LA BREA TAR PITS WITH A GEOLOGIST | FOSSILS AND GEOLOGY TOUR
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- Exploring La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles with me, a geologist. Come learn about the fossils and the amazing geology that set up these death traps. I will take you through the museum and around the grounds where we will see the tar pits and excavation sites where the mammoths, dire wolves, sloths, camels, horses, lions, and saber tooth cats were found. It is truly an amazing place.
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I visited La Brea Tar Pits with my mom, as a teenager. I was hooked on paleontology! Little did I know a few years later, my dad and I would discover an Ice Age site in our town--The Mammoth Site of Hot Springs, South Dakota! That was 50 years ago, this summer. I'm working on a booklet about the discovery. The Mammoth Site and museum are also now housed in a world-class building. Such things can come from visiting La Brea!
Thank you so much for sharing your story and how awesome. I will look up that site. Hope to make it to South Dakota someday!
Thank you for sharing this! I was obsessed with ice age mammals a kid. What an amazing experience :)
How interesting that you discovered that! That must have been exciting :D I've been to La Brea many years ago. What really stood out is how the scent of the tar seemed so out of place. That's California for you! It's such a strange mixture of old and new.
Thanks for sharing!
In 1974, a construction worker, George Hanson, unearthed unusual bones while the area was being prepared for a new subdivision.[4][9] His son recognized one of the finds as a mammoth tooth.[10]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mammoth_Site
so sweet!
It’s been 11 years since I’ve visited this place. Didn’t know camels and horses evolved here in North America. Thanks for taking us along!
I was surprised to learn that as well. It was an amazing museum. Thanks for watching and the comment.
I knew about horses but not camels, however it was pretty recently acquired knowledge. I’ve been to the pits but your tour has inspired me to return again because there are many things I missed, mainly, the museum. Somehow I never made time, shame on me! By the way, the price of admission is a drop in the bucket of what it takes to run j😮use the museum itself, let alone all the pelentology they do. It’s the least we can do to support such a treasure. Thanks for your video! All the best from Seattle.
Yeah unfortunately native americans wiped them out shortly after they arrived in north america. The same goes for most ice age megafauna.
think all mammals got their start in the Americas, first primordial land and waters.
My mind is blown!
Ex science teacher here from Australia. I remember when we visited LA about 28 years ago and my husband asked me anything you want to see and one thing was Le Brea Tar Pits. My memory is that the display wasn’t as good as it today but I still remember my 12 year old son and I thoroughly enjoyed our visit. Thank you for this trip down memory lane.
You are so welcome. They have done a great job with the museum. Hope you can make it back someday. What science subject did you teach?
@@earthandtime5817 I taught science ( chemistry, physics, biology, geology and astronomy) to what I believe you call middle school and junior high ( students from about13 - 15 ) and biology to senior students ( 16-17 year olds) as well as maths to all levels. My interest in geology was nurtured by a colleague who had been a geologist for several years before retraining as a teacher.
On that trip we also visited the Grand Canyon . A few years ago we went on a trip that took us to Monument Valley, Bryce Canyon and the Grand Canyon. All fascinating geology.
If ever you visit Queensland Australia you will enjoy the Australian Dinosaur Trail.
After watching your video I have decided if we return to LA, instead of treating it as a stopover between connecting flights , I will schedule a few days so I can revisit the Le Brea Tar Pits again! The museum looks terrific.
This is one of the best museum tours I've ever seen. I love the highly informative tour by a person who really knows the material. I wish all tours could be this detailed! Thank you!
Wow. Thank you so much. I am happy you enjoyed it, and I hope you get to visit this amazing place sometime :)
Watchin' this got me all riled up. Headin' there now... Thanks @Earth and Time ;)
@@knottytoob You are welcome...say hello to the pits for me :)
Will do each time, the 'tar' invades my olfactory lobes, out-about for auditions. Ha ha@@earthandtime5817Thanks again for the engaging content, and up-n-away to the channel!
Growing up in Los Angeles, I loved going on school field trips to the Tar Pits. Never lost my fascination for this treasure trove of Ice Age fossils which give us this amazing view into the Los Angeles of the past.
