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Downtown Los Angeles has a pretty famous park and museum with fossils of preserved megafauna that have been extinct for millennia still regularly found just chi
by nonameiguess 6mo ago
Downtown Los Angeles has a pretty famous park and museum with fossils of preserved megafauna that have been extinct for millennia still regularly found just chilling in a bubbling lake of oil. I even worked there 25 years ago.
- ranger_danger 6mo agoWhat's it called?
- Clamchop 6mo agoLa Brea tarpits
- angst_ridden 6mo agoThe the tar tar pits. (La Brea means "the tar"). A bit west of downtown, too, but I'm an annoying pedant.
- osidjqjdjwj 6mo agoThen it’s actually “The tar tar pits”. ;) Sounds kinda like a Mario 64 stage.
- traderj0e 6mo agoLa Brea tarpits, the essential LA elementary school field trip
- cardiffspaceman 6mo agoAnd well known to fans of Dr Demento. This is the Wikipedia about “Hancock Park” the city park that contains the tar pits and museum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hancock_Park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hancock_Park There is also a district of the city that contains NIMBYs and other fossils, by a similar name.
- unsignedchar 6mo agothe museum is small but excellent; it has a wall covered just in Dire Wolf skulls found there