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La Brea Tar Pits and Museum

Dire wolf exhibit at La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, Los Angeles.

Duration

30 min
    • The Pits currently houses over 10,000 to 40,000-year-old asphalt deposits across 650 species
    • Fun fact - the largest single fossil specimen on display is a juniper tree which is 14,500 years old
    • Excitingly, the museum is researching recently unearthed fossils in a project that could double the Museum’s collection of specimens and inform decades of new research
    • Outside is "Hancock Park", a Pleistocene Garden containing life-size replicas of extinct mammals that once roamed the Los Angeles Basin
    • General admission ticket
    • Food & beverages (guests have access to the museum cafe)
    • Souvenirs
  • These tickets can't be cancelled or rescheduled.

Go back to the Ice Age at the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum. See fossils of saber-toothed cats, mammoths, dire-wolves and other pre-historic animals. You can also watch as scientists unfold paleontological processes in the Fossil Labs.

  • Your e-tickets will be sent to you within 20 minutes of purchase. Please carry a printed copy of the same to the venue.

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