La Brea Tar Pits - Prehistoric Excavation Site and Museum in Los Angeles
A visit to the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum in Los Angeles California . Lots of animatronics , skeletons and history .
La Brea Tar Pits Museum Tour & Fossils (HD)
Take a tour of the grounds of the La Brea Tar Pits as well as the Museum where all the fossils of wooly mammoth, sabertooth cats, wolves and more trapped in tar are kept and displayed. The grounds of the La Brea Tar Pits were free though the museum cost between $10 to $15 to get in depending on age, though the price can well include a 3D educational movie about the animals of the ice age at the grasslands. In addition to all the fossils, there was also a station where kids and adults can feel what it was like to be trapped in tar, a see-through area where actual researchers are at work, and a nice courtyard with koi fish.
La Brea Tar Pits Travel Guide
A travel guide for visiting the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California. The La Brea Tar Pits is a collection of tar pits and museum located near downtown LA. This is one of my favorite off the beaten path attractions in Los Angeles... it's neat, historic, and a natural wonder. How often do you get to see tar bubbling up from the ground anyway?
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The La Brea tar pits and Page museum offer a view of a 'different' Los Angeles.
La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, Los Angeles, California
A little video of our visit to the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles and the Museum. The tar pits have preserved the bones of trapped animals from tens of thousands of years ago, and the museum is dedicated to researching the finds from the pits and displaying the specimens.
In this video you can see the tar pits, with gas bubbling to the surface, and see some of the skeletons displayed in the museum as well as animated models of the creatures as they would have looked when alive.
Disclaimer - we received complimentary entry to the Tar Pits and Museum in exchange for sharing our visit on social media and my blog.
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La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, Los Angeles, CA
A few things that are unique about the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum in Los Angeles, is 1) that it's close to Downtown L.A., and 2) You can viewbones being excavated in situ - from the actual pits. Inside the museum the staff can be seen cleaning and curating the finds. 3) The tar is still bubbling out of the ground, watch were you step! The staff has placed hazard cones wherever the sticky, bubbly stuff has oozed out of the lawn. It's amazing to think that they've found saber toothed cats, mastodons, dire wolves, giant sloths, and many more fossils at this site. It's also next to the L.A. County Museum of Art. (LACMA) - which has cafes and had a food truck.
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La Brea Tar Pits Page Museum Video Part 1
La Brea Tar Pits: An Urban Mystery. Winner Bronze Telly Award 2012.
In the first two decades of the twentieth century, hundreds of thousands of fossils were excavated from the Rancho La Brea Tar Pits. Prior to that time, these pits were unknown. When Spanish settlers first arrived in the area of Los Angeles in the eighteenth century, they found a number of tar springs located in the middle of a large plain at the foot of the Santa Monica Mountains.
Surrounding the springs was a scattering of animal bones visibly embedded within a layer of asphalt. It was not until the mid 1870s that people began to realize the remote antiquity of these bones. Soon after exploratory excavations began in the early 1900s, scientists were finding tar pits containing large numbers of fossils.
The conventional explanation for the occurrence of these fossils is that thirsty birds and mammals, deceived by water-filled pools of tar, had blundered into these viscous traps and died in them. Although widely accepted, the entrapment theory has failed to give convincing answers to some key questions, including the physical characteristics of tar pits, the fragmentation and chaotic intermingling of the bones, and the numerical preponderance of the carnivores. Since these issues cannot be resolved by the entrapment theory. The evidence seems to be pointing toward the possibility of flooding as the agent for fossil deposition at the La Brea Tar Pits.
Behind the Scenes at the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum
As part of our celebration of National Fossil Day we spent an afternoon over at the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum asking Trevor Valle, Lab Supervisor some fun questions about fossils. We'll also, be having an extended celebration on Saturday October 23 at the Museum.
National Fossil Day is a nationwide celebration organized through a partnership between the National Park Service and a growing list of more than 80 federal and state agencies, professional organizations, museums, and other groups. Paleontology education programs conducted by various NPS units and partner institutions enable children to better understand the history of life, science of paleontology and other educational objectives through a wide variety of classroom, museum, fieldtrip and outdoor activities.
La Brea Tar Pits And LACMA - Los Angeles CA USA | #HariNgLarga
Located in the same complex, the La Brea Tar Pits and LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum Of Art) are considered as top attractions in Los Angeles. La Brea Tar Pits are a group of tar pits formed in urban Los Angeles. This area is the only actively excavated Ice Age fossil site found in an urban location in the world. On the other hand, LACMA is the largest art museum in the western United States.
