Images of the La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles – California, taken in January 2016.
Flying back from a trip to Hawai’i and American Samoa I spent a few days in the Los Angeles area. With time before my flight back to Tucson I decided to drop by the Le Brea Tar Pits, a sight that I’ve always wanted to tour.
The idea that there is a place like this in the middle of Los Angeles is interesting. This is where asphalt seeps to the surface from a large underground oil field and over thousands of years has trapped plants and animals of all kinds in a sticky grave perfectly preserving their remains.
Museum entrance at the La Brea Tar Pits
Exhibit in the Lake Pit at the La Brea Tar Pits
Fossil Lab and the tusk of Zed, a Columbian Mammoth, at the La Brea Tar Pits
Saber-tooth tiger skeleton at the La Brea Tar Pits
Columbian Mammoth skeleton at the La Brea Tar Pits
Pit 91 at the La Brea Tar Pits
Layout of Pit 91 at the La Brea Tar Pits
Close up of Pit 91 at the La Brea Tar Pits
One of the many Fossil Crates at the La Brea Tar Pits
View of the Observation Pit at the La Brea Tar Pits
Sticky asphalt bubble from the oil field below at the La Brea Tar Pits
An asphalt bubble pops at the La Brea Tar Pits
Fossils in the Observation Pit at the La Brea Tar Pits
Baby mammoth fossil in the Observation Pit at the La Brea Tar Pits
Wolf jawbone fossil in the Observation Pit at the La Brea Tar Pits
We brought the kids here when they were younger. La Brea means tar, so the kids liked calling it the tar tar pits *_* looking for to showing them your pics!