Besides rock, fossils may be found as the result of an organism being entombed in ice, tar (like the famous La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles), or amber, in which ancient insects have been found ...

Take, for instance, the La Brea Tar Pits & Museum, also referred to as the George C. Page Museum. On display, you'll find a plethora of Ice Age-era fossils, including those belonging to mammoths ...

Under certain conditions fossils might not have been created ... dead animals and plants can be preserved in amber, peat bogs, tar pits, or in ice. Amber close amberHardened tree resin.

Archaeologists have uncovered a massive Columbian mammoth skull in Texas, offering new insights into prehistoric life.

An curved arrow pointing right. Excavators at the La Brea Tar Pits work almost every day to pull fossils out of the ground, clean, and prepare them for further research. With 4 million specimens ...

The adjoining museum houses many of the artifacts found at the tar pits; consequently, it is home to one of the largest collections of Ice Age fossils in the world. Recent visitors said the site ...