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Date: Tuesday Feb. 17, 2009 7:33 PM ET
LOS ANGELES — Scientists are studying a huge cache of Ice Age fossil deposits recovered near Los Angeles' famous La Brea Tar Pits.
Among the finds is a near-intact mammoth skeleton and bones of sabre-toothed cats, dire wolves, bisons, horses, ground sloths and other mammals.
Researchers discovered 16 fossil deposits under an old parking lot next to the tar pits in 2006 and began sifting through them last summer.
Officials of the Page Museum at the tar pits plan to formally announce their findings on Wednesday.
The discoveries could double the museum's Ice Age collection.
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