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Sabertooth cat skeleton and notecard with field notes
Get Sedimental With La Brea Tar Pits
Help transcribe 'dig' field notes for fossils excavated since 1969
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illustration of ox
Year of the Ox
Celebrate the 2021 Lunar New Year with 21 highlights from the collection
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Dire wolf wall of skulls at an angle
Dire Wolf Skull Wall Reinstall
3,600 individual dire wolves recovered, 400 skulls, one iconic La Brea Tar Pits installation refurbished
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Diorama with bears on either side
NHMLAC + Pacific Standard Time
NHMLAC receives two grants to prepare for the next edition of the regional arts initiative Pacific Standard Time, scheduled to open in 2024. 
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La Brea Tar Pits and Hancock Park
Time Machine Window: A Look Back at Ice Age Los Angeles
Take a look at Los Angeles through Ice Age lenses
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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
Naturalist
An American Icon, Once Endangered
The natural history and near extinction of the most American of mammals
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tar pit in trinidad edited
From Giant Ground Sloths to Tiny Poops
Global tar pits reveal past ecosystems
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