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2 weeks ago

WEISS/MANFREDI Reveals Updated Designs for La Brea Tar Pits Transformation in Los Angeles

La Brea Tar Pits will be transformed into a continuous public and research campus integrating museum, landscape, excavation sites, and a 1-kilometer pedestrian loop.
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4 months ago

You might be surprised by how many fossils are from the La Brea Tar Pits

The La Brea Tar Pits are a group of natural asphalt pools in the Miracle Mile neighborhood of Los Angeles. In the middle of the nation's second-largest city, millions of fossils of animals that were trapped in the pits have been found. On Oct. 6, 1875, professor William Denton of The Boston Society of Natural History published the first scientific description of bones he had found in the La Brea Tar Pits.
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