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10 Fascinating Facts About the La Brea Tar Pits
At the site known today as the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, natural asphalt has bubbled up from below the ground’s surface since the Ice Age. This murky sludge has trapped and made fossils out ...
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La Brea Tar Pits passes major hurdle; green space, birds at risk
The Miracle Mile Residential Association (MMRA) has been in lock step with the Audubon Society in opposition of the new ...
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La Brea Tar Pits
The adjoining museum houses many of the artifacts found at the tar pits; consequently, it is home to one of the largest collections of Ice Age fossils in the world. Recent visitors said the site ...
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Newly identified mysterious fossil seed reveals Ice Age climate patterns
La Brea Tar Pits scientists ... at the Tar Pits and better understanding our own climate future. The mammoths and saber-toothed cats that shape our imagination of Ice Age Los Angeles browsed ...
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La Brea Tar Pits
The tar pits were formed thousands of years ago, from natural sticky asphalt. The asphalt trapped animals, plants, and insects during the Ice Age. Scientists and researchers have been excavating ...