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 ...

The mammoths and saber-toothed cats that shape our imagination of Ice Age Los Angeles browsed ... especially since DNA has yet to be extracted from Tar Pits fossils. Instead, George compared ...

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.

The Miracle Mile Residential Association (MMRA) has been in lock step with the Audubon Society in opposition of the new ...

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 ...