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Tens of thousands of years ago, dire wolves hunted ground sloths and camels while herds of gigantic mammoths lumbered past cypress trees. All of this happened where Los Angeles now stands, and many of ...

4:22 p.m. Oct. 28, 2022: An earlier version of this story said the dragonfly that got stuck in the asphalt was observed near Pit 23 of the La Brea Tar Pits. It was near Pit 91. On a recent fall day, a ...