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Year of the Ox
Celebrate the 2021 Lunar New Year with 21 highlights from the collection
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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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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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Naturalist
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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