Long before Los Angeles was a maze of highways and skyscrapers, it was home to mammoths, saber-toothed cats, and dire wolves. Beneath today’s city streets, the La Brea Tar Pits preserved a prehistoric ecosystem in remarkable detail, with millions of fossils frozen in time. Predators got trapped, prey piled up, and thousands of years later, miners stumbled onto the remains. Human Footprint host Shane Campbell-Staton and paleontologist Emily Lindsey uncover how a sticky patch of ground became an a
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Long before Los Angeles was a maze of highways and skyscrapers, it was home to mammoths, saber-toothed cats, and dire wolves. Beneath today’s city streets, the La Brea Tar Pits preserved a prehistoric ecosystem in remarkable detail, with millions of fossils frozen in time. Predators got trapped, prey piled up, and thousands of years later, miners stumbled onto the remains. Human Footprint host Shane Campbell-Staton and paleontologist Emily Lindsey uncover how a sticky patch of ground became an a
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