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In the middle of Los Angeles, on the stretch of Wilshire Boulevard known as the Miracle Mile, bubbles one of the world's richest fossil sites: the La Brea Tar Pits, where natural asphalt has seeped to the surface for tens of thousands of years. The sticky pools, set in the green expanse of Hancock Park, have trapped and preserved Ice Age animals in extraordinary numbers, making this a working palaeontological dig in the heart of a modern city. The science here is remarkable. Over millennia, cru...