AmericaJR’s Jason Rzucidlo recently visited the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. Right in the heart of L.A. sits the world’s most powerful gateway to the Ice Age. The asphalt seeps at La Brea Tar Pits are the only active urban fossil dig site in the world. Plants and animals from the last 50,000 years are discovered here every day. Outside, you can watch excavators carve fossils out of the asphalt. Inside the museum at La Brea Tar Pits (established in 1977 as the George C. Page Museum), our staff prepares these discoveries in the see-through Fossil Lab. You’ll see the final result in our exhibitions: extraordinary saber-toothed cats, mammoths, dire wolves, and mastodons, as well as the tiny, but scientifically significant, microfossils of insects, plants, mammals, and reptiles.
Welcome to the La Brea Tar Pits! 
AmericaJR’s Jason Rzucidlo poses for a photo 
While the outdoor exhibits are free, there is a small admission fee to go inside the museum. 
Visit the La Brea Tar Pits at 5801 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036. For tickets and more info, go to: https://tarpits.org