcutter bees from the Pleistocene epoch have turned up in the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles.

That made Washington the La Brea Tar Pits of strategic plans: Each one sank into oblivion as its drafters moved on.

His new store in LA is not so far from the La Brea Tar Pits where prehistoric remains were famously found.

«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.

To the La Brea Tar Pits with you.

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 2000, Klapper took a break from his patients at Cedars - Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles to visit the nearby tar pits, where myriad mammals and other...

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.

On the inside, however, it's an empty chamber, its black or white walls expanding outward in all directions, its floor a kind of treacherous tar pit for any poor human soul who enters.

3) Coal Tar: I have found that not that many people may want to smell like a coal tar pit, and by using natural skin care products you will be exuding a subtle natural or even exotic fragrance, making the whole experience that much more pleasurable.

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I'm sitting in the shade of a tree watching a huge crowd of people at La Brea Tar Pits park circulate among the kennels and booths at Best Friends Super Adoption.

Cilck back to this 2011 post to see how Bloomberg's strategy fits when you consider the pipeline in broader contexts: «Can Obama Escape the Alberta Tar Pit?»

A bonus is the kids can explore the sculpture garden, run in the grass and ogle the wooly mammoth at the adjacent Tar Pits.

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.»

Perfect fossils from a smelly tar pit tell us what the saber - toothed cat looked like.

Recent forensic investigations, led by Anna R. Holden of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM) and colleagues, reveal new insights into fossilization and the prevailing climate at the Rancho La Brea Tar Pits toward the end of the last Ice Age.

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).

The museum is just a quick walk from the La Brea Tar Pits so you can easily fit in both in one afternoon.

[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.

No Canadian tar pits, no leaking Exxon Valdez, no Keystone XL pipeline, no middle - eastern terrorists getting their funding from my driving a car.

Take a walk along the world's safest beach, surf the world famous Rincon Point or explore the tide pools at Carpinteria's State Beach campground and Tar Pits Beach.

Team Bondi's sandbox perfectly captures the architecture of the period, and the layout of the city at the time, with locations such as Pershing Square, the Los Angeles Public Library, Roosevelt Hotel and the La Brea Tar Pits faithfully brought to life.

And sometimes you may throw your partner «accidently» in a large tar pit to get the coins, the characters lose on death.

Dino Run SE for Mac, Windows, and Linux features the same «prehistoric arcade» gameplay in which you «control a speedy raptor across tar pits, crumbling hillsides and meteorite showers while gobbling up anything that gets in the way for energy».

Make a date with the La Brea Tar Pits on September 21, 2 - 8 pm.

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.

Exhibitions include Tar Pits, Redling Fine Art (Los Angeles, CA, USA.

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.

For Obama, the physical tar pit lies far away in northeastern Alberta province, Canada, but a rhetorical one surrounds him in Washington as the fight to shape his position on an oil pipeline draws toward a climax.

With the economy in its own tar pit and a presidential election approaching, it's very much in the national interest for Obama to avoid saddling himself with an unnecessary issue that would be easy for his foes to distort into an Obama anti-jobs position.

Course the Labaira Tar pits show vegetation still was in that water shed.

Other participants in the study included vertebrate ecology and palaentology experts like Alejandro Pérez - Ramos, from the UMA, and researchers from the Natural History Museum and the La Brea Tar Pits Museum of Los Angeles, USA.

In 2000, Klapper took a break from his patients at Cedars - Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles to visit the nearby tar pits, where myriad mammals and other animals (SN: 5/17/14, p. 18) have been getting stuck for the last 40,000 years.

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.

Nobody wants to smell like a sulphur furnace or a coal tar pit, proclaiming disease all around themselves, by using natural skin care products you will be exuding a subtle natural or even exotic fragrance, making the whole experience much more pleasurable.

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

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.

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).

The museum recently unveiled a proposal by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor to bulldoze most of its campus and replace it with an elevated black building whose liquiform footprint rhymes with the site's prehistoric tar pits.

And like our own La Brea Tar Pits at LACMA, frankly you'll just have to dig through the muck for it.

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.

Walk over to the Tar Pits and make sure you check out Metropolis II, a must see for all, especially hot wheels fans.

But a visit to the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum introduced the orthopedic surgeon to the suffering of an extinct cat — and a scientific mystery.