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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2019 18:45:51 GMT -5
Wooly mammoth?
Or human.
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Post by gopherhim on Oct 24, 2019 19:18:59 GMT -5
I do know remains of one human have been found in the pits. Mammoths and mastodons have been excavated but not to the degree of the answer. Hint: there have been more excavations of predatory mammals than of prey mammals, and the answer is not CA's state fossil.
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Post by guest2 on Oct 24, 2019 20:49:05 GMT -5
I do know remains of one human have been found in the pits. Mammoths and mastodons have been excavated but not to the degree of the answer. Hint: there have been more excavations of predatory mammals than of prey mammals, and the answer is not CA's state fossil. Sabre tooth cat
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Post by mikegarrison on Oct 24, 2019 22:14:44 GMT -5
Sloth?
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Post by gopherhim on Oct 25, 2019 14:46:41 GMT -5
I do know remains of one human have been found in the pits. Mammoths and mastodons have been excavated but not to the degree of the answer. Hint: there have been more excavations of predatory mammals than of prey mammals, and the answer is not CA's state fossil. Sabre tooth cat Great guess. Smilodon fatalis (CA state fossil) is the second most common mammal excavated from La Brea and makes the tar pits the largest collection of saber-toothed cats from one site in the whole wide world. The answer is dire wolf ( Canis dirus), a direct competitor of Smilodon. The paleo field is in agreement that these large carnivores likely got trapped in the pits when they tried scavenging on herbivorous megafauna that got stuck in the asphalt. What they don't agree on yet is whether these enormous collections of carnivore fossils can be considered an indication that the dire wolf and saber-tooth were social animals like modern wolves and lions. Some think entire packs/prides may have been trapped at the same time. Others think their brain cavity size is too small (relatively) to suggest sociality. Either way, the Page Museum in LA has an epic display of dire wolf skulls and also a really silly animatronic suit of a Smilodon made by Jim Henson's Creature Shop.
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Post by Wolfgang on Oct 29, 2019 12:28:02 GMT -5
Since we're talking animals, here's an animal quiz.
Five of the following eight animals used to be on the Endangered Species list but are no longer. The other three are made up, total fabricated animals that don't exist anywhere in the world except in my own head. Identify the three fakers:
Brazilian silver-back monkey Southern white rhinoceros Arabian oryx Italian Alp Jenga American bald eagle Louisiana Greater painted pelican Stellar sea lion Northern brown kiwi
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Post by mikegarrison on Oct 29, 2019 14:38:37 GMT -5
Did you know that Stellar's Jay Steller's Jay was considered important evidence that Alaska was definitely part of North America? (Although, really, birds fly, so....) They knew the blue jay from the East Coast, and when they found the Stellar's Jay Steller's Jay in Alaska they assumed that the two places must be on the same continent. The two birds are so closely related that they interbreed, and some people dispute that they are separate species.
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Post by Wolfgang on Oct 29, 2019 14:45:50 GMT -5
I've never heard of Stellar's Jay. It's sci-fi.
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Post by gopherhim on Oct 30, 2019 19:09:51 GMT -5
The Jenga sounds cool but fake and silver-back monkey sounds like a gorilla knockoff. Is the third one stellar sea lion because it’s actually Steller?
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Post by mikegarrison on Oct 30, 2019 19:21:43 GMT -5
The Jenga sounds cool but fake and silver-back monkey sounds like a gorilla knockoff. Is the third one stellar sea lion because it’s actually Steller? Hmm. You are right. It's actually the Steller sea lion and Steller's jay.
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Post by Wolfgang on Oct 30, 2019 20:29:12 GMT -5
The Jenga sounds cool but fake and silver-back monkey sounds like a gorilla knockoff. Is the third one stellar sea lion because it’s actually Steller? LOL! re. "gorilla knockoff" Jenga is cool.
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Post by Wolfgang on Oct 30, 2019 20:33:34 GMT -5
ANSWERS
Since we're talking animals, here's an animal quiz.
Five of the following eight animals used to be on the Endangered Species list but are no longer. The other three are made up, total fabricated animals that don't exist anywhere in the world except in my own head. Identify the three fakers:
Brazilian silver-back monkey <--FAKE Southern white rhinoceros Arabian oryx Italian Alp Jenga <-- FAKE American bald eagle Louisiana Greater painted pelican <-- FAKE Stellar sea lion Northern brown kiwi
(My family used to play a card game with home-made "baseball cards" of endangered species. We got to know many of the endangered species very well. The goal was to accumulate as many cards as possible over several weeks by determining which was fake and which was real. Winners got huge prizes from me. Usually, something worth $5.00, like ice cream. Losers got nothing because, you know, losers deserve nothing. LOL!)
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Post by Wolfgang on Oct 31, 2019 13:03:06 GMT -5
The Jenga sounds cool but fake and silver-back monkey sounds like a gorilla knockoff. Is the third one stellar sea lion because it’s actually Steller? Hmm. You are right. It's actually the Steller sea lion and Steller's jay. The Jenga sounds cool but fake and silver-back monkey sounds like a gorilla knockoff. Is the third one stellar sea lion because it’s actually Steller? Nah...I either misspelled it or bad Auto-correct, likely the former.
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Post by Wolfgang on Oct 31, 2019 13:04:40 GMT -5
Relatively easy trivia for volleyball fans:
1. Who were the three coaches (head coach, two assistants) for the silver medal-winning USA women's volleyball team at the 1984 Summer Olympics?
2. Who were the starters? (Hint: Here is the roster list from the 1984 squad:
Jeanne Beauprey Carolyn Becker Linda Chisholm Rita Crockett Laurie Flachmeier Debbie Green Flo Hyman Rose Magers Kim Ruddins Julie Vollertsen Paula Weishoff Sue Woodstra)
Incidentally, I always thought Debbie Brown was a member of this team, but she wasn't. She was a member of the 1980 team for the boycotted 1980 Moscow Olympics.
3. China won the gold medal by beating USA, 3-0. Who was the star of the Chinese National team?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2019 15:25:09 GMT -5
Arie Selinger was the coach. Lang Ping was the MVP.
They couldn't very well have Debbie Brown and Debbie Green on the same team.
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