Despite his financial success, he remained deeply interested in education, science, and public institutions.
George C. Page was an American entrepreneur, real-estate developer, and philanthropist whose name became permanently associated with one of the most famous paleontological sites in the world, the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. Born in Fremont, Nebraska, in 1901, Page came from modest beginnings and moved to California as a teenager.
Dire wolves were among the largest canids to have ever lived.
The dire wolf (Canis dirus) is an extinct species of the genus Canis that lived during the Late Pleistocene and early Holocene epochs, approximately 125,000 to 9,500 years ago. Taxonomically, it belongs to the family Canidae, which includes modern wolves, coyotes, and domestic dogs.
