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class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Brea_Tar_Pits" title="La Brea Tar Pits – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="La Brea Tar Pits" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parc_La_Brea" title="Parc La Brea – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Parc La Brea" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Brea_Tar_Pits" title="La Brea Tar Pits – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="La Brea Tar Pits" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Brea_Tar_Pits" title="La Brea Tar Pits – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="La Brea Tar Pits" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Brea_Tar_Pits" title="La Brea Tar Pits – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="La Brea Tar Pits" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pozos_de_asfalto_de_La_Brea" title="Pozos de asfalto de La Brea – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Pozos de asfalto de La Brea" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Brea" title="La Brea – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="La Brea" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Brea_(Los_Angeles)" title="La Brea (Los Angeles) – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="La Brea (Los Angeles)" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%86%DA%86%D9%88_%D9%84%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7" title="رنچو لا بریا – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="رنچو لا بریا" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Brea_Tar_Pits" title="La Brea Tar Pits – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="La Brea Tar Pits" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Brea" title="La Brea – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="La Brea" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancho_La_Brea" title="Rancho La Brea – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Rancho La Brea" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%9D%BC%EB%B8%8C%EB%A0%88%EC%95%84_%ED%83%80%EB%A5%B4_%EC%9B%85%EB%8D%A9%EC%9D%B4" title="라브레아 타르 웅덩이 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="라브레아 타르 웅덩이" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gudro-Fosi_La_Brea" title="Gudro-Fosi La Brea – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Gudro-Fosi La Brea" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Brea_Tar_Pits" title="La Brea Tar Pits – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="La Brea Tar Pits" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%94%D7%96%D7%A4%D7%AA_%D7%91%D7%9C%D7%94_%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%90%D7%94" title="בורות הזפת בלה בריאה – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="בורות הזפת בלה בריאה" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Brea_degutduob%C4%97s" title="La Brea degutduobės – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="La Brea degutduobės" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Brea-teerputten" title="La Brea-teerputten – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="La Brea-teerputten" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%94%E3%83%83%E3%83%88" title="ラ・ブレア・タールピット – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ラ・ブレア・タールピット" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Brea_Tar_Pits" title="La Brea Tar Pits – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="La Brea Tar Pits" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancho_La_Brea" title="Rancho La Brea – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Rancho La Brea" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Brea" title="La Brea – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="La Brea" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Brea_Tar_Pits" title="La Brea Tar Pits – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="La Brea Tar Pits" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%87%D0%BE_%D0%9B%D0%B0-%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B0" title="Ранчо Ла-Бреа – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Ранчо Ла-Бреа" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Brea_Tar_Pits" title="La Brea Tar Pits – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="La Brea Tar Pits" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Brean_tervahaudat" title="La Brean tervahaudat – Finnish" lang="fi" 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-118.356</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span class="official-website"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://tarpits.org/">Official website</a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><div style="border:4px solid #FFC94B; line-height: 1.5; text-align: center;"> <a href="/wiki/California_Historical_Landmark" title="California Historical Landmark">California Historical Landmark</a></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Official name</th><td class="infobox-data">Hancock Park La Brea<sup id="cite_ref-CHL_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHL-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Reference no.</th><td class="infobox-data">170</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><div style="border:4px solid #ACE1AF; line-height: 1.5; text-align: center;"> <a href="/wiki/National_Natural_Landmark" title="National Natural Landmark">U.S. National Natural Landmark</a></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Designated</th><td class="infobox-data">1964</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:New_tar.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/New_tar.jpg/220px-New_tar.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/New_tar.jpg/330px-New_tar.