La Brea Tar Pits
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When Tara Met Blog
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Humor & Satire
Back when my friend was visiting we visited the La Brea
Tar Pits, which I've been wanting to see ever since
My Girl 2 (there's a scene that takes place there). Anyway, I knew therewould begated off tar pits to look atwhere many prehistoric/ice age animal fossils were found, but I didn't realize the tar would be elsewhere on the grounds and in the area. When crossing the street toget to the outdoor museumpark, I could smell the tar fumes and spot some taroozing out of the cracks in the sidewalk and in patches all along the pretty grounds around the pits. I even got to play with a stick in the tar and yes, this amused me.
It was surrealreading that bones fromextinct species, likethesabor-toothedcat, have been escavted from these pitts, while children were now running up and down the steep grassy slope just yards away.The oldest fossil from Rancho La Brea is awood fragment dated at around 40,000 years old and since 1906, more than one million bones have been recovered representing over 231 species of vertebrates.It justreminds youof how old our earth is and how much it has evolved, yet in this onearea of Los Angeles you canpractically step back in time to an era before people.It was especially creepy to see an art sculpture of a Wally Mammoth stuck in the tar as a child mammoth looks on at its mother from the safe banks. Distrubing.
