The Brea Tar Pits Museum is located in Los Angles and is one of the unique museums that I have been to. It is built on an actual Ice Age fossil site, where you could see that there is thick, sticky tar that has been bubbling up from underground for thousands of years. The tar trapped the animals over time, which preserves the animals’ bones that the scientists could study them.
The museums has over 3.5 million fossils which are all found in the right on-site. These fossils include the giant mammoths, saber-toothed cats, dire wolves, ground sloths, and even ancient birds and insects. One of the most famous fossil that they have discovered is a saber-toothed cat, Smilodon Fatalis.
During our visit, we saw the incredible fossils which are displayed and watched by the scientists that are working in the Fossil Lab, where they clean and study bones that are still being uncovered today. the museum is part of the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County, and it is bone of the places in the world where active fossil excavation happens in the middle of a big city.
Our trip to the La Brea Tar Pits Museum was fun and educational. I learned how scientist piece together the story of the past and how much we can still discover from fossils. It is a place that connects us to the hasty of Earth and the creature that lived long before us. I learned a lot and left with a new appreciation for science and history.
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