For the second time in five months, construction at the Metro Purple Line extension has led to the discovery of Ice Age fossils. Experts monitoring the excavation site were able to spot what they thought was bone material within the sediment, Sotero said. According to Sotero, fossils found at the Wilshire Boulevard-La Brea Avenue station are eventually taken to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. We’ve got fossils pretty much everywhere we dig,” said Emily Lindsay, assistant curator at the La Brea Tar Pits. jeff.landa@latimes.comTwitter: @JeffLandaUPDATES:8:50 p.m.: This article was updated to add comments from an assistant curator with the La Brea Tar Pits.

Source: Los Angeles Times April 20, 2017 02:51 UTC