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/New_tar.jpg/440px-New_tar.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="2448" /></a><figcaption>Small tar pit</figcaption></figure> <p><b>La Brea Tar Pits</b> is an active <a href="/wiki/Paleontological_site" title="Paleontological site">paleontological research site</a> in urban <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a>. <a href="/wiki/Hancock_Park" title="Hancock Park">Hancock Park</a> was formed around a group of <a href="/wiki/Tar_pit" title="Tar pit">tar pits</a> where natural <a href="/wiki/Bitumen" title="Bitumen">asphalt</a> (also called asphaltum, bitumen, or pitch; <i>brea</i> in Spanish) has seeped up from the ground for tens of thousands of years. Over many centuries, the bones of trapped animals have been preserved. The <a href="/wiki/George_C._Page" title="George C. Page">George C. Page</a> Museum is dedicated to researching the tar pits and displaying specimens from the animals that died there. La Brea Tar Pits is a registered <a href="/wiki/National_Natural_Landmark" title="National Natural Landmark">National Natural Landmark</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Formation">Formation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=La_Brea_Tar_Pits&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Formation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Smilodon_and_Canis_dirus.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Smilodon_and_Canis_dirus.jpg/280px-Smilodon_and_Canis_dirus.jpg" decoding="async" width="280" height="195" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Smilodon_and_Canis_dirus.jpg/420px-Smilodon_and_Canis_dirus.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Smilodon_and_Canis_dirus.jpg/560px-Smilodon_and_Canis_dirus.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2543" data-file-height="1773" /></a><figcaption>Illustration of several species getting mired in the tar pits</figcaption></figure> <p>Tar pits are composed of <a href="/wiki/Heavy_crude_oil" title="Heavy crude oil">heavy oil</a> fractions called <a href="/wiki/Gilsonite" class="mw-redirect" title="Gilsonite">gilsonite</a>, which seep from the earth as oil. <a href="/wiki/Crude_oil" class="mw-redirect" title="Crude oil">Crude oil</a> seeps up along the 6th Street Fault from the <a href="/wiki/Salt_Lake_Oil_Field" title="Salt Lake Oil Field">Salt Lake Oil Field</a>, which underlies much of the Fairfax District north of <a href="/wiki/Hancock_Park" title="Hancock Park">Hancock Park</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Khilyuk_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Khilyuk-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The oil reaches the surface and forms pools, becoming asphalt as the lighter fractions of the petroleum <a href="/wiki/Biodegrade" class="mw-redirect" title="Biodegrade">biodegrade</a> or evaporate.<sup id="cite_ref-UCMP_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UCMP-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The asphalt then normally hardens into stubby mounds, which can be seen in several areas of the park. </p><p>This seepage has been happening for tens of thousands of years, during which the asphalt would sometimes form a deposit thick enough to trap animals. The deposit would then become covered over with water, dust, and leaves. Animals would wander in, become trapped, and die. Predators would enter to eat the trapped animals and would also become stuck, a phenomenon called a "<a href="/wiki/Predator_trap" title="Predator trap">predator trap</a>". As the bones of a dead animal sank, the asphalt would soak into them, turning them dark-brown or black in color. Lighter <a href="/wiki/Fraction_(chemistry)" title="Fraction (chemistry)">fractions</a> of petroleum evaporated from the asphalt, leaving a more solid substance which then encased the bones. </p><p>Dramatic fossils of large mammals have been extricated, and the asphalt also preserves <a href="/wiki/Microfossil" title="Microfossil">microfossils</a>: wood and plant remnants, rodent bones, insects, mollusks, dust, seeds, leaves, and pollen grains.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Examples of these are on display in the George C. Page Museum. <a href="/wiki/Radiometric_dating" title="Radiometric dating">Radiometric dating</a> of preserved wood and bones has given an age of 38,000 years for the oldest known material from the La Brea seeps. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=La_Brea_Tar_Pits&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:LaBrea-tarpits-1910.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/LaBrea-tarpits-1910.jpg/220px-LaBrea-tarpits-1910.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="153" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/LaBrea-tarpits-1910.jpg/330px-LaBrea-tarpits-1910.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/LaBrea-tarpits-1910.jpg/440px-LaBrea-tarpits-1910.jpg 2x" data-file-width="720" data-file-height="500" /></a><figcaption>The Tar Pits in 1910. Oil derricks can be seen in the background.