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La Brea Tar Pits and Hancock Park
Touring the Tar Pits From Home
Take a field trip through evolving Ice Age history at La Brea Tar Pits.
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Bison on the range
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An American Icon, Once Endangered
The natural history and near extinction of the most American of mammals
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From Giant Ground Sloths to Tiny Poops
Global tar pits reveal past ecosystems
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Meet Hayden, the Metro Mammoth
A juvenile mammoth that was discovered during a dig for the new Metro
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Summer of Sloths
Death by pooping?
La Brea Tar Pits Assistant Curator Emily Lindsey and a team of researchers found a treasure trove of giant ground sloth specimens
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Aerial photograph of two people cleaning mammoth fossil
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Mammoth on Display
Our most complete mammoth, nicknamed “Zed” is almost ready to return to the limelight!
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Teens helping out in the Fossil Lab as part of La Brea Tar Pits Teen Program
Research and Collections
Students Name a Puma
As if working with Ice Age fossils at the La Brea Tar Pits wasn’t cool enough, the job comes with one pretty unforgettable perk.
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Nature in L.A.
Look who didn't get stuck at La Brea Tar Pits
When colleagues at La Brea Tar Pits contacted me, seemingly out of the blue, to request my help with camera trap monitoring in one of their excavation sites, I was already eager to pay them a visit.
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Project 23 boxes and bins
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Our Rich Digs
More than a decade of rich digs at Project 23
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