Right in the heart of L.A. sits the world’s most powerful gateway to the Ice Age. The asphalt seeps at La Brea Tar Pits are the only active urban fossil dig site in the world. Plants and animals from the last 50,000 years are discovered here every day. Outside, you can watch excavators carve fossils out of the asphalt. Inside the museum, our staff prepares these discoveries in the see-through Fossil Lab. You'll see final result in our exhibitions: extraordinary saber-toothed cats, mammoths, dire
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Right in the heart of L.A. sits the world’s most powerful gateway to the Ice Age. The asphalt seeps at La Brea Tar Pits are the only active urban fossil dig site in the world. Plants and animals from the last 50,000 years are discovered here every day. Outside, you can watch excavators carve fossils out of the asphalt. Inside the museum, our staff prepares these discoveries in the see-through Fossil Lab. You'll see final result in our exhibitions: extraordinary saber-toothed cats, mammoths, dire
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La Brea Tar Pits are one of the strangest, richest fossil sites on Earth—right in the middle of Los Angeles. For over 50,000 years, natural asphalt seeped up from the ground, trapping Ice Age animals that wandered in looking for water. Herbivores like mammoths and ground sloths got stuck first… then predators—dire wolves, saber-toothed cats—rushed in and got trapped too. The result? Millions of bones, incredibly preserved, many still being excavated today. This isn’t a museum of the past—it’s an
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La Brea Tar Pits are one of the strangest, richest fossil sites on Earth—right in the middle of Los Angeles. For over 50,000 years, natural asphalt seeped up from the ground, trapping Ice Age animals that wandered in looking for water. Herbivores like mammoths and ground sloths got stuck first… then predators—dire wolves, saber-toothed cats—rushed in and got trapped too. The result? Millions of bones, incredibly preserved, many still being excavated today. This isn’t a museum of the past—it’s an
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