</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Chumash_people" title="Chumash people">Chumash</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tongva" title="Tongva">Tongva</a> people used tar from the pits to build <a href="/wiki/Tomol" title="Tomol">plank boats</a> by sealing planks of <a href="/wiki/California_redwood" class="mw-redirect" title="California redwood">California redwood</a> trunks and pieces of driftwood from the <a href="/wiki/Santa_Barbara_Channel" title="Santa Barbara Channel">Santa Barbara Channel</a>, which they used to navigate the California coastline and <a href="/wiki/Channel_Islands_(California)" title="Channel Islands (California)">Channel Islands</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Portol%C3%A1_expedition" title="Portolá expedition">Portolá expedition</a>, a group of Spanish explorers led by <a href="/wiki/Gaspar_de_Portol%C3%A1" title="Gaspar de Portolá">Gaspar de Portolá</a>, made the first written record of the tar pits in 1769. Father <a href="/wiki/Juan_Cresp%C3%AD" title="Juan Crespí">Juan Crespí</a> wrote, </p> <blockquote> <p>While crossing the basin, the scouts reported having seen some geysers of tar issuing from the ground like springs; it boils up molten, and the water runs to one side and the tar to the other. The scouts reported that they had come across many of these springs and had seen large swamps of them, enough, they said, to caulk many vessels. We were not so lucky ourselves as to see these tar geysers, much though we wished it; as it was some distance out of the way we were to take, the Governor [Portolá] did not want us to go past them. We christened them <i>Los Volcanes de Brea</i> [the Tar Volcanoes].<sup id="cite_ref-LA_okay_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LA_okay-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </blockquote> <p>Harrison Rogers, who accompanied <a href="/wiki/Jedediah_Smith" title="Jedediah Smith">Jedediah Smith</a> on his 1826 expedition to California, was shown a piece of the solidified asphalt while at <a href="/wiki/Mission_San_Gabriel" class="mw-redirect" title="Mission San Gabriel">Mission San Gabriel</a>, and noted in his journal, "The Citizens of the Country make great use of it to pitch the roofs of their houses".<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The La Brea Tar Pits and Hancock Park were formerly part of the <a href="/wiki/Ranchos_of_California" title="Ranchos of California">Mexican land grant</a> of <a href="/wiki/Rancho_La_Brea" title="Rancho La Brea">Rancho La Brea</a>. For some years, tar-covered bones were found on the property but were not initially recognized as fossils because the ranch had lost various animals—including horses, cattle, dogs, and even camels—whose bones closely resemble several of the fossil species. Initially, they mistook the bones in the pits for the remains of <a href="/wiki/Pronghorn" title="Pronghorn">pronghorn</a> or cattle that had become mired. The original Rancho La Brea land grant stipulated that the tar pits be open to the public for the use of the local <a href="/wiki/Pueblo" title="Pueblo">Pueblo</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>There were originally more than 100 separate pits of tar (or asphaltum) but most of those have been filled in with rock or dirt since settlement, leaving about a dozen accessible from ground level.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1886, the first excavation for land pitch in the village of La Brea was undertaken by <i>Messrs Turnbull, Stewart & co.</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:La_Brea_SW01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/La_Brea_SW01.jpg/220px-La_Brea_SW01.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/La_Brea_SW01.jpg/330px-La_Brea_SW01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/La_Brea_SW01.jpg/440px-La_Brea_SW01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6000" data-file-height="4000" /></a><figcaption>Early excavation (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1913</span> – c.<span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1915</span>)</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Excavations">Excavations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=La_Brea_Tar_Pits&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Excavations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><span><video id="mwe_player_0" poster="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Scientists_Search_Trove_of_Ice_Age_Fossils_in_Los_Angeles.ogv/220px-seek%3D157-Scientists_Search_Trove_of_Ice_Age_Fossils_in_Los_Angeles.ogv.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="220" height="165" data-durationhint="167" data-mwtitle="Scientists_Search_Trove_of_Ice_Age_Fossils_in_Los_Angeles.ogv" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons" resource="/wiki/File:Scientists_Search_Trove_of_Ice_Age_Fossils_in_Los_Angeles.ogv"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/14/Scientists_Search_Trove_of_Ice_Age_Fossils_in_Los_Angeles.ogv/Scientists_Search_Trove_of_Ice_Age_Fossils_in_Los_Angeles.ogv.480p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="480p.vp9.webm" data-width="640" data-height="480" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Scientists_Search_Trove_of_Ice_Age_Fossils_in_Los_Angeles.ogv" type="video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"" data-width="640" data-height="480" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/14/Scientists_Search_Trove_of_Ice_Age_Fossils_in_Los_Angeles.ogv/Scientists_Search_Trove_of_Ice_Age_Fossils_in_Los_Angeles.ogv.144p.mjpeg.mov" type="video/quicktime" data-transcodekey="144p.mjpeg.mov" data-width="192" data-height="144" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/14/Scientists_Search_Trove_of_Ice_Age_Fossils_in_Los_Angeles.ogv/Scientists_Search_Trove_of_Ice_Age_Fossils_in_Los_Angeles.ogv.240p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="240p.vp9.webm" data-width="320" data-height="240" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/14/Scientists_Search_Trove_of_Ice_Age_Fossils_in_Los_Angeles.ogv/Scientists_Search_Trove_of_Ice_Age_Fossils_in_Los_Angeles.ogv.360p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="360p.vp9.webm" data-width="480" data-height="360" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/14/Scientists_Search_Trove_of_Ice_Age_Fossils_in_Los_Angeles.ogv/Scientists_Search_Trove_of_Ice_Age_Fossils_in_Los_Angeles.ogv.360p.