At the site known today as the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, natural asphalt has bubbled up from below the ground’s surface ...
An curved arrow pointing right. Excavators at the La Brea Tar Pits work almost every day to pull fossils out of the ground, clean, and prepare them for further research. With 4 million specimens ...
The La Brea Tar Pits exhibit was based on a discovery in the 1940s and 1950s of large woolly mammoth bones. It caused a huge amount of excitement in the city. By the 70s there were much smaller ...