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La Brea Tar Pits

by Allen Cox

Go to the La Brea Tar Pits in L.A.
It is a part of the Miracle Mile District and it is a very interesting place to visit.
The La Brea Tar Pits constitute one of the world’s best and most important collection of Ice Age fossils.

Inside the George Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits, you’ll find exhibits selected from over 1 million fossils recovered from the La Brea Tar Pits. They include a wood fragment about 40, 000 years old, and skeletons of dire wolves, saber-toothed cats, mammoths, short-faced bears, giant sloths, ancient buffalo as well as many birds and other creatures.

Besides the exhibits, visitors can watch a short film about how the La Brea Tar Pits were formed and another about how scientists have investigated their contents. Kids especially like the “What It’s Like to be Trapped in Tar” exhibit and when a docent is on duty, they can go hunting for “fossils” and get a certificate to prove their finds.

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