Same here! Loved the field trips here and to Griffith Park. Thanks for sharing.
I’m a volunteer at NHMLA and I was told that in about Oct 2023 they had a flock of geese land in the lake. They were only able to rescue 5/11. Animals are definitely still getting stuck in tar.
Thank you for your efforts
Fossil fuel. The gift that keeps on giving. Lithium, on the other hand...😂
@@mdoy5667well fossil fuel is not made from fossils 🤣!!!!! But you go ahead and pretend you know!
I so miss my dad. He took me here all the time as I grew up.
And, every other museum in SoCsl.
My three daughters benefited from that too-I took them all over too.
Now I’m is going to take my granddaughters there.
One man’s wonder and beautiful mind has spanned three generations.
Thank you so much for sharing this story.
I haven't been to La Brea in so long... as in the 1970s. It was my favorite place to visit as a kid, and it kindled my love of paleontology. I can't believe how much they've built up since then! The museum is huge. Look how many kids it can inspire now! The active pits look much different. My memory might be off, but I remember seeing a square divided into four parts. Three contained tar/earth/muck, but the fourth was dry and they were actively excavating in that part of the cube. It was rather deep, and are is not nearly as big as it is now. I'm all the way in Ohio now, and I wish I could visit La Brea again.
Thank you for sharing. The museum is big and amazing. They have done a great job creating displays and telling the story about the life that was trapped in them. Selfishly, I wish they had a little more on the geology! I hope you can make it out again someday.
I'm 60 years old and always wanted to visit this place. Now, as time is getting shorter, I can cross it off my bucket list, thanks to your thorough video. I subscribed. Thanks!
Thank you for the kind words and I am happy you enjoyed it. Welcome aboard. 😀
The absolute best part of CZcams is the virtual tours of places we might never see in person by regular people. It gives a feeling of almost being there in person.
Which is good because I'd be aching so much after walking all over. It would be worth it though since I could theoretically go there.
Unlike some of the places in the middle of nowhere that requires a lot more physical exertion to go to. Still probably couldn't afford it anyway.
I have been California before though once as a kid.
Personally though I'd have skipped the beach & gone here instead.
Exactly! But 70!😀
This was terrific. I was at La Brea with my mom when I was 5. WW2 had just ended and I had just seen Pinnochio. I had one of the songs going through my head and I always associate it with the TarPits. I saw the mammoth skull with the huge pair of tusks while it was still embedded & frankly, it scared me pretty good. There was no museum yet. But the seeps were interesting. I remember trying to avoid stepping in tar. This makes me want to go and see how much has been done since 1946. Thank you for an excellent tour.
Thank you so much for sharing your story. I really appreciate it. I can imagine seeing a mammoth skull as a kid would be scary. I hope you can make it back out sometime.
Thank you for such a nice tour. I visited LA in 1978 and thought I’d visited everything I wanted to see. However, I didn’t even think of visiting the LaBrea Tar Pits. Now I have old lady aches and pains. Thank you for the visuals and descriptions of the process. And thanks to CZcams for suggesting your channel to me.
Thank you for the kind words, and I am so happy you enjoyed it.
There is a small water hose next to one of the buildings and as usual I had my eyes on it because I saw little thin hollow bones under the muddy soil. I alerted the staff and about 9 months later they made an announcement of that find. I was on a music gig in the area at the time and we had a visit. Wow.
My story is very cool. Not the first time I was able to make good scientific observations.
That is a great story. Thanks for sharing. Did they say what animal the bones belonged to? Happy to have you share your band here as well if you like.
The bones were really thin walled and 95% hollow so I thought they belonged to a bird species. The band was is Rebbesoul. We do contemporary middle eastern music.
my mom used to work there when I was a youngster, it was one of my favorite places =) Thanks for helping see what it looks like these days !
Glad you enjoyed it! It is an amazing place. That is so cool that your mom worked there. What did she do? Thanks for sharing.
I compare the smell to the smell of new asphalt. I love going there. One of my favorite places around LA. And it is also surrounded by other really cool museums. If you’re not from here I highly recommend visiting this area and its museums.
