The La Brea Tar Pits and Museum in Los Angeles, CA | Museum Access (Full Episode)

The La Brea Tar Pits located in urban Los Angeles are one of the most unique museums in America. Join host Leslie Mueller as she explores this urban ice-age excavation site and the museum that boasts a collection of millions of fossils found in the tar pits including those of mammoths, mastodons, giant sloths, saber-toothed cats, and many more.

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[KB-xpdq]

I vividly remember going on a school field trip to this museum in elementary school (with my little packed lunch from home; soda wrapped in layers of foil in the hope in would stay cold lol). I also got to see the full King Tut exhibit in 5th grade (and that blew my mind; I've been interested in Ancient Egypt ever since). It's such a shame that schools just can't afford to provide kids with those kinds of exposures anymore. We went on a LOT of field trips back then, but those are the two that really stuck out to me.

[stevenhigby]

I always wanted to check out this museum.

[waynewilliams]

I'm surprised that they would roam that close, with all that traffic around!!😊

[raywhitehead]

This Museum is only a few miles away from other great museums.

[newworldconcepts]

"Narrow environmental requirements"-me 100%

[zeekwolfe]

This video has too much talk and not enough show of the skeletons and reconstructed bodies of now extinct animals. The entire area of the La Brea Tar Pits is surrounded by other museums...LACMA, LA County Museum of Art, the Academy of Motion Pictures museum in the old May Company building, and the Peterson Auto Museum across Wilshire Blvd. Oh, and if hungry, stop at Pinks Hot Dog stand just up the street a ways. Hmm, not bad for a person that lives in small-town Kentucky.

[yikes]

I thought congress was in Washington in the swamp. ?

[wlhgmk]

Just a wee niggle. If we are going to call the period between the previous (Eemian) inter glacial period, some 125, 000 years ago and the present (Holocene) inter glacial an ice age then we need a new term for the past 2.75m years in which there have been somewhere between 30 and 50 cycles of glaciation and inter glaciation. The terms matter because we have arguments amongst even some pretty prominent scientists that the demise of the mega fauna of the Americas was due to the end of the 'ice age' In fact, the mega fauna survived, thank you kindly, many many cycles of glacial inter glacial fluctuation. The only difference this time was the introduction of a new species into the Americans (us).

[MASTERRDEYE]

Too much talking and not enough showing.

[AlCatrraz]

For those who do not know... BREA, in Spanish, means TAR !
LA BREA TAR PITS is A REDUNDENT name...

When I meet someone who say I AM FROM LA BREA (city) I respond:: THAT’S THE PITS ….