The La Brea Tar Pits – home to more than 3.5 million Ice Age fossils – is one of the planet’s best-kept records of what it was like in the area we now know as Southern California over the last 60,000 ...
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The La Brea Tar Pits are a group of natural asphalt pools in the Miracle Mile neighborhood of Los Angeles. In the middle of the nation’s second-largest city, millions of fossils of animals that were ...
Scientists have been extracting huge fossils from the La Brea tar pits since 1913. Many of the animals lived during the Ice Age, as far back as 50,000 years ago. The tar pits have preserved an entire ...
The petroleum fly and their larvae thrive in the natural asphalt at the La Brea Tar Pits. In the sticky oil seeps known as the La Brea Tar Pits, the tiny petroleum fly and their larvae thrive in the ...
Though it might be one of the more historically iconic L.A. tourist destinations–on par with Randy’s Donuts, Norm’s Coffee, and the Hollywood sign–the La Brea Tar Pits is also potentially one of the ...
Last night, The Natural History Museum kicked off its #HowDoYouMuseum digital campaign to highlight all of the cool changes at the DTLA museum and the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum. People are ...