See how scientists uncover 50,000-year-old fossils from California's La Brea Tar Pits where saber-tooth cats and mammoths have been found

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• Scientists have been extracting huge fossils from the La Brea tar pits since 1913.
• Many of the animals lived during the Ice Age, as far back as 50,000 years ago.
• The tar pits have preserved an entire ecosystem, from mammoths to pollen.

Tens of thousands of years ago, dire wolves hunted ground sloths and camels while herds...