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-transcodekey="360p.webm" data-width="480" data-height="360" /></video></span><figcaption>2011 <a href="/wiki/Voice_of_America" title="Voice of America">VOA</a> report about the new discoveries in the pits</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Union_Oil" class="mw-redirect" title="Union Oil">Union Oil</a> geologist <a href="/wiki/William_Warren_Orcutt" title="William Warren Orcutt">W. W. Orcutt</a> is credited, in 1901, with first recognizing that fossilized prehistoric animal bones were preserved in pools of asphalt on the Hancock ranch. In commemoration of Orcutt's initial discovery, paleontologists named the <a href="/wiki/Pleistocene_coyote" title="Pleistocene coyote">La Brea coyote</a> (<i>Canis latrans orcutti</i>) in his honor.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/John_C._Merriam" class="mw-redirect" title="John C. Merriam">John C. Merriam</a> of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley" title="University of California, Berkeley">University of California, Berkeley</a> led much of the original work in this area early in the 20th century.<sup id="cite_ref-UCMP_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UCMP-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Contemporary excavations of the bones started in 1913. </p><p>In the 1940s and 1950s, public excitement was generated by the preparation of previously recovered large mammal bones.<sup id="cite_ref-LATIMES_1946_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LATIMES_1946-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A subsequent study demonstrated the fossil vertebrate material was well preserved, with little evidence of bacterial degradation of bone protein.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They are believed to be some 10–20,000 years old, dating from the <a href="/wiki/Last_Glacial_Period" title="Last Glacial Period">Last Glacial Period</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ley196312_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ley196312-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On February 18, 2009, George C. Page Museum announced the 2006 discovery of 16 fossil deposits that had been removed from the ground during the construction of an underground parking garage for the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_County_Museum_of_Art" title="Los Angeles County Museum of Art">Los Angeles County Museum of Art</a> next to the tar pits.<sup id="cite_ref-KCBS_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KCBS-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Among the finds are remains of a <a href="/wiki/Machairodontinae" title="Machairodontinae">saber-toothed cat</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dire_wolf" title="Dire wolf">dire wolves</a>, bison, <a href="/wiki/Equus_occidentalis" title="Equus occidentalis">horses</a>, a giant <a href="/wiki/Ground_sloth" title="Ground sloth">ground sloth</a>, turtles, snails, clams, millipedes, fish, gophers, and an <a href="/wiki/American_lion" title="American lion">American lion</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-KCBS_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KCBS-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-LA_TIMES_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LA_TIMES-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Also discovered is a nearly intact mammoth skeleton, nicknamed Zed; the only pieces missing are a rear leg, a vertebra, and the top of its skull, which was sheared off by construction equipment in preparation to build the parking structure.<sup id="cite_ref-LA_TIMES_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LA_TIMES-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-LaBreaMammothUSAToday_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LaBreaMammothUSAToday-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These fossils were packaged in boxes at the construction site and moved to a compound behind Pit 91, on Page Museum property, so that construction could continue. Twenty-three large accumulations of tar and specimens were taken to the Page Museum. These deposits are worked on under the name "Project 23". </p><p>As work for the public transit <a href="/wiki/D_Line_(Los_Angeles_Metro)" title="D Line (Los Angeles Metro)">D Line</a> is <a href="/wiki/D_Line_Extension" title="D Line Extension">extended</a>, museum researchers know more tar pits will be uncovered, for example near the intersection of Wilshire and Curson.<sup id="cite_ref-KCBS_14-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KCBS-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In an exploratory subway dig in 2014 on the <a href="/wiki/Miracle_Mile,_Los_Angeles" title="Miracle Mile, Los Angeles">Miracle Mile</a>, prehistoric objects unearthed included <a href="/wiki/Geoduck" title="Geoduck">geoducks</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sand_dollar" title="Sand dollar">sand dollars</a>, and a 10-foot limb (3.0 m) from a pine tree, of a type now found in <a href="/wiki/Central_California" title="Central California">Central California</a>'s woodlands.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="George_C._Page_Museum">George C. Page Museum</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=La_Brea_Tar_Pits&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: George C. Page Museum"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Page_Museum.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Page_Museum.jpg/220px-Page_Museum.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Page_Museum.jpg/330px-Page_Museum.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Page_Museum.jpg/440px-Page_Museum.