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La Brea Tar Pits and Museum | Let’s Go Places

Name: La Brea Tar Pits and Museum | Let’s Go Places
Uploaded: 2026-02-11T15:31:00-0800
Duration: 2 min 58 s
Description: The La Brea Tar Pits are an Ice Age fossil site that is still actively excavated, with the iconic Lake Pit showing off the recreation of a mammoth trapped in “tar.”

The La Brea Tar Pits are an Ice Age fossil site that is still actively excavated, with the iconic Lake Pit showing off the recreation of a mammoth trapped in “tar.”