LA’s Top 10, Day 5
By Bill Karz • Sep 26th, 2006 • Category: green.
Day 5: La Brea Tar Pits in Hancock Park
The richest discovery of Ice Age fossils in the world was unearthed in Los Angeles?
Apparently so…more than 100 tons of fossilized bones representing nearly 400 species of mammals, birds, reptiles and fish have been found from pools of sticky asphalt dating back to prehistoric time.
Prince Charles even asked to visit the regularly excavated pits during an LA trip.
So you might be thinking they are located on the outskirts of the city. Actually, they are smack dab in the middle. As part of the Page Museum (a branch of the National History Museum of Los Angeles County), the pits are a stones throw from Miracle Mile and within plain view from the Wilshire Boulevard sidewalk.
Bill Karz is Managing Editor, LosAngelesNomad.com
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