Gill examines plants encased in tar pits to reconstruct ice age ecosystem

This is a reprint from the UMaine News feed ( January 23, 2017). Click here to see the original. For tens of thousands of years, the warm, sticky natural asphalt that occasionally bubbled to the Earth’s surface in the area now called Los Angeles was a death sentence for some ice age animals. Woolly mammoths, read more Gill examines plants encased in tar pits to reconstruct ice age ecosystem