Fossil Trees Help Grow Our Understanding of Ancient Climate
A new study reveals how ancient trees from La Brea Tar Pits helped warm the planet during the last ice age by coughing up CO2
Exhibitions
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LBTP
Tours & Activities
Join a Museum Educator to hear about exciting discoveries from the Tar Pits! These 20-minute presentations highlight what we can learn at the Tar Pits, followed by a Q&A opportunity. Topics are always changing.
- 3:30 pm
3:30 pm daily: Meet at the Fossil Lab
11 am Sat./Sun.: Meet at the flagpole outside Museum
LBTP
Tours & Activities
Join a Museum Educator to hear about exciting discoveries from the Tar Pits! These 20-minute presentations highlight what we can learn at the Tar Pits, followed by a Q&A opportunity. Topics are always changing.
- 3:30 pm
3:30 pm daily: Meet at the Fossil Lab
11 am Sat./Sun.: Meet at the flagpole outside Museum
LBTP
Tours & Activities
Join a Museum Educator to hear about exciting discoveries from the Tar Pits! These 20-minute presentations highlight what we can learn at the Tar Pits, followed by a Q&A opportunity. Topics are always changing.
- 11:00 am
- 3:30 pm
3:30 pm daily: Meet at the Fossil Lab
11 am Sat./Sun.: Meet at the flagpole outside Museum
Stories
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Join Adam Clause, Herpetology and Urban Nature Research Center Postdoctoral Fellow, as he explores what he has been doing while sheltering-in-place, his research on how plastic litter might be threatening non-marine turtles, and how he worked with other departments in the museum to make his discoveries.
News & Press
The exceptionally rare fossil skull of a new bird species from the Age of Dinosaurs reveals that avian skulls achieved their recognizably modern shape using archaic structures—an unexpected but stunning example of parallel evolution—while also unearthing a missing link in the long evolutionary history of the bird brain.