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Mammoths
Exhibitions
Fossil Lab
What happens after the fossils at La Brea Tar Pits are excavated? This is where you find out.
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3D Theater
Travel back in time with
Titans of the Ice Age
.
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Stories
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Walking With Giant Sloths
Take a (virtual) summer road trip to White Sands National Park to explore the fossilized tracks of giant ground sloths
Mammoths vs Mastodons: A La Brea Tar Pits Trunk Show
Discover the differences between Columbian mammoths and American mastodons
Digital Guide to La Brea Tar Pits
Explore La Brea Tar Pits—including the new Mark Dion exhibit
Excavations
—as well as over 160 international museums, galleries, sculpture parks, gardens, and cultural spaces on our Bloomberg Connects free digital guide.
Elephant Hill Community Nature Celebration and Habitat Survey
Join community members and scientists, Saturday, October 14, to celebrate and study nature on Elephant Hill, an open space in North East L.A. valuable to humans and wildlife.
Why Did the Ice Age Titans Go Extinct?
A new study reveals that human impacts in an environment made fire-prone by climate change and herbivore loss led to large mammals vanishing from southern California.
Geek Out in an Ice Age Daydream
Tar AR brings Ice Age animals back to L.A.
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Samuel Oschin Global Center
for Ice Age Research
Samuel Oschin Global Center
for Ice Age Research
A New Scientific Research Hub
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Giants of the Ice Age
Discover some of the magnificent beasts that we’ve excavated right here at La Brea Tar Pits.
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