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Can you believe that one of the world's most well-known Ice Age fossil sites is in the middle of Los Angeles? The La Brea Tar Pits -- oozing, smelly, and fatally sticky -- have been around since the Ice Age. Hundreds of different animal and plants species met their demise in these pits, providing us today with an amazing and exciting array of fossils from more than 600 now-extinct species.

The Page Museum at Rancho La Brea Tar Pits, which houses finds from the tar pits, has gained worldwide fame for its unsurpassed collection of extinct Ice Age animals and plants, including the ever-popular saber-toothed tiger and the wooly mammoth.

Bring the kids here -- because what kid isn't fascinated with prehistoric fossils? Adults will also enjoy the visit as well. While touring hundreds of fossils and contemplating life-size replicas of Ice Age animals, you can watch paleontologists at work in the observation area of the museum.

Take a walk by the actual tar pits themselves, which are available for free public viewing. Here, you can see -- and smell -- the bubbling tar, and watch excavations in the summer at Pit 91.

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Hours: Mon.-Fri. 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sat., Sun., holidays: 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Address:
5801 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036

URL: http://www.tarpits.org