I went to the Academy museum while I was there also. I filmed there a video also (although not my favorite video, I had a lot of camera issues). Thanks for the comment.
Thank you so much for sharing this. I don't like to travel far afield, so I'll never visit La Brea in person. So this is really cool, getting to see your visit. Sidebar, a couple of years ago, I narrowly avoided becoming a fossil. I was hiking in the Niagara Gorge, and a landslide almost swept me off the trail and into the river. If not for a bit of overhang that I was just able to scramble under, I would have been buried at the bottom of the lower Niagara rapids by an entire landslide. It would have taken at least a million or more years for anyone to ever maybe find me. Ever since, whenever I see a fossil, I feel like a kindred spirit. I actually know what it feels like to be on the business end of geology/paleontology. When I see all these victims of the tar pits, I just feel so bad for them. What a rough way to go.
Thank you and thanks so much for sharing your story. And what a story. Glad you were OK. Never been to Niagara falls, but hope to go someday (maybe next summer?)
@@earthandtime5817 I'd recommend making the trip. It really is worth it. To me, Niagara Falls is nothing special. It's just part of the landscape. But every time I go there, there are crowds of foreigners and out of staters and honey mooners, who have traveled across the world to see the Falls. Seeing them experience the Falls, reminds me that "oh yeah, this is one of the wonders of the world." There is a lot more to do on the Canadian side, and the views are better. The City of Niagara Falls on the American side, is a dump. On the American side, Lewiston is awesome, Fort Niagara is amazing, especially if you hit it up during the annual July 4th French and Indian War reenactment. Art Park trails, Devil's Hole trails, and Whirlpool trails are all worth visiting. If you are into architecture, Buffalo has all kinds of treasures, from the Frank Lloyd Wright Darwin Martin House to the old asylum and the remnants of the 1901 Pan-American Exposition. The Albright Knox just completed a renovation so massive that they renamed the gallery. Tifft Nature preserve is this amazing wildlife habitat built on a centuries old landfill. On the Canadian side, Fort Erie the fort, is great, and their battle reenactments are top notch. Niagara on the Lake is awesome, the Glen is awesome, the butterfly conservatory and the aviary are great, and Clifton Hill is a trashy, low rent version of Vegas. The Queenston Heights, however, are the best. Sprinting up the Brock monument is an experience you'll never forget. And there's lots else to do besides. If you can swing it, I'd recommend spending at least a month in the area, and exploring both sides of the border.
@@earthandtime5817 but definitely don't hit up the gorge trails in early spring. The entire trail was iced over. That's why I couldn't run away, because I would have slipped right off the trail. I heard a rumble, and the amount of displaced sediment was so great that I was getting hit with pebbles and bits of dirt from the bottom of the cliff. All of my pockets ended up filled with bits of shale, and I ran out of breath screaming curses, twice. I must have looked like a hieroglyphic, with how desperately I tried to osmosis myself into the cliff wall. Once the coast was clear, I jackassed my way to the whirlpool stairs, which were iced over save for an inch at the end of each step. To get out of there, I had to climb the steps like I was climbing a rock wall. When I finally made it to the top, looking like a traumatized mess, nobody even noticed. They were just walking their dogs, going for a jog. I had just survived this insane ordeal, but nobody cared. It was a very humbling experience.
First visit to La Brea was over a decade ago. Went again in 2019 and was pleasantly surprised at how much they had upgraded the grounds. So much to look at, thank you for diving deeper into the history of this fantastic site! Will try to visit again this fall when we visit LA 😊
Thanks for sharing! And it is so amazing now. I remember taking field trips in elementary school and it has changed so much.
In 1974 the La Brea Pits was in rather wild condition, taking on the flora and fauna natural to L.A. Skunks, possums, redtail hawks, great horned owl and at night sometimes a visiting coyote. In the eighties Park La Brea was turned into a pretty and quite safe place. I don't go back. I first visited the block in 1962 when it was even wilder and you could just hang and talk with the paleontologists digging in the tar. In 1974 I bought the Allman Brother's double live album and I decided to learn how to play slide guitar so I took a purple microdot hit and rode my bicycle to the Pits with guitar in homemade bike bag. I came on to the microdot and played and played and played with that amazing smell wafting about. I taught myself to play slide guitar in about 3 hours. True story. The La Brea Tarpits. In 1962 I drew the bison skeleton and got an "A". Thank you for the re-visit, I want to take you back to the wild time.
