Exploring the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles
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- Опубліковано 8 лип 2024
- The La Brea Tar Pits are located in Hancock Park in the heart of Los Angeles and they feature areas where natural asphalt has come up from the ground over thousands of years. During that time many prehistoric animals were caught in the tar and their bones were preserved. Today they are constantly finding new bones to put on display in the museum, which has many full animals on display. It is a great place to see and plan some time for it if you visit Los Angeles.
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One of the most amazing things about the Tar Pits is the fact that all of the fossils are actual bone. Not fossil bone petrified or calcified into stone. Real bones. So cool
Really? So that's tar keep the bone solid?
even more amazing is that it is all fake
@@zxccxz164did the Bible tell you that?
DNA?
Wondering why they have a sign saying “Fossil Lab” if they’re not really fossils? Just a question not a criticism.
A piece of my heart is stuck in those inky stinky pits. I grew up visiting them in the 50s and 60s, before the mammoth sculptures and museum were in place. There were fewer fences too. Thanks for the memories!
Californians love their fences
orphan 200 Yes, especially on hot summer days! 🤧
I visited the tar pits when I first moved to Los Angeles in the summer of 1971. Took the bus over there from my apartment on 720 South Normandie. There was hardly any development of the area. But the giant statues did stand in the largest of the pools and there was plenty of magic to the place.
Thank you for your comment. I’ve never been able to visit this museum and always wanted to go. For whatever reason even when I want to go on my own my family nobody want to go. Now I’m in adult I watch this video and I want to go. Thank you for your comment❤️❤️❤️
@@MOOMOO2728 Definitely go see it. It’s a great museum!
Its so hard to find good quality walk through's for museums you did an awesome job very educational for my class during quarantine.
So glad the video was helpful for your class!
My great grandfather was best friends and the personal author for G Allan Hancock who inherited the property the tar pits and much of Wilshire Blvd. sit on. He ended up donating the tar pits to the City of Los Angeles so it could be preserved.
My great grandfather wrote several limited print books for Hancock which I have copies of. Some really awesome photos in it of the Los Angeles area when it was nothing but farmland and oil fields.
I remember going to a field trip to the tarpits . I was in second grade ! Good times
Same
Same
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I’m 33 and have the same memory lol
Me to
I remember falling in those pits in LA Noire :(
Me too. In a past life i was one if the Wolves
I love this museum! It was January 17th, 2016 when I first visited La Brea Tar Pits. Can't wait to be back in LA and see this beautiful place again!
So interesting at one point in time those type of animals roamed that area... Los Angeles was totally different back then lol
Great beautiful Mammoths use to roam la now it’s filled with tiktokers and crack heads
Yes. A much nicer time to live in LA. It’s full of even more deadly animals now.
Now it’s roamed by liberals, hypebeasts, and crackheads
ikr its so cool to think about lol
@@xxgag3xx lets not bring political topics here
as a kid this always fascinated me. Finally in 1986 I took a week vacation and did some things around Los Angeles. What a great day. Admission was like 6$ bucks or something. Fantastic deal
It’s awesome that it bubbles up in the streets outside the park!
I lived in LA for a couple of years in the 70's. Drove by the La Brea Tar Pits almost everyday. I always wