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Excavations

Exhibitions

Onlookers watch scientists in the Fossil Lab

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

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Image of mammoths

Travel back in time with Titans of the Ice Age.

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Events

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Tue

02

Jun

Photo of paleontologist excavating fossils

Virtual Educator Workshop: Urban Paleontology

Educator Workshop

11 am

Join us as we discuss the mammoth in the metro, dodging bulldozers, and the classroom-to-career connections in paleontology happening in our own backyards!

Sun

05

Jul

Project 23 boxes and bins

Project 23 Revealed

Tours & Shows

11:30 am

Walk to our current excavation where you’ll talk to real excavators about their newest discoveries and learn the inside story of Project 23.

Please note, we will have an additional programming on 2/17/20

Sun

05

Jul

guests family kids la brea tar pits fossil lab

Inside the Fossil Lab

Tours & Shows

2:30 pm

Discover how our paleontologists clean, sort, and study fossils uncovered in the Tar Pits!

Please note, we will have an additional programming on 2/17/20

Sat

11

Jul

Project 23 boxes and bins

Project 23 Revealed

Tours & Shows

11:30 am

Walk to our current excavation where you’ll talk to real excavators about their newest discoveries and learn the inside story of Project 23.

Please note, we will have an additional programming on 2/17/20

Sat

11

Jul

guests family kids la brea tar pits fossil lab

Inside the Fossil Lab

Tours & Shows

2:30 pm

Discover how our paleontologists clean, sort, and study fossils uncovered in the Tar Pits!

Please note, we will have an additional programming on 2/17/20

Stories

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Clear glass drug bottle from turn of the century

Message From A Bottle

Finds from Exposition Park excavations reveal past lives.

Preparator James Preston working on fossils from home.

A Different Kind of Prepping

For Vertebrate Paleontology Preparator James Preston, science doesn’t stop.

mammoth exhibit tar pits mammoths and mastodons

Meet Hayden, the Metro Mammoth

A juvenile mammoth that was discovered during a dig for the new Metro

Woolly Rhino in the snow.

Woolly Rhino Fossil with Xiaoming Wang

Our researchers make exciting discoveries all over the world

Summer of Sloths

Sloths Make a Splash

La Brea Tar Pits Assistant Curator Emily Lindsey and a team of researchers found a treasure trove of giant ground sloth specimens

Endurance Ernest Shackleton’s ship

Suit Up for Antarctic Adventures

Antarctic Dinosaurs takes visitors on a journey through centuries of polar explorations

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Future Paleontologist

Dig up the past as you discover the science of the fossil’s journey from excavation to our col

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Tar Pits in Peru

Our Expeditions

Our goal is to foster integrative research collaborations at asphaltic fossil localities around the world.

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