Thanks so much for sharing and the story. I would have loved to see the area at that time… and to hear that slide guitar I play banjo and occasionally jam with a slide guitar player.
@@earthandtime5817 - You're welcome. There are paleo sites in L.A. that literally no scientist ever visit. There are the Santa Monica Mountains, pushed up from the ocean floor a long time ago and these hills fairly burst with marine fossils poking right from the rocks (lots of sandstone) - if you ever need a guide please contact me here. I charge a triple espresso. Thanks for featuring the Pits. Keep jamming.
Do you remember the large, round cinderblock building with the circular staircase going around that excavated mass of tar, asphalt and bones? Even back then, in its more primitive development, I loved the Tar Pits! I am so glad to see how the area has developed!
@@sylvisterling8782 - I had forgotten until your reply. Oh yes, I remember the staircase with huge mass of tar and bones in the middle. I personally prefer the wild block, not the family park bullshit. Kids can learn from the natural flora and fauna of L.A. and how all of these living things relate to those of long ago. Our entire class, in 1960, visited the Pits and it was an indescribable experience for me. See Miracle Mile, the film, it is quite good.
It's incredible to imagine what the native Americans thought about these tar pits. I'm certain they had some amazing stories associated with them. I visited there when I was a child but i definitely need to go back. Thanks for sharing your adventures with us!😊
Thanks for the comment. I read that the tar was used by the indigenous people for sealing boats and baskets. My grandma said they used to get the tar and chew it for stomach aches. Crazy!
@earthandtime5817 probably waterproofing clothes and shoes too, and maybe even as a torch/fire starter. Anything you would use oil for.
Fascinating! Thank you so much!
It is truly a fascinating place. I learned so much and enjoyed walking the grounds. Thanks for the comment :)
My wife and I, both geologists, were at an American Association of Petroleum Geologists in Long Beach and stayed an extra day to go to the Tar Pits. Well worth the leave, a must see!
Glad you all enjoyed La Brea. It is an amazing place. Did you get a chance to see the islands in Long Beach? I have wanted to do an episode on them and on Signal Hill (there is a park with the discovery well and a statue dedicated to roughnecks). I appreciate the comment. I hope you enjoy my other geology and paleontology videos as well.
Best La Brea tour I’ve seen on CZcams. 👏👏👏
Wow. Thank you so much. I really appreciate that :)
Thank you so very much for sharing, I am disabled and not able to go. I live in NW Georgia. Thank you for this experience. ❤
You are very welcome. I am so happy you enjoyed it. I love Georgia. I have given talks in Athens and really enjoyed my time exploring the greater northern Georgia region.
If there are some other areas you are interested in seeing, I can put them on my list of places to visit. Happy to do that!
I live locally and made 1 visit to tar pits and I must say I enjoyed it more with you as my tour guide👍
Thank you for the compliment....maybe I need to start giving tours :). I really appreciate you watching.
This was way better presented than I was expecting. Thanks for a great tour and thorough narration!
Wow. Thank you. That means a lot to me. I am so glad you enjoyed it. And thanks for the comment.
One of the best things to see in Los Angeles. Thanks for the video.
I have loved going there since I was a kid! You are welcome :)
Some how I missed your poll. I need to pay more attention to the community tab! I have always wondered about La Brea Tar Pits and now I know that it would be a very interesting place to visit. Thanks!
You should definitely make a stop if you are in LA. It is such an amazing place with so much to learn and see.
When I was a kid in the “60’s, the tar pits was a common place for a field trip.
I’ve been here many times. It truly is a beauty of nature. To me the geological mystery of the tar pits is what makes them so unique and interesting.
Thanks for the comment. It is truly an amazing place and the geology is fascinating.
I visited the La Brea Tar Pits years ago, Wow! The museum has really upped its game since my visit! I’ve gotta get back there. Very, very cool!
Thanks so much for the kind words. They have done a great job with the museum and grounds. Hope you can make it back sometime soon.
