Excavations

Exhibitions

Fossil Lab

What happens after the fossils at La Brea Tar Pits are excavated? This is where you find out.

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3D Theater

Travel back in time with Titans of the Ice Age.

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Events

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Fri

12

Aug

Photo of paleontologist excavating fossils

Excavator Tour

Tours & Shows All Ages

10:30 am
1 pm

The Excavator Tour explores the Fossil Lab where real paleontologists work, our historic excavation sites, and Project 23, where live excavations can be seen.

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Fri

12

Aug

gallery interpreter saberooth smilodon skull la brea tar pits guest kid

Saber-toothed Cat Chat

Talks All Ages

3 pm

See what fossil clues from the Tar Pits reveal about L.A.'s famous Ice Age predator.

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Sat

13

Aug

Excavator Tour

Tours & Shows All Ages

10:30 am
1 pm

The Excavator Tour explores the Fossil Lab where real paleontologists work, our historic excavation sites, and Project 23, where live excavations can be seen.

Learn more

Sat

13

Aug

Saber-toothed Cat Chat

Talks All Ages

3 pm

See what fossil clues from the Tar Pits reveal about L.A.'s famous Ice Age predator.

Learn more

Sun

14

Aug

Excavator Tour

Tours & Shows All Ages

10:30 am
1 pm

The Excavator Tour explores the Fossil Lab where real paleontologists work, our historic excavation sites, and Project 23, where live excavations can be seen.

Learn more

Stories

Ailurarctos reconstruction Mauricio Anton

Eating bamboo? It's all in the wrist.

An ancient fossil reveals the earliest panda on an exclusively bamboo diet and the evolutionary history of panda's false thumbs

Research That Rocks

Our breathtaking backyard state park

Before Dinosaurs Got Big

Meet Earth’s first giant—a humongous new species of ichthyosaur—only at NHM!

Earth's First Giant

The two-meter skull of a humongous new ichthyosaur species, Earth’s first known giant creature, reveals how both the extinct marine reptiles and modern whales became giants.