The La Brea Tar Pits and Museum in Los Angeles, CA | Museum Access (Full Episode)

The La Brea Tar Pits located in urban Los Angeles are one of the most unique museums in America. Join host Leslie Mueller as she explores this urban ice-age excavation site and the museum that boasts a collection of millions of fossils found in the tar pits including those of mammoths, mastodons, giant sloths, saber-toothed cats, and many more.
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[@stevenhigby3512]

I always wanted to check out this museum.

[@yikes5790]

I thought congress was in Washington in the swamp. ?

[@wlhgmk]

Just a wee niggle. If we are going to call the period between the previous (Eemian) inter glacial period, some 125,000 years ago and the present (Holocene) inter glacial an ice age then we need a new term for the past 2.75m years in which there have been somewhere between 30 and 50 cycles of glaciation and inter glaciation. The terms matter because we have arguments amongst even some pretty prominent scientists that the demise of the mega fauna of the Americas was due to the end of the 'ice age' In fact, the mega fauna survived, thank you kindly, many many cycles of glacial inter glacial fluctuation. The only difference this time was the introduction of a new species into the Americans (us).

[@AlCatrraz]

For those who do not know... BREA, in Spanish, means TAR !
LA BREA TAR PITS is A REDUNDENT name...
When I meet someone who say I AM FROM LA BREA (city) I respond:: THAT’S THE PITS ….

[@helensarkisian7491]

It’s Spanglish.

[@AlCatrraz]

@@helensarkisian7491
What is?

[@helensarkisian7491]

@@AlCatrraz : The mix of English and Spanish. It’s not the best example. But it is weird that the place is literally the tar tar pits.

[@AlCatrraz]

@@helensarkisian7491
I do know what SOANGLISH IS...
As you said, THIS IS NOT...
That's why I was questioning...
I do speak ENGLISH & SPANISH and a few other languages...
I thank you for your comment, as we both see it is WIERD to have TAR & BREA together... I hate to say, but it the result of IGNORANCE of PSEUDO INTELLECTUALS.. I have many examples... but not now
BEST TO YOU!!

[@helensarkisian7491]

@@AlCatrraz : Sorry, maybe a bad joke on my part. Take a bunch of non-Spanish speaking individuals and have them name a place with a name that is already in Spanish and there’s always the chance the final name is redundant. “El Camino” means “the path”, yes? So El Camino Road is literally The Path Road. It’s more fun if El Camino is “the road”, then it would be the road road.
Sorry. I live in LA county and there are examples of this everywhere.

[@zeekwolfe6251]

This video has too much talk and not enough show of the skeletons and reconstructed bodies of now extinct animals. The entire area of the La Brea Tar Pits is surrounded by other museums...LACMA, LA County Museum of Art, the Academy of Motion Pictures museum in the old May Company building, and the Peterson Auto Museum across Wilshire Blvd. Oh, and if hungry, stop at Pinks Hot Dog stand just up the street a ways. Hmm, not bad for a person that lives in small-town Kentucky.

[@MASTER3RDEYE]

Too much talking and not enough showing.