A life-size fiberglass model of an extinct mammoth from the Pleistocene Epoch is shown sinking into a pool of asphalt that oozes from the earth in front of an observation deck at the La Brea Tar Pits Museum in Los Angeles, California, USA. Over a million fossils from these Ice Age mammals and 650 other species have been excavated in Hancock Park since the early 1900s. Many of them went on public display when museum opened in 1977. Today's visitors can watch paleontologists at the museum prepare recent fossil finds for exhibit.
A life-size fiberglass model of an extinct mammoth from the Pleistocene Epoch is shown sinking into a pool of asphalt that oozes from the earth in front of an observation deck at the La Brea Tar Pits Museum in Los Angeles, California, USA. Over a million fossils from these Ice Age mammals and 650 other species have been excavated in Hancock Park since the early 1900s. Many of them went on public display when museum opened in 1977. Today's visitors can watch paleontologists at the museum prepare recent fossil finds for exhibit.
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Location: in Hancock Park at 5801 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, USA
Photo credit: © Michele and Tom Grimm / Alamy / Afripics
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