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Exhibitions

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Exhibition | Tar Pits

What happens after the fossils at La Brea Tar Pits are excavated? This is where you find out.

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Exhibition | Tar Pits

Travel back in time with Titans of the Ice Age.

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Adventures in Nature Day Camp: Marvelous Mammals

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Adventures in Nature Day Camp: Marvelous Mammals

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Adventures in Nature Day Camp: Marvelous Mammals

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Adventures in Nature Day Camp: Marvelous Mammals

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Adventures in Nature Day Camp: Marvelous Mammals

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Digital Guide to La Brea Tar Pits

Explore La Brea Tar Pits and over 160 international museums, galleries, sculpture parks, gardens, and cultural spaces on Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture app.

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Elephant Hill Community Nature Celebration and Habitat Survey

Join community members and scientists, Saturday, October 14, to celebrate and study nature on Elephant Hill, an open space in North East L.A. valuable to humans and wildlife.

Life reconstruction of fire at La Brea Tar Pits during the Pleistocene as bison are stuck during a wildfire

Why Did the Ice Age Titans Go Extinct?

A new study reveals that human impacts in an environment made fire-prone by climate change and herbivore loss led to large mammals vanishing from southern California.

Digital mastadon at the Tar Pits

Geek Out in an Ice Age Daydream

Tar AR brings Ice Age animals back to L.A.

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Mammoths, meet the metaverse

Paleontologists from La Brea Tar Pits develop a whole herd of scientifically accurate extinct animals to use in AR and VR

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Earth's First Giant

The two-meter skull of a humongous new ichthyosaur species, Earth’s first known giant creature, reveals how both the extinct marine reptiles and modern whales became giants.

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Digging Deeper: Mammoths and Mastodons

Join us as we learn about Mammoths and Mastodons.

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Members Q&A with LBTP Lab Manager Stephany Potze and Assistant Curator Dr. Regan Dunn

Asphalt is dirty business, but scientists at the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum have spent over 100 years learning how to excavate, clean and conserve the multitude of fossil specimens plucked from the tar at Hancock Park.

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Painting of ice age Los Angeles featuring animals found as fossils at the Tar Pits

How do we know what a saber-toothed cat looked like? Short answer? We don’t! Here at La Brea Tar Pits, we only find the bones of ancient animals, so we have to get creative to visualize it.

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Regan Dunn

Happy Hour with Dr. Regan Dunn

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Giants of the Ice Age

Discover some of the magnificent beasts that we’ve excavated right here at La Brea Tar Pits.

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News & Press

Mammoths and Mastodons

Invigorating Visitor Experience with Over 20 Hands-On Displays and 3D Replicas of Ice Age Giants

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