La Brea Tar Pits

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La Bre·a Tar Pits

(lə brā′ə)

A cluster of oil seeps in Los Angeles, California. They have yielded a wealth of fossils from prehistoric animals and plants that became trapped in the asphalt of the pools between 40,000 and 8,000 years ago.

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Cut to three years ago when Korth-McDonnell packed up her young family and did just that, planting the flag at Huge with a permanent office in mid-city Los Angeles, just down the street from the giant fiberglass mammoths lodged in the La Brea Tar Pits. She prepared to be underwhelmed by the move, but about a year into it, after working with clients including Lexus, Scion, FX network and Hulu, she had a sort of epiphany.

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If there was a minor disappointment it was the La Brea Tar Pits. I'd imagined a boiling lake of pitch but it was like a mucky old village pond.

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Takeuchi (Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits), and Guangpu Xie (Gansu Provincial Museum).

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The first preserved leafcutter bees from the Pleistocene epoch have turned up in the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles.

Tar pits yield Ice Age bee nest

Back in January, the La Brea Tar Pits bubbled in the background as Glynn and her crew pounded the lid onto the second plywood mold.

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They don't use tar for roads." And those famous La Brea Tar Pits in California?

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La Brea Tar Pits is another site you should not miss given a chance to visit the city of Los Angeles.

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