Mounting technician Kevin Krudwig installs a temporary styrofoam head on “Gnatalie,” a new fossil sauropod exhibit coming to the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles. Dinosaur fans who responded to the museum’s request for input overwhelmingly chose to call the Natural History Museum’s new 70-foot-long sauropod “Gnatalie.” More than 36% of roughly 8,100 participants in a public poll chose that …
In September 1986, Dennis Earl Seger packed his belongings into his green Ford Torino, leaving his Seattle home for Los Angeles. More than a year later, off-road motorists stumbled across skeletal remains in a remote swath of desert in Newberry Springs, about 150 miles from Seger’s destination. Deputies confirmed the remains were a human skeleton, but with no investigative leads …