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La Brea Tar Pits Page Museum (Part 1)
A comprehensive walking tour of the Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits. Located in the heart of Los Angeles, the Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits is one of the world’s most famous fossil localities. This onsite Museum displays Ice Age fossils — including saber-toothed cats, dire wolves and mammoths — from 10,000 to 40,000-year-old asphalt deposits. But visitors can also watch the processes of paleontology unfold. Every day inside the glass-enclosed Fossil Lab, scientists and volunteers prepare fossils including “Zed,” a recently discovered male Columbian mammoth. The Page Museum is currently excavating and studying a cache of recently unearthed fossils known as Project 23, an endeavor that could double the Museum’s already tremendous collection of more than three million Ice Age specimens and inform decades of new research. Outside the Museum, in Hancock Park, the Pleistocene Garden and iconic life-size replicas of extinct mammals depict the life that once grew, and roamed, in Los Angeles.
Tar Continues To Ooze Up On Streets Near La Brea Tar Pits
The oozing tar is becoming a popular tourist destination to rival the La Brea Tar Pits. Jake Reiner reports.
Page Museum- La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles, CA.
FossilHunter51 & RavenSeventy8 A Trip to La Brea Tar Pits on April 24, 2009 Thanks for watching and leave your likes and comments below. Apple I phone 4s Los Angeles, CA.
Mammoth Discovery at La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles
Scientists in Los Angeles have uncovered a treasure trove of Ice Age animal bones, including the nearly complete fossil of a huge Columbian mammoth. Mike O'Sullivan reports the discovery at the La Brea Tar Pits should reveal more about life in the region up to 40,000 years ago.
La Brea Tar Pits 2017, Los Angeles Ca, Video & Pictures slideshow
Video and pictures from La Brea Tar Pits. Includes Lake Pit and museum.
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I grew up in Los Angeles, and I was always fascinated by the La Brea Tar Pits. Right in the middle of the city, in an area called the Miracle Mile, for crying out loud, we have these eldritch ponds of dark, bubbling goo. And down in the muck, there're all these amazing fossils: mammoth and saber-tooth cat and dire wolf. ~
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Visiting La Brea Tar Pits in LA - Rancho La Brea #TravelTips
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The George C. Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries opened on April 13, 1977, after a two-year period of construction. The idea of an onsite museum dedicated to the history and prehistory of Rancho La Brea was first suggested by Captain G. Allan Hancock when he deeded the 23 acres of Hancock Park to Los Angeles County in 1924. The architectural design was created by Willis Fagan and Frank Thornton of the firm Thornton and Fagan, A. I. A., and Associates of Pasadena, California. The total area of the museum is 57,000-square feet, which includes a 9,000-square feet central atrium, 20,000-square feet dedicated to collection storage, laboratories and offices, and 28,000-square feet exhibit space. In 2015, to highlight the tar pits, the museum was renamed to reflect the site itself, changing to the La Brea Tar Pits Museum.
At Rancho La Brea, asphalt is the residue left on the surface of the ground as the lighter elements of crude oil (such as kerosene) evaporate into the atmosphere. Copious amounts of asphalt are produced as a by-product of gasoline refining. That this heavy, viscous substance is commonly called tar is misleading. Tar is a by-product of destructive distillation of woody materials, such as coal or peat.
Nearly all of the skeletons on display are real fossil bones found at the tar pits. They have been mounted using an internal steel and wire armature. Missing bones or parts originally composed of cartilage have been reconstructed in a few instances. The Shasta ground sloth skeleton is made of plaster because the bones of this species are rare from Rancho La Brea. In addition, the Columbian mammoth and American mastodon tusks are fiberglass replicas because only fragmentary tusks have been recovered from the asphaltic deposits.
The bubbles seen in the Lake Pit and at the excavation sites are composed mostly of methane, commonly called natural gas.
Museum opens from 9:30 am - 5 pm every day
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Prices:
Adults $22
Seniors 62+ $19
Student Ages 13-17 $19
Child Ages 3-12 $15
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The La Brea Tar Pits and Museum
5801 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036
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Excavating 101 with Carrie Howard at the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum
ACTIVE SCIENCE
Ever wonder how paleontologists at the tar pits excavate the fossils? We'll take you on a behind-the-scenes paleo journey in this film.
La Brea Tar Pits and Museum (Los Angeles, California, USA)
Tour of the La Brea Tar Pits & Page Museum in Los Angeles, CA
Filmed on May 26, 2012.