Episode 94: La Brea S01E01 (2021)

Today we’re returning to L.A.’s famous tar pits for the pilot episode of La Brea (2021), the timey-wimey story of a family of Los Angelinos who fall into a sinkhole in Wilshire Boulevard and somehow end up in the Pleistocene. If you love ice age megafauna, this episode is for you! The show, maybe not so much. Get in touch with us: Bluesky: @sotsapodcast.bsky.social Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: Dire wolves (Aenocyon dirus): https://tarpits.org/stories/our-evolving-understanding-dire-wolves Smilodon: https://tarpits.org/stories/smilodon-saber-tooths-and-tigersoh-my Teratornis merriami: https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/the-giant-bird.htm Megatherium: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-was-megatherium.html Marcus (1960) A Census of abundant large Pleistocene mammals from Rancho La Brea: https://web.archive.org/web/20220226104339id_/https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/partpdf/226856 Spencer et al. (2003) Taphonomic Analysis of Large Mammals Recovered from the Pleistocene Rancho La Brea Tar Seeps: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4096974.pdf La Brea Woman: http://www.laalmanac.com/history/hi02v.php