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Tar PitsLa Brea Tar Pits. HartWilliam S. Hart Museum. We are open today from 9:30 am to 5 pm. La Brea Tar Pits. Groundbreaking research sheds light on an Ice Age mystery—and our climate future. Dig deeper. Special Experiences. Explore the sites, collections, and programs that bring the Ice Age to life.
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1964. Small tar pit. The La Brea Tar Pits is an active paleontological research site in urban Los Angeles. Hancock Park was formed around a group of tar pits where natural asphalt (also called asphaltum, bitumen, or pitch; brea in Spanish) has seeped up from the ground for tens of thousands of years.
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Feb 27, 2024 · La Brea Tar Pits, tar (Spanish brea) pits, in Hancock Park (Rancho La Brea), Los Angeles, California, U.S. The area was the site of “pitch springs” oozing crude oil that was used by local Indians for waterproofing. Gaspar de Portolá ’s expedition in 1769 explored the area, which encompasses about 20 acres (8 hectares).
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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.
For these are the La Brea tar pits, containing one of the richest, best preserved, and best studied assemblages of Pleistocene vertebrates , including at least 59 species of mammal and over 135 species of bird . The tar pit fossils bear eloquent witness to life in southern California from 40,000 to 8,000 years ago; aside from vertebrates, they ...
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