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It tastes like a horse. 5801 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036. Reconstruction of an extinct western horse (Equus occidentalis). Fossil bones of this Ice Age species were excavated from the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California. To learn more about the scientific and artistic decisions that went into making this model, read our peer ...
Subway, line 20 bus • 37 min. Take the subway from Civic Center / Grand Park Station to Wilshire / Western Station Metro D Line. Take the line 20 bus from Wilshire / Western to Wilshire / Curson 20. $4.
La Brea Tar Pits and Museum. 3,271 reviews. #30 of 924 things to do in Los Angeles. Natural History MuseumsScience Museums. Closed now. 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM. Write a review. About. Explore the world's only active, urban Ice Age excavation site.
Your idea of old may be 100, but that will undoubtedly change after you spend several hours at the La Brea Tar Pits & Museum. You will learn that until 11,000 years ago, wildlife roamed freely throughout what is now Los Angeles. During that period, known as the Pleistocene Era, saber-toothed cats, dire wolves, and Harlan’s ground sloths prowled where office buildings, traffic lights, and ...
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3. Asphalt is an Amazing Preservative. La Brea Tar Pits lab worker cleans asphalt from a 40,000-year-old bison bone. Los Angeles Almanac Photo. Asphalt is not easily removed from fossil remains, as La Brea Tar Pits paleontologists can tell you, but skeletal remains encased in it are kept in pristine condition.
Dr. Regan Dunn is an Assistant Curator at La Brea Tar Pits and Museum. She is a paleobotanist whose research seeks to understand the interplay between climate, plants and animal evolution through time. She studies phytoliths, pollen, leaf fossils and wood to reconstruct ancient vegetation structure and composition.
