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La Brea Tar Pits
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La Brea Tar Pits

Fossil field in Hancock Park (formerly Rancho La Brea), Los Angeles, Calif., U.S. It is the site of “pitch springs” oozing crude oil, formerly used by local Indians for waterproofing, and was explored by Gaspar de Portolá's expedition in 1769. The tar pits contain the fossilized bones of Pleistocene mammals that became entrapped there; they include mammoths, mastodons, and sabre-toothed cats. The Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits contains more than one million prehistoric specimens exhumed from the pits.
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The study's authors examined fossilized jaws from two distinct dire wolf populations preserved in the Rancho La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles.
Teeth reveal changing times in the Pleistocene. (Bone Crushers) by Cobb, K. / Science News
The museum is at Rancho La Brea Tar Pits, with ice age fossil displays.
KIDS/SNEAK PEEK : DISCOVER WHAT YOU'VE GOT AT FOSSIL MUSEUM by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
The reservoir site has the potential of becoming the Inland Empire's equivalent of the Rancho La Brea Tar Pits," Majors said, referring to the famous Los Angeles ancient asphalt deposit.
Metropolitan to begin work on dams of Southland's largest reservoir by Business Wire
 
 
 
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