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2522" data-file-height="1681" /></a><figcaption>The La Brea Tar Pits Museum in Hancock Park</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1913, <a href="/wiki/George_Allan_Hancock" title="George Allan Hancock">George Allan Hancock</a>, the owner of Rancho La Brea, granted the <a href="/wiki/Natural_History_Museum_of_Los_Angeles_County" title="Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County">Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County</a> exclusive excavation rights at the Tar Pits for two years. In those two years, the museum was able to extract 750,000 specimens at 96 sites, guaranteeing that a large collection of fossils would remain consolidated and available to the community.<sup id="cite_ref-tarpits.org_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tarpits.org-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Then in 1924, Hancock donated 23 acres (9.3 ha) to Los Angeles County with the stipulation that the county provide for the preservation of the park and the exhibition of fossils found there.<sup id="cite_ref-tarpits.org_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tarpits.org-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The George C. Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries, part of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, was built next to the tar pits in Hancock Park on <a href="/wiki/Wilshire_Boulevard" title="Wilshire Boulevard">Wilshire Boulevard</a>. It was named for a local philanthropist. Construction began in 1975, and the museum opened to the public in 1977.<sup id="cite_ref-About_Page_Museum_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-About_Page_Museum-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The area is part of urban Los Angeles in the <a href="/wiki/Miracle_Mile_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Miracle Mile District">Miracle Mile District</a>. </p><p>The museum tells the story of the tar pits and presents specimens excavated from them. Visitors can walk around the park and see the tar pits. On the grounds of the park are life-sized models of prehistoric animals in or near the tar pits. Of more than 100 pits, only Pit 91 is still regularly excavated by researchers and can be seen at the Pit 91 viewing station. In addition to Pit 91, the one other ongoing excavation is called "Project 23". Paleontologists supervise and direct the work of volunteers at both sites.<sup id="cite_ref-Page_Museum_web_site_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Page_Museum_web_site-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As a result of a design competition in 2019, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County chose <a href="/wiki/Weiss/Manfredi" title="Weiss/Manfredi">Weiss/Manfredi</a> over <a href="/wiki/Dorte_Mandrup" title="Dorte Mandrup">Dorte Mandrup</a> and <a href="/wiki/Diller_Scofidio_%2B_Renfro" title="Diller Scofidio + Renfro">Diller Scofidio + Renfro</a> to redesign the park, including by adding a pedestrian walkway framing Lake Pitt, which is 3,281 feet (1,000 metres) long.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The museum is featured prominently in the 1992 cult classic film <i><a href="/wiki/Encino_Man" title="Encino Man">Encino Man</a></i>, where the title character recollects he was previously a caveman during his exploration of the museum's exhibits.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Heritage_site">Heritage site</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=La_Brea_Tar_Pits&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Heritage site"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In respect of it being the "richest paleontological site on Earth for terrestrial fossils of late <a href="/wiki/Quaternary" title="Quaternary">Quaternary</a> age," the <a href="/wiki/International_Union_of_Geological_Sciences" title="International Union of Geological Sciences">International Union of Geological Sciences</a> (IUGS) included the "Late Quaternary asphalt seeps and paleontological site of La Brea Tar Pits" in its assemblage of 100 geological heritage sites around the world in a listing published in October 2022. The organization defines an IUGS Geological Heritage Site as "a key place with geological elements and/or processes of international scientific relevance, used as a reference, and/or with a substantial contribution to the development of geological sciences through history."<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Flora_and_fauna">Flora and fauna</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=La_Brea_Tar_Pits&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Flora and fauna"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/List_of_fossil_species_in_the_La_Brea_Tar_Pits" class="mw-redirect" title="List of fossil species in the La Brea Tar Pits">List of fossil species in the La Brea Tar Pits</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:La_Brea_Tar_Pits.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/La_Brea_Tar_Pits.jpg/260px-La_Brea_Tar_Pits.jpg" decoding="async" width="260" height="105" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/La_Brea_Tar_Pits.jpg/390px-La_Brea_Tar_Pits.