The life and death of a 'city of worms'
Wednesday, March 27, 2019 - 10:20
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Twenty thousand years ago, when giant sloths and saber-toothed tigers roamed the Los Angeles Basin, in the dark ocean depths lived an immense colony of worms. Not your garden-variety earthworms, but furtive creatures that lived in little shell-like tubes hundreds of meters below the sea surface.