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Trapped In Tar And Time Summary
Maddie Elizondo Hr 5
Trapped in Tar and Time

The article, “Trapped in tar and time,” shows that while we do not know a lot about our past there is some factual evidence thats supports several theories. For example, while studying the La Brea Tar pits (The the tar tar pits) scientist were able to find a skull of a women, “This is a 9000 year old skull...studies of her skeleton show that she was 4’ 10” and was 20-25 years of age.” So make sure if you ever visit La Brea, you watch your step. There are a lot of findings with animals as well, such as “The saber tooth cat could open its jaws to allow its fangs to penetrate…” There have been over 2000 saber tooth cats found in the pits. Scientists have dug into solidified tar to recover extremely
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