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/La_Brea_Tar_Pits.jpg/520px-La_Brea_Tar_Pits.jpg 2x" data-file-width="829" data-file-height="334" /></a><figcaption>La Brea Tar Pits fauna as depicted by <a href="/wiki/Charles_R._Knight" title="Charles R. Knight">Charles R. Knight</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Among the prehistoric <a href="/wiki/Pleistocene" title="Pleistocene">Pleistocene</a> species associated with the La Brea Tar Pits are <a href="/wiki/Columbian_mammoths" class="mw-redirect" title="Columbian mammoths">Columbian mammoths</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dire_wolf" title="Dire wolf">dire wolves</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arctodus" title="Arctodus">short-faced bears</a>, <a href="/wiki/American_lion" title="American lion">American lions</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ground_sloth" title="Ground sloth">ground sloths</a> (predominantly <i><a href="/wiki/Paramylodon" title="Paramylodon">Paramylodon harlani</a></i>, with much rarer <i><a href="/wiki/Megalonyx" title="Megalonyx">Megalonyx jeffersonii</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Nothrotheriops" title="Nothrotheriops">Nothrotheriops shastensis</a>)</i> and the <a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_fossils" title="List of U.S. state fossils">state fossil</a> of California, the saber-toothed cat (<i><a href="/wiki/Smilodon" title="Smilodon">Smilodon</a> fatalis</i>). Contrary to popular belief, the tar pits don't contain dinosaur remains, as these were extinct before the pits formed.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The park is known for producing myriad mammal fossils dating from the <a href="/wiki/Wisconsin_glaciation" title="Wisconsin glaciation">Wisconsin glaciation</a>. While mammal fossils generate significant interest, other fossils including fossilized insects and plants, and even pollen grains, are also valued. These fossils help define a picture of what is thought to have been a cooler, moister climate in the Los Angeles basin during the glacial age. Microfossils are retrieved from the matrix of asphalt and sandy clay by washing with a solvent to remove the petroleum, then picking through the remains under a high-powered lens. </p><p>Historically, the majority of the mammals excavated from the La Brea deposits had been large carnivores, supporting a hypothesized "carnivore trap" in which large herbivores entrapped in asphalt attracted predators and scavengers which then became entrapped while trying to steal a quick meal. However, new research with an eye towards microfossils has revealed a stunning diversity and abundance of many types of mammals. According to paleontologist Thomas Halliday, "Rancho La Brea Tar Pits... where big herbivores typically get stuck in tar which naturally seeps from the ground, and as a result, you get huge concentrations of just specifically herbivores. You get a herbivorous sample of the ecosystem and very few carnivores, except those that are trying to scavenge on the already dead carcasses that have just got stuck in the tar."<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bacteria">Bacteria</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=La_Brea_Tar_Pits&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Bacteria"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Methane" title="Methane">Methane</a> gas escapes from the tar pits, causing bubbles that make the asphalt appear to boil. Asphalt and methane appear under surrounding buildings and require special operations for removal to prevent the weakening of building foundations. In 2007, researchers from <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Riverside" title="University of California, Riverside">UC Riverside</a> discovered that the bubbles were caused by hardy forms of bacteria embedded in the natural asphalt. After consuming petroleum, the bacteria release methane. Around 200 to 300 species of bacteria were newly discovered here.<sup id="cite_ref-LAT051407_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LAT051407-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Human_presence">Human presence</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=La_Brea_Tar_Pits&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Human presence"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Only one human has been found, a partial skeleton of <a href="/wiki/La_Brea_Woman" title="La Brea Woman">La Brea Woman</a><sup id="cite_ref-Merriam1914_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Merriam1914-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> dated to around 10,000 <a href="/wiki/Calendar_year" title="Calendar year">calendar years</a> (about 9,000 <a href="/wiki/Radiocarbon_year" class="mw-redirect" title="Radiocarbon year">radiocarbon years</a>) <a href="/wiki/Before_present" class="mw-redirect" title="Before present">BP</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-O'Keefeetal2009_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-O'Keefeetal2009-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who was 17 to 25 years old at death<sup id="cite_ref-Kennedy1989_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kennedy1989-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and found associated with remains of a domestic dog, so was interpreted to have been ceremonially interred.<sup id="cite_ref-Reynolds1985_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reynolds1985-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2016, however, the dog was determined to be much younger in date.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Also, some even older fossils showed possible tool marks, indicating humans active in the area at the time. Bones of saber-toothed cats from La Brea showing signs of "artificial" cut marks at oblique angles to the long axis of each bone were radiocarbon dated to 15,200 ± 800 BP (uncalibrated).<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> If these cuts are in fact tool marks resultant from butchering activities, then this material would provide the earliest solid evidence for human association with the Los Angeles Basin. Yet it is also possible that there was some residual contamination of the material as a result of saturation by asphaltum, influencing the radiocarbon dates.