I used to work across the street at the Museum Square Building. During lunch I would always visit the place.
I would have loved that. Thank you for watching and for sharing :)
Years ago myX told me about the La Brea Tar Pits as we drove by the park, I thought he was making it up! I have smelled the air when driving through, but have never viewed the pits so I cannot thank you enough for this tour because I probably will not be going back to LA anytime soon. I have always wanted to understand the pits! What a lovely exhibition. LA put a lot of $ into this park. I was surprised by the absence of graffiti and how well cared for the park is. Back in the 70's I think the park was different.
Thank you for sharing your story. I appreciate it. And I am so happy you enjoyed the video.
Good point about how clean the park is. It is a great observation. I was so enthralled by the fossils and geology I missed that detail and you are the first to point it out. Thank you.
I had no idea that we had camels on this continent. Learned something new today. Also, a sloth didn't know that either.
Fascinating right. Horses and camels came from the americas. There is a site in Nevada where there are horse and camel tracks ways from about 10-15 million years ago that I want to take you all to.
This was so interesting and you're a great tour guide. Thank you for this.
You are so welcome! And thanks for the kind words.
Lived in Northern California all of my61 yrs, and have always wanted to visit this site. Thank you for the excellent tour!
You are welcome and I am so happy you enjoyed the tour. I hope to make it to Nor Cal sometime this year or next for some videos. I did get to Lake Tahoe and did an episode there if you are interested. Thanks again.
We went during a week day and in the fossil lab there were people actually working in there, it was super cool, if you go try to go on a week day.
@@Rye_Toast thanks for the additional info. Appreciate it.
I am always amazed at how an archaeologist can look at a small bone and know what animal it came from.
Thank you so much! This was so interesting!
Glad you enjoyed it! And thanks for the comment.
I was born and raised in Southern Calif (LA County) and yet I have never been to the tar pits! Thank you so much for posting this video! I'm watching from Alaska where I live now.
I am so glad you enjoyed the episode and thanks for the comment. I hope to make it to Alaska for some episodes someday.
Last time I visited the tar pits was 2016. I brought my wife there. Incredible experience. Learned so much. Looking forward to coming back.
Thank you for the comment. I hope you enjoy the visit! I look forward to going back!
I still have memories of being there as a kid over 50 yrs ago. Imagine southern california 40,000 yrs ago. Cooler, weter, and wilder. Amazing stuff.
I thought about that a lot while there. It would be cool to see how different so cal was then. Thanks for the great comment.
I grew up in So. CAL. Loved the tar pits.
They are definitely nostalgic for many of us. Thanks for the comment.
Thank your for the tour. My grandfather lived a couple of blocks away and would always take me to explore and visit the tar pits. This was in the 1950s. When you showed the lake early on in your video I could remember the smells. Amazing to see what the city has done in the past 60-70 years.
You are welcome. Happy I could share with you and take you down memory lane. The smell is something I will not forgot. Thanks for the comment.
Well worth a few dollars for an afternoon education/entertainment! Epic display!
It is epic and well worth the time. Thanks for the comment.
Really enjoyed this video. Went on a field trip in 1974 when I was in grade school.
Glad you enjoyed it and thank you for sharing. I remember field trips there as well. The museum has come a long ways since the last time I was there.
On a trip to California my Mom brought me there when I was 13. But it was the last stop of the trip and cut short due to time and rain. Thank you so much for sharing your detailed visit.
You are welcome. Thank you for the comment. I hope you can make it back someday.
I have been going to the La Brea tar pits since I was in elementary school in the 1950s. I have so many great memories, especially the many open seeps and pits without any fencing! I left S CA for AZ over 50 years and passed on my La Brea ago to my husband and family. We finally made it back there about 10 years ago and it was such an enjoyable experience to reconnect and see the much improved museum and grounds. But the tar pits are still my favorite part.
Thanks so much for sharing your story with me. The tar pits are pretty amazing.
Boy! I'm gobsmacked! A wonderful presentation !!! I was standing by you all the way!. and never got any tar on me. Greetings from Australia.
Wow. Thank you so much. I appreciate the kind comment. So happy you enjoyed. And welcome to the channel!
