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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