La Brea Tar Pits Photo Tour
The Page Museum and the park are just off
Wilshire Blvd near La Brea Ave.
The park outside:
- giant sloths near the western
pit building with the fossil rock
- north american lions statue by
entrance; lion roaring, from Warsaw
Animal Sound Archives
- mammoths family by tar lake -tar bubbling up even
now; large mammoth in the reeds;
elephant
audio sound
- mural sections 1,2 on the museum roof of
prehistoric live at the pits, goes all around museum
- prehistoric bear also on the west
side of the park
- pit with fossil bones embedded in
rock, close up same rock,
in bldg northwest end of park
- saber tooth cats fighting
stone sculpture by entrance; tiger
audio sound
- tar oozing out of ground, west
end of park, it just seeps upward. Tiny petroleum flies
eat it.
- working dig in a tar pit, west
end of park; steel framework for mapping exact location
of bones found. This is an active pit for several months
year when it is drained and excavated.
link to associated 
L.A. Natural History Museum Photo tour; Outside the Museum Slide Show
Inside the museum: Inside the Museum Slide
Show
- baby mammoth animatronic, it
moves and trumpets; skeleton
on left next to mom on right
- bison (buffalo), almost
extinct due to overhunting; now lives on large preserves
& recovering
- bones positioned in clear plastic
acrylic to show you how they are in ground before dug up
- camel, now extinct in North
America due to Ice Age
- cutaway clump of fossils
showing how they are found in pit
- fossil lab: the director
prepares a cart of fossil bone pieces for volunteers; you
can volunteer
- fossil lab pic 2: a tray small
bone pieces lower left; lights illuminate work area for
very small piece cleaning, identification and preserving
with glyptol
- fossil lab pic 3: various
tools by trays of fossil bones spread out under
magnifying lights
- fossil lab pic 4: two
volunteers with rubber gloves on clean small bone pieces
- fossil racks: stored in trays
in research areas of museum are huge #'s of bones
- gift shop: stop here when done
for t-shirts, mugs, educational books and more
- mammoth skeleton full grown
tusker
- oil wells in early Los Angeles
around La Brea Tar Pits
- prehistoric life around the pits,
mural;
- pronghorn antelope, this cute
little member of the dear family lived here long ago
- sabertooth cat family; skeleton and skull; sabertooth cat attacking a
sloth full color mural
- sloth skelton; a species
survives in South America, feeding on Cecropia trees
- various skulls in display case
- vulture skeleton with painting
of same vulture directly behind it
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- Link to Georgetown zoo page with many animal
sounds
- Link to index of animal sound web sites
- Link to
L.A. Natural History Museum
photo tour
Click
here to link to the George C. Page Museum's web page for info on:
Related Web Sites - natural history places
selling:
skull reproductions, bone casts of extinct
mammals, t-shirts, related products:
- skullduggery: they
make full size reproductions from actual prehistoric
skulls and living species
- bone
room: bone & fossil casts;
these guys sell everything from African porcupine quills
to Entomology collections. If you don't see it in their
on-line catalog ask them, they may sell it.
- and t-shirts of saber tooth cats:
Check out this authentic Ethiopian
restaurant on La Brea Ave on your way home, Cafe
DEMERA
Link to the ETAK on-line map site to lookup HOW TO
GET to Hancock Park and the La Brea Tar Pits:
click
here to goto a map of USA. Type in 5801 Wilshire Blvd, Los
Angeles, CA 90036 to pull up FWY map
About this site: DDC photo
websites on interesting places hosted free for non-profits so you
can preview the places and get more out of them. This site is to
promote visitors to the George C. Page Museum of Natural History
in Hancock Park, active archive of the La Brea Tar Pits bones.
Pre-history of this page
Suggestions or comments please send to comments rth org
Link to index of photo tours other
museums and parks including LA
Natural History Museum, Cabrillo
Marine Aquarium
