The La Brea Tar Pits is an active paleontological research site in urban Los Angeles. Hancock Park was formed around a group of tar pits where natural asphalt (also called asphaltum, bitumen, or pitch; brea in Spanish) has seeped up from the ground for tens of thousands of years. Over many centuries, the bones of trapped animals have been preserved. The George C. Page Museum is dedicated to researching the tar pits and displaying specimens from the animals that died there. La Brea Tar Pits is a registered National Natural Landmark.
^"Hancock Park". Office of Historic Preservation, California State Parks. Retrieved October 7, 2012.
Tarpits, sometimes referred to as asphalt pits, are large asphalt deposits. They form in the presence of petroleum, which is created when decayed organic...
prehistoric and extinct species whose fossils have been found in the LaBreaTarPits, located in present-day Hancock Park, a city park on the Miracle Mile...
LaBrea Woman was a human whose remains were found in the LaBreaTarPits in Los Angeles, California. The remains, first discovered in the pits in 1914...
insects recovered from the pits are on display at the Baku Natural-Historical Museum. LaBreaTarPits – group of tarpits around which Hancock Park was...
named taxa with Felis atrox. At least 80 individuals are known from LaBreaTarPits and the fossils define the subspecies, giving a comprehensive view...
Carpinteria TarPits are a natural asphalt lake areas similar to Tierra de Brea Trinidad and Tobago, Lake Guanoco in Venezuela and the LaBreaTarPits (Los...
largest collection of its fossils has been obtained from the Rancho LaBreaTarPits in Los Angeles. Dire wolf remains have been found across a broad range...
evolved from Megantereon. The hundreds of specimens obtained from the LaBreaTarPits in Los Angeles constitute the largest collection of Smilodon fossils...
Hollywood, and parts of West Hollywood. The grant included the famous LaBreaTarPits. The title awarded by the alcalde in 1828 was confirmed by José María...
are from the Californian LaBreaTarPits. All remains except one Early Pleistocene partial skeleton from the Leisey Shell Pit near Charlotte Harbor, Florida...
LaBreaTarPits; the adjacent George C. Page Museum of LaBrea Discoveries, which displays the fossils of Ice Age prehistoric mammals from the tar pits;...
Smilodon skeletons in the LaBreatarpits in California supports the hypothesis, as well. The animals caught in the pits would have been dying or dead...
Oregon, Idaho and Florida), Cuba and Bolivia. It has been found in the LaBreaTarPits. It is a relatively large species of Ciconia, with a height of over...
The McKittrick TarPits (also McKittrick Oil Seeps and McKittrick BreaPits) are a series of natural asphalt lakes situated in the western part of Kern...
his contributions to paleontology, which brought the fossils of the LaBreaTarPits to the attention of the scientific community. Orcutt was born in Dodge...
Three of the better known tar seep locations in California are McKittrick TarPits, Carpinteria TarPits and the LaBreaTarPits. At Kern River Oil Field...
Oraristix brea, the LaBrea owl, is an extinct owl reported from the Upper Pleistocene asphalt deposits of the LaBreaTarPits in Los Angeles, California...