Great video, thank you for sharing.
Thanks for watching! I am glad you enjoyed it.
Hey, just randomly ran across your video. I have to say, you did an excellent job of showing the tar pits. You made it interesting and accessible. Thanks!
Thanks so much for the compliment. It means a lot. I am happy that you enjoyed it and you are welcome.
I grew up in L.A. in the 1950s and early '60s and recall the tar pits, and wondered why there was so little info about the place then. Thank you for this very cool tour of the museum and an introduction to the geology of the park . I seem to recall some years ago there was an explosion that happened at a constuction site nearby where they using a blow torch and a pocket of gas from the tar pits ignited! I never gave any thought to the areas (like the Baldwin Hills, and Torrance) where they were still pumpig oil when I was growing up. I took a great Intro to Geology class at UCLA in the'60s and nearly changed my major, but was told there were no jobs for women geologists, alas!
Thanks for sharing your story. I really love hearing about your experience. Shame about the person telling you there were no jobs. I have friends who have told me similar stories and it both frustrates me and breaks my heart. The plus is it is never to late to start learning! Thanks again!!!
Just discovered your channel. My new favorite tour guide!
California has so much to offer. You could spend a lifetime discovering new experiences in just that one State.
Wow. Thanks for such a nice compliment. That means a lot. There is so much to discover! I look forward to sharing more adventures with you!
Thank you for doing this video, I really enjoyed it. I've been fascinated by the tar puts since I was a little kid.
You mentioned the smell. I can very clearly imagine how it smells since I used to work in a manufactured oil gas plant in NJ back in the early 1980's. One of the byproducts of gas manufacturing is tar, and we would "cook" it down by boiling the water out of it. It would then be shipped out to a paving company.
Thanks again for a very well-done video!
Thank you and thank you for sharing. I appreciate it. The smell is something that sticks with you.
Oh, yes! I used to go in to work with my Mama during the summer when school was out. She worked in what was then known as "the CalFed Building (the tall building you show in the first few minutes of the video.) . That was back in the 1960s. Today, I can recreate the smell in my memory! And yes, I WOULD end up with tar clinging to my shoes! It was WONDERFUL!
I took my first trip to LA over a year ago and La Brea was my first stop. It doesn't disappoint.
Thank you for the comment and for sharing. I want to go back again this user and see what I missed. It definitely die not disappoint and I think there is something new to see each time one goes.
An amazing tour. Felt like I was walking along. Highly informative and fun to watch!
Thanks for the great compliment. I really enjoy sharing what I learn with all of you.
The last time I was there was 1969 high school field trip. Brings back memories
We had field trips there when I was a kid also. Glad I could take you down memory lane.
This was fascinating. Thank you for posting it. To think SO MANY animals came out of that one excavation, there must be 100,000 or more just under that part of LA.
Glad you enjoyed it. There were a lot of animals trapped in there. Thanks for the comment.
Always a great Field Trip back in School Days...loved the Pits!
Same here! I have found memories form elementary school.
Wow! I visited there as a child in the 1950s. I learned so much from your tour! Thank you for bringing us along, and sharing so many details!
You are welcome. I am so happy that you enjoyed the tour.
What an interesting presentation! You provided a wonderful tour of one of the most interesting places in North America. Seeing families enjoying the Park allays some of my L.A. concerns. Thank you!
Thank you so much. I have alwasy loved this place. I remember going on school field trips here and am so happy I can share with you. I hope you can visit sometime :)
It's amazing the whole area is over oil & asphalt seeps. Many buildings in the area have to be well ventilated or sealed from methane leaking up from below.
I had no idea the buildings needed special ventilation. Thank you for sharing. I appreciate it.
Thank you. I went there as Akins in the 60s. I really didn’t get much out of it and the museum want as big then or my parents got board. This was great.
Thank you for the comment. Hope you can make it back and visit the newer museum and grounds.
It's soo crazy to see it and realize how small these are compared to the rest of the state. And to find all the animals that have succumbed to the pits.
Maybe ill be able visit if i have enough time.
I hope you can make it. It is a great museum and truly an amazing site! Thanks for the comment.