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gallery">Gallery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=La_Brea_Tar_Pits&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Gallery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 162.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 160.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Tar_and_flora.jpeg" class="mw-file-description" title="Tar and wild flower run within La Brea campus (2014)"><img alt="Tar and wild flower run within La Brea campus (2014)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Tar_and_flora.jpeg/241px-Tar_and_flora.jpeg" decoding="async" width="161" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Tar_and_flora.jpeg/362px-Tar_and_flora.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Tar_and_flora.jpeg/482px-Tar_and_flora.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="1936" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Tar and wild flower run within La Brea campus (2014)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 182px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 180px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Mammuthus_columbi_Page.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Skeleton of a Columbian mammoth from the tar pits, displayed in the George C. Page Museum"><img alt="Skeleton of a Columbian mammoth from the tar pits, displayed in the George C. Page Museum" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Mammuthus_columbi_Page.jpg/270px-Mammuthus_columbi_Page.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Mammuthus_columbi_Page.jpg/405px-Mammuthus_columbi_Page.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Mammuthus_columbi_Page.jpg/540px-Mammuthus_columbi_Page.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="1728" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Skeleton of a <a href="/wiki/Columbian_mammoth" title="Columbian mammoth">Columbian mammoth</a> from the tar pits, displayed in the George C. Page Museum</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 92px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 90px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Smilodon_and_paramylodon_at_la_brea.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Models of a saber-toothed cat (Smilodon fatalis) and ground sloth on display in 2023"><img alt="Models of a saber-toothed cat (Smilodon fatalis) and ground sloth on display in 2023" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Smilodon_and_paramylodon_at_la_brea.jpg/135px-Smilodon_and_paramylodon_at_la_brea.jpg" decoding="async" width="90" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Smilodon_and_paramylodon_at_la_brea.jpg/202px-Smilodon_and_paramylodon_at_la_brea.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Smilodon_and_paramylodon_at_la_brea.jpg/270px-Smilodon_and_paramylodon_at_la_brea.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1537" data-file-height="2049" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Models of a <a href="/wiki/Saber-toothed_cat" class="mw-redirect" title="Saber-toothed cat">saber-toothed cat</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Smilodon" title="Smilodon">Smilodon</a> fatalis</i>) and <a href="/wiki/Paramylodon" title="Paramylodon">ground sloth</a> on display in 2023 </div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 151.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 149.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:La_Brea_SW04.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Fossil crate (2021)"><img alt="Fossil crate (2021)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/La_Brea_SW04.jpg/224px-La_Brea_SW04.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/La_Brea_SW04.jpg/335px-La_Brea_SW04.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/La_Brea_SW04.jpg/447px-La_Brea_SW04.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4896" data-file-height="3943" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Fossil crate (2021)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 138px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 136px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:La_Brea_SW03.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Lab technician working on recent specimen ZED (2021)"><img alt="Lab technician working on recent specimen ZED (2021)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/La_Brea_SW03.jpg/204px-La_Brea_SW03.jpg" decoding="async" width="136" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/La_Brea_SW03.jpg/307px-La_Brea_SW03.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/La_Brea_SW03.jpg/409px-La_Brea_SW03.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4303" data-file-height="3789" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Lab technician working on recent specimen ZED (2021)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 124px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 122px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:La_Brea_SW02.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Lab technician doing a 3-D scan of a fossil (2021)"><img alt="Lab technician doing a 3-D scan of a fossil (2021)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/La_Brea_SW02.jpg/183px-La_Brea_SW02.jpg" decoding="async" width="122" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/La_Brea_SW02.jpg/275px-La_Brea_SW02.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/La_Brea_SW02.jpg/366px-La_Brea_SW02.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4071" data-file-height="4000" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Lab technician doing a 3-D scan of a fossil (2021)</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=La_Brea_Tar_Pits&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span 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