![]() The mural hung in the Hall of the Age of Man. Sloths stuck in tar pits being attacked by smilodons, vultures watching from trees, wild dogs and mastodons in distance, mountains in background. Pacific coast (La Brea Tar Pits fauna near Los Angeles), sabre-tooth tiger (smilodon), ground sloth, columbian mammoth, extinct vulture, canis dirus. ![]() Knight had previously painted a very similar scene with only minor differences (the tree branches, the position of the attacking felines, some of the animals in the background) in December 1921 for a mural at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Image placed in the public domain, courtesy of the University of Southern California Libraries and the California Historical Society. ![]()
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