I was at the tar pits in 1993 - on our honeymoon (married in Australia)… an amazing place in the middle of suburbia…
I totally agree. It is an amazing place and even though I grew up in the area I always forget that it is in the city. Thanks for sharing.
Visited the museum in the 1980's. At that time there was an exhibit behind glass of the La Brea Woman. The Tar stained skeleton fully assembled rotated. As it turned it was Magically transformed into a fully formed Native American Woman. My wife and I were amazed! Standing next to us we're a preteen Brother & Sister. The girl turns to her young Brother and says "It's only a Hologram"! Thoroughly deflating us Old Folks! It was mentioned at the time to be the only Human remains found. In the pits. As you had not mentioned it, I would assume the exhibit was removed out of respect.
Thanks so much for the story. A few people have asked about if human remains were found. I did not see this exhibit. I imagine they did remove it. I really appreciate you sharing.
Very interesting. Thank you.
This place is amazing! My first time there was when I was in highschool back in 82. ❤
It truly is. A get of a place in the city! Thanks for the comment!
Terrific! Thank you. I need to fly over and visit, its on my bucket list.
Hope you can make it. It is an amazing place.
Thank you for incredible commentary. I learned a lot!
You are welcome. Glad you enjoyed and learned a lot.
I learned so much! Thank you!
You are welcome! 😀 glad you enjoyed and learned a lot.
Thank you so much, this was an extremely interesting and informative walk-through of this very impressive museum that I've always wanted to visit.
You are welcome. I am happy you enjoyed the tour. I hope you can visit someday.
Very informative. When I was eight years old, we went to see the tar pits but I was too young to appreciate it. Thanks for posting.
Thank you for the compliment. I am glad you enjoyed it! Hope you can make it back someday.
Wonderful video, thank you! My Grandma also told me how they would take "road tar" and chew it, back when she was a child.
You are welcome and thanks for the comment. I am amazed by how many folks remember their parents or grandparents chewing on tar. Appreciate you sharing that story.
Fantasy tour! Thanks very much. I loved that place when I was a kid. Couldn’t wait to go again. Really sparked your imagination.
Glad you enjoyed the tour. Every item I go to a museum I feel like a kid. So much to see and learn. Thanks.
Tom Petty song you're thinking of is Free Fallin, which mentions Ventura Blvd. I believe this is what you were thinking of. If I'm mistaken let me know, people! Thanks for the amazing video!! Been so interested in these tar pits, and the fact that a city was built right on and near them. Wild!
Thanks for the song info. I am so bad at remembering lyrics and songs. My family laughs at me all the time. What can I say… I love rocks and fossil! You are welcome for the video. I am so happy that you enjoyed it. I love sharing what I learn and my experiences with you all.
Thanks fro the tour. I haven't been there since I was a kid the mid 70s (?) and it looks lots better than back then😺.
You are welcome. Thank you for the comment. They have done a great job preserving the place.
Very interesting!!! Thank you for a wonderfully informative tour!!
Thank you for the kind words and I am glad you enjoyed the tour.
Thank you so very much I've always wanted to there and your tour was great. Hello from Michigan USA 🇺🇸 😊
You are so welcome! And thank you.
I was a volunteer at the tar pits back around 1969, when new work was just beginning. Since I was only 15 years old, I did the more menial tasks, such as running dirt collected by the college-aged students through various sized wire mesh to find microfossils. At the Museum of Natural History, where I had also worked as a volunteer in the Vertebrate Paleontology department from around 1969 through 1972, there was once a large photograph of a bunch of us on display, at work in the tar pits. My face isn't seen, but I remember the guy taking the photo was off to my right, and my colorful sneakers show up as I'm sitting at my station, sifting the dirt.
Thanks so much for sharing your story. What a fascinating place to get to work. Did you ultimately end up as a paleontologist? I really appreciate the time you spent to share with us.
Thanks! I actually thought about becoming a paleontologist while in high school but ended up as an ER doctor for 38 years, now teaching residents in training but retired from doing patient care.
Outstanding tour! Thanks much!
Glad you enjoyed it! And thanks for the compliment.
You mentioned the soccer balls in one section of the tar pits. They radiocarbon dated some of the soccer balls and one was discovered to be over 13,000 years old. It was so well preserved it actually looked like a modern ball.
I have not heard about that. I imagine a ball would have been made out of straw and would have likely been a bit younger.
Absolutely amazing
It is an amazing place and thank you.
Thank you. You are very interesting to listen too. How many other places are you going to surprise us with on your way home?
Thank you. Stay tuned. I have a few more surprises coming.
This was really interesting, Thank you for the trip!! 👍👍👍👍
Thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed.
I have had a chance to visit the La Brea Tar Pits on many occasions. I have had the opportunity to visit inside the lab here.
For those who do not know La Brea is Spanish for The Tar.
Thank you for the added info. I bet a tour of the labs was amazing.
Visited back in 2019 right before the pandemic. Was one of my favorite stops!
It is a great place to visit and learn. Thanks for sharing.
What an interesting museum worth every penny. Wish I could go in person.
It is so worth it. I hope you can make it someday. Thank you for commenting.
Wow thank you for explaining the tar pits! I didn’t know where they were or anything else ! Thank you so much!
You are so welcome. And thank you. I am happy you enjoyed the video.
Tks!!
Welcome :)
Thanks for the cool and informative tour. For such an iconic location, I’ve never really seen much detail about the location, beyond some of the animals found.
You are welcome and thank you. It is an iconic place.
Thanks for this. I am fascinated, will have to go visit this park.
You are welcome. When you visit please let me know what you thought. And thanks for the comment.
Right next door is the LA art museum too.😊
I am so sad that I did not make it there. I hope to next time I am in LA later this year. Definitely a place I want to see.
Our school used to take our class there. It was a lot cheaper. But yes, jaguars used to be native to Arizona and California until they were hunted to extinction in the early 1900s, maybe earlier. Arizona has recently seen a couple which is really cool. One seems to be a resident while others are transient. They live in Mexico now and a Mexican farmer devoted his land to their preservation.
I did not realize jaguars were in the area until the early 1900’s and that they spotted some in Az. Really cool. Thanks so much for sharing.
Wonderful tour. I doubt I will ever get there so it was nice to go along with you. Your tour was interesting and informative and gave good insight to the La Brea area. Happy to subscribe.
Thanks so much for the kind words and I am so happy you enjoyed it and learned something new. Look forward to you joining me for more videos.
The Nebraska ashbed at Royal. Tens of thousands of fossils buried in 60 feet of ash. Buried by Yellowstone when the hot spot was in southern Idaho. Camels, 3 footed horses, swamp rinos, all kinds of rodents, all buried in the hot ash.
Thanks for sharing. I have that on my list of places I need to visit. I worked a lot of older volcanic events in Utah and Nevada and want to check the site out.
Wonderful tour.Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it and thank you.
Thanks for this. Brings back many memories of field trips to the place in the 80's. But at that age rolling down the grass hills around the museum was probably more interesting than the museum.
Glad you enjoyed it. Ha. I did the same thing. There and at Griffith Park! Thanks for sharing.
Loved your video. I remember when I was in school & we studied about this & I always wanted to see it for myself. I'm not sure now as I am 68 & not in the best of health, but who knows!
I hope you will make it. Thank you for the comment and for sharing.
Very interesting. Most of the information was new to me, wonderful. Thank you.
Thank you for the kind words and I am happy you enjoyed it.
Great tour! Well done, Sir!
I am happy you enjoyed it and thank you for the kind words!
I visited here as a kid in the early 60's, it's much as I remembered it, and back then they were still excavating, sounds like they haven't stopped! Thanks for the refresher. The movie VOLCANO with Tommy Lee Jones features this place, it's a hoot especially if you're from LA.. Thanks!
Thanks for sharing. Ha. I was thinking about the Volcano movie when I was there. I need to go back and watch it.
This was such a great video! I have not been able to visit this museum so what a treat! Ty for the info and vid
Glad you enjoyed it! And thank you for the nice comments. I hope you can visit someday.
Fantastic place...and its right in the middle of Los Angeles!
It is a great place and I am still shocked that it is in the city.