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Ecos: La Brea @ecosroblox.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Additional Non-Holiday skins we will permanently be adding this update: > 🐺 Sooty Dire Wolf, a Tier 2 skin priced at 500 Tracks > 🐴 Bay Dun Near Leopard & Grullo Near Leopard Western Horse, both Tier 4 skins priced at 3000 Tracks

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Ecos: La Brea @ecosroblox.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

In Saturday's update we will also be introducing...Daily Instincts! This system refreshes every 24 hours with 3 new randomized quests you can complete to earn at least 35 tracks! 🐾 - Instincts will encourage multiple playstyles and new quests will be added as game dev progresses.

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Ecos: La Brea @ecosroblox.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

This Saturday, February 21st, Welcome in The...Lunar New Year! 🏮 Introducing the limited edition Wyldfire skin for Columbian Mammoth! 🎆 🦣 priced at 4000 Tracks! This holiday skin will only be available from February 21st to March 14th.

Columbian mammoth chasing a trio of dire wolves attempting to scavenge off its fallen comrade.

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Ecos: La Brea @ecosroblox.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Once a top predator of La Brea; now irresistibly cute 🐯 Bring home a Saber-tooth Cat to guard your space, hunt plush prey, and survive the Ice Age in style. www.makeship.com/products/sab...

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Ecos: La Brea @ecosroblox.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Introducing the Winter Solstice event and the Snowflake Leopard Western Horse! Complete daily quests to reduce the price of the limited skins from 3000 to 600 tracks. Complete 30 quests to unlock a limited billboard color! Holiday skins will be available from Dec 13 - Jan 10.

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Ecos: La Brea @ecosroblox.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

As winter arrives and the air begins to freeze, roam the Pacific plains in a rare new form… 🦣 Play as the Leucistic Columbian Mammoth, available now as a gamepass skin priced at 895 Robux.

Leucistic Columbian mammoth cow browsing with her herd at sunrise

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Ecos: La Brea @ecosroblox.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Survive in one of the most famous ecosystems in prehistory. Saber-toothed cats and dire wolves prowl the woodlands, while Columbian mammoths, horses and bison roam the prairies. Experience the world of Ecos: La Brea, free to play in Roblox today on November 22nd, 2025. 4/4

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Ecos: La Brea @ecosroblox.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Prance across the prairies as another shade of horse… -Black Few Spot Leopard Western Horse, a gamepass skin priced at 205 Robux 3/4

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Ecos: La Brea @ecosroblox.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Run free as a new horse skin… - Black Near Leopard Western Horse, a tier 4 skin priced at 3000 Tracks 2/4

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Ecos: La Brea @ecosroblox.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Ecos: La Brea is free to play TODAY! Join now to unlock our new playable: The Columbian Mammoth 🦣 Other updates include… 1/4

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Ecos: La Brea @ecosroblox.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

🔍 Locate & Collect 100 Dire Wolf skulls hidden around the map to unlock the Mangey Dire Wolf for 2000 tracks, along with a new color gradient for Billboard names! Without finding the wolf skulls, this skin is available for 5000 tracks.

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Ecos: La Brea @ecosroblox.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

This Friday, things are getting spooky! 👻 Introducing the Mangey Dire Wolf, a limited edition Halloween skin only available from October 10th-November 7th! 🎃 A new coat also emerges from the fog…Boggy Dire Wolf, a permanent Tier 4 skin priced at 3000 tracks. 🐾

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Ecos: La Brea @ecosroblox.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Ready your binoculars as Part 1 of the Encyclopedia update drops October 3rd! 📖 This ingame tool will allow you to log and learn more about the incredible fauna found in Los Angeles during the Late Pleistocene.

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Ecos: La Brea @ecosroblox.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Autumnal colors 🍂 As the days of the wet season become shorter in the fall & winter months of Ice Age California, the leaves of deciduous trees (Sycamore, Walnut, Willow, & Alder) will change color.

Ancient bison calling at riverbank surrounded by orange and yellow trees

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Ecos: La Brea @ecosroblox.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

A mammoth cow and bull browse quietly together, their silhouettes mingling with a herd of bison as the light around them fades. Scientific evidence suggests that mammoths used their massive tusks for social, defensive, and foraging behavior, much like modern day elephants!

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Ecos: La Brea @ecosroblox.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Lastly, but certainly not least, nights are about to get a bit darker, and opponents more abundant… “Pseudo-Melanistic” Saber-tooth Cat, a tier 4 skin priced at 3000 tracks

A pseudo-melanistic saber-tooth cat crouching down to drink in the dark of night

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Ecos: La Brea @ecosroblox.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Next, keep your eyes peeled! A familiar spotty equid is inbound. “Bay Leopard” Western Horse, a tier 4 skin priced at 3000 tracks

Three bay leopard horses running across the landscape, the sun setting behind them

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Ecos: La Brea @ecosroblox.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

A new update is coming this Friday, and among some cool changes, a few new skins will be coming as well! To start off, the most hard-headed herbivore is rolling out with a new look: “Scoria” Ancient Bison, a tier 2 skin priced at 500 tracks

Ancient bison bull and cow in a sunny prairie

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Ecos: La Brea @ecosroblox.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

You have been spotted! This Saturday, gallop along the new map's Coastal prairie, or stroll through the Redwood groves as a complex new horse skin. As seen during our panel at the La Brea-palooza... Leopard Western Horse, a tier 4 skin priced at 3000 Tracks.

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Ecos: La Brea @ecosroblox.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Something big is coming soon… During our collab with La Brea Tar Pits & Museum, we officially announced the Columbian Mammoth as an upcoming playable in Ecos: La Brea! 🦣 This behemoth will function as a ecosystem engineer, as well as being 1 of 3 playables we are actively working on!

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Ecos: La Brea @ecosroblox.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Join us in celebrating Ecos with tomorrow’s Summer Nights event! We are hosting a discussion panel to talk about the game. For more information, check out the Page Museum website: tarpits.org/calendar/sum...

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Summer Nights at the Tar Pits

Join us for science, live music, hands-on activities, food trucks, and drinks at the Tar Bar—a perfect laid-back summer night at the Tar Pits!

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Ecos: La Brea @ecosroblox.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Ecos: La Brea is AT the La Brea Tar Pits! Until Monday, July 21st, come play Ecos in person at the Page Museum in Los Angeles, CA.

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Ecos: La Brea @ecosroblox.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

A passing bison herd disturbs the stillness of the evening... Ballona Creek is the primary waterway that carves its way through the Santa Monica basin. While today it flows as a concrete, channelized stream, during the last Ice Age it fed a vibrant riparian ecosystem. 🍃

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Ecos: La Brea @ecosroblox.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

A Western horse herd finds themselves in an unfamiliar new environment... Redwood groves are a new plant community that will feature coastal redwood trees, western sword ferns, fungi, & more plants to come.🌲 This is one of many images highlighting an upcoming map update! 📸

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Ecos: La Brea @ecosroblox.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

While initially considered a sister species to grey wolves, the dire wolf instead portrays a rich, complex story of canid evolution that we have only just begun to unravel. To learn more about dire wolves and their ecosystems, be sure to check out ecoslabrea.wixsite.com/ecos--la-brea

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Ecos: La Brea @ecosroblox.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

The preprint also suggests the Aenocyon lineage evolved via admixture between basal Caninae & South American canids, followed by later admixture with the LCA of Canis & dholes. Despite earlier hybridization, both paleogenetic studies imply no gene flow between A. dirus and Canis.

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Ecos: La Brea @ecosroblox.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Sensationalism aside, Colossal's supporting preprint, Gedman et al. 2025, provides genuine insight into the genetic prehistory of Aenocyon. Referencing nuclear & mitochondrial paleogenomes produced a potentially constrained divergence time for the Aenocyon lineage at ~4.5 Ma.

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Ecos: La Brea @ecosroblox.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Further discourse arose recently with Colossal Biosciences' "Dire Wolf De-Extinction Project", advertising the alleged resurrection of Aenocyon via gene-editing grey wolves to mirror fossilized genomes. This has been met with criticism by institutions such as the IUCN and LANHM.

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Ecos: La Brea @ecosroblox.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

However, the study Perri et al. (2021) overturned the consensus on dire wolf heredity. Using genomic DNA, they proposed dire wolves diverged from other canines in the Late Miocene (~5-7 Ma). Accordingly, the authors redescribed the animal under its previous title: Aenocyon dirus.

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Ecos: La Brea @ecosroblox.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

In the 1980s, paleontologist Björn Kurtén proposed two North American subspecies: C. d. dirus and C.d. guildayi based on skeletal differences. Following literature from 1988 to 2010 also suggests the existence of a South American subspecies known as "Canis (dirus) nehringi".

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Ecos: La Brea @ecosroblox.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

The dire wolf was first described in the 1850s under Canis primaevus. By the early 1900s, John C. Merriam advocated for the genus Aenocyon (Greek ainos, 'terrible' and cyon, 'dog'), which was later rejected in favor of Canis dirus, a sister species to the extant grey wolf.

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Ecos: La Brea @ecosroblox.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Roaming from Canada to Argentina in the Mid-Late Pleistocene, dire wolves were hypercarnivores, consuming a wide range of prey from ungulates, xenarthrans, & proboscideans. Studies from La Brea suggest these large canids lived in monogamous packs with high male-male competition.

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Ecos: La Brea @ecosroblox.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

5/2 update: -Stress: System that aims to discourage unrealistic behaviors like mix-packing & over-crowding New skins: -Misceo Dire Wolf, Tier 1 -Laurel Saber-tooth Cat, Tier 1 To celebrate, dive into this thread reviewing the ancestry of Dire Wolves based on recent science🐺🧬:

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Ecos: La Brea @ecosroblox.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

And here’s an extra look at the Veteran cow!

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Ecos: La Brea @ecosroblox.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

This Friday, the bison of Rancho La Brea charge into battle! JOUSTING ⚔️ is coming to Ecos! To celebrate, we are releasing a very unique skin for the Ancient Bison; Veteran! Veteran is a tier 4 skin priced at 3000 Tracks, unique among the roster with its cosmetic broken horn.

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Ecos: La Brea @ecosroblox.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

En garde! ⚔️ The bison of Rancho La Brea are gearing up for battle. Jousting is in development!

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Ecos: La Brea @ecosroblox.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

This Friday, show off to your Valentine with two brand new Dire Wolf skins: 🐺Acer, a tier 2 skin priced at 500 🐺Umbral, a tier 4 skin priced at 3000

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Tess Gallagher @tessasaurus.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

A mare is one of just 4 horses who survived an onslaught attack from saber toothed cats and dire wolves. Finally, she can find peace in the meadow Ecos: La Brea

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Ecos: La Brea @ecosroblox.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

And watch your back as a Western Horse... the takedown animation will now play when Saber-tooth Cats win the minigame!

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Ecos: La Brea @ecosroblox.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

In just a few hours, we will be adding new skins to the game! Erythristic Saber-tooth Cat (tier 4, 3000), Apocryphal Ancient Bison (tier 3, 1000), and Bay Western Horse (tier 2, 500), with FREE variations Sandy Bay and Seal Bay!

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Ecos: La Brea @ecosroblox.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Happy Holidays! From the Ecos team to all of you!

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Ecos: La Brea @ecosroblox.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Ecos: La Brea has reached 1,000,000 visits! 🥳 Thanks to you, we reached this goal in just a few weeks! Your enthusiasm is clear, and we will keep working to improve & add to the wonderful world of La Brea.

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Ecos: La Brea @ecosroblox.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Tomorrow, saber-toothed cat packs will display a new look! The Smilodon has received an update to make all patterns more scientifically accurate to our modern understanding of spotted cats, aswell as the addition of a new Pinyon skin!

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