La Brea Tar Pits and Museum

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“A bas-relief around four sides depicts life in the Pleistocene era, and the museum has more than 3 million Ice Age fossils.”

– Fodor's

Lonely Planet Lonely Planet
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"You’ll likely have a ball at the unique Page Museum, an archaeological trove of skulls and bones unearthed at La Brea Tar Pits, one of the world’s most fecund and famous fossil sites." Full review
Lonely Planet Lonely Planet
"Between 10,000 and 40,000 years ago, tarlike bubbling crude oil trapped saber-toothed cats, mammoths and other extinct ice-age critters." Full review
Time Out Time Out
"Back in 1875, a group of amateur paleontologists discovered animal remains in the pits at Rancho La Brea, which bubbled with asphalt from a petroleum lake under what is now Hancock Park." Full review
Michelin Guide Michelin Guide
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"Hancock Park, the public park embracing the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Page Museum, is the setting for the world's largest and most diverse cache of Ice Age plant and animal..." Full review
Michelin Guide Michelin Guide
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"Visitors to this museum on the site of the famous Rancho La Brea Tar Pits can learn about Los Angeles as it was between 10,000 and 40,000 years ago." Full review
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