Scientists have long back concluded that today's Los Angeles was once roamed by prehistoric animals, and the recent discovery of fossils during an exploratory subway shaft dig has just added more weight to that conclusion.

A recently conducted exploratory subway shaft digging work just down the street from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art exposed a treasure trove of fossils dating as back more than two million years.

The uncovered fossils, which are from a time when the Pacific Ocean would extend many miles farther inland than it does today, include mollusks, asphalt-saturated sand dollars and a fossil that that is possibly the mouth of an ancient sea lion dating as back as two million years.

The excavation work also uncovered a ten-foot limb possibly from a pine tree of the type that normally now found in California's central forests.

Commenting on the discovery, paleontologist Kim Scott said, "Here on the Miracle Mile is where the best record of life from the last great ice age in the world is found."

The discovery of fossils is enough to prove that the area, which is now home to many well-known restaurants, museums and sky scrappers, was once the home to dinosaurs.