LAGUNA HILLS
The City Council this week approved the monument marker for the Costeau Pit historical monument, to be installed July 3. The bronze plaque will be embedded into a rock on which a statue of the giant ground sloth will stand. The sloth flourished in the area about 40,000 years ago. Sloth bones and teeth were discovered at the pit in 1965; thousands of fossils from the Ice Age remain buried there.
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