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☆ 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
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-27 | by ( Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Scientists have been extracting huge fossils from the La Brea tar pits since 1913. The tar pits have preserved an entire ecosystem, from mammoths to pollen. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Since 1913, scientists have been pulling bones and other fossils out of the La Brea tar pits. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

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☆ Every TV show ending in 2024, from 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' to 'Yellowstone'
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-16 | by ( Ayomikun Adekaiyero | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

9 TV shows aired their final episodes this year, including "Curb Your Enthusiasm," which premiered in 2000. Meanwhile, long-running shows including "Magnum P.I.," "La Brea," and "Good Trouble" have also come to a premature end. Other series like "Bob Hearts Abishola" and "S.W.A.T" were affected by TV networks' budget cuts. This may have had a ripple effect, with streamers and TV networks canceling or reducing their shows to make up for the losses of the last year. Here's what to know about all the TV series that have been canceled or are scheduled to end this year.

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☆ Dire wolves, camels, and other extinct giant mammals that used to live in North America
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

North America used to be crawling with giant mammals, from dire wolves to big cats. In North America, "you only get the woolly mammoths up in the north, starting around the Great Lakes," Lindsey said. AdvertisementOnce thought to be the cousins of gray wolves, dire wolves evolved separately over 5 million years ago in North America. AdvertisementThe ancient bison, Bison antiquus, was 25% larger than those living today. A recent study suggested modern bison — Bison biso — evolved from this species.

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☆ Human-caused fires may have contributed to the extinction of saber-toothed cats, dire wolves, and other animals 13,000 years ago
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-18 | by ( Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

The La Brea tar pits captured dire wolves, sabertooth cats, and other megafaunal for millennia. Statues of megafaunal mammals give La Brea Tar Pit visitors a sense of what animals roamed the area thousands of years ago. The loss of herbivores at La Brea could've contributed to a feedback loop, making fires — however, they started — more intense, the paper's authors say. Paelongotolist MacPhee cautions that there could be other explanations for why these animals in the 61/67 tar pits stopped appearing. Excavation of the La Brea tar pits has yielded hundreds of thousands of fossils.

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☆ What the Hollywood writers' strike could mean for your favorite TV shows, from 'Abbot Elementary' to 'Saturday Night Live'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Topical shows relying on actively scripted material, including late night, will be the most immediately affected. The strike — which was authorized by nearly 98% of Writers Guild of America members who voted last month — will most immediately impact shows that rely on active writers' rooms working on current material, including "Saturday Night Live" and late night shows. The moment may be an opportunity for reality TV producers as well as non-union productions. Some celebrities on shows likely to be impacted have addressed the possibility of the impending strike on the late night circuit. Davidson acknowledged a writer's strike might mean his "SNL" episode doesn't happen as planned and said he gained a new perspective working on the production as a prospective host.

☆ How 4 million fossils are excavated from La Brea Tar Pits
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-02 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Excavators at the La Brea Tar Pits pull, clean, and prepare fossils for research. With 4 million specimens already in the collection, why keep excavating after more than 100 years? With 4 million specimens already in the collection, why keep excavating after more than 100 years? The La Brea Tar Pits is one of the only pale ontological sites on Earth that has preserved an entire ecosystem over time, from plants to camels to bugs. We went to the La Brea Tar Pits to see how specimens are discovered, cleaned, and pieced together to build a record of the last 50,000 years.

☆ Geopolitica speculativă. Op-Ed de Victor Pelin
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-24 | by ( ) www.ipn.md time to read: +7 min

Op-Ed de Victor Pelin„Cea mai recentă dovadă a manipulării servește răspândirea neadevărurilor despre așa-zisa geopolitică a vaccinurilor din Republica Moldova...”1. De aceea, odată cu apropierea alegerilor, aceștia lansează discursuri despre geopolitică. De aici concluzia, că în calitate de punte între Est și Vest , Republica Moldova și-ar consolida statutul de neutralitate permanentă . Totuși, trebuie să recunoaștem că imprimarea de către liderul PSRM a conotațiilor geopolitice pentru utilizarea produselor farmaceutice conține un potențial imens de contraofensivă pentru oponenții săi. Cea mai recentă dovadă a manipulării servește răspândirea neadevărurilor despre așa-zisa geopolitică a vaccinurilor din Republica Moldova.

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☆ (foto) Dansuri în făină: Portrete explozive surprinse în mișcare
▼ + stars: | 2015-06-05 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: 1 min

Fotograful Alexandr Yakovlev a realizat un proiect exploziv, făcând ca mișcările dansatorilor să reînvie dintr-o cu totul altă fațetă, demonstrând un joc al făinii. Fotografiile sale captează diverse stiluri de dans, de la balet la break-dance, dar ideea sa de a surprinde momentul potrivit în care dansatorul se află în unison cu făina creează un efect deosebit. În lucrările sale avem ocazia să admirăm structura corpului unui dansator profesionist, antrenat, tonifiat și sculptat, putem observa mușchii reliefați, forța și energia transmisă prin dans. Alexandr Yakovlev poate fi găsit pe Facebook, Instagram și site-ul său oficial. Mai jos puteți să admirați pozele fotografului Alexandr Yakovlev:

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