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La Brea Tar Pits

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Groundbreaking research sheds light on an Ice Age mystery—and our climate future



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Lake Pit

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Our Excavations

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Dire Wolf Wall

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Ice Age Fossils

Ice Age Encounters Show

Ice Age Encounters

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Life reconstruction of fire at La Brea Tar Pits during the Pleistocene as bison are stuck during a wildfire

An Ice Age Mystery

What happened to the Tar Pits titans?
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Coyotes: Howling from the Ice Age

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Get Stuck in Our New Tar Mobile

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Smilodon, Saber-Tooths, and Tigers…Oh My!

Dr. Emily Lindsey in the La Brea Tar Pits collections close up

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What Tar Pits Fossils Reveal

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Dr. Regan Dunn in Pit 91 at La Brea Tar Pits

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What Ice Age Plants Reveal

with Dr. Regan Dunn

Playing With Fire: Extinction Scene 4

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Extinction and Survival at La Brea Tar Pits

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Our Evolving Understanding of Dire Wolves

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Our Rich Digs

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From Giant Ground Sloths to Tiny Poops

Two pedestrian paths bring people above the Lake Pit, a site for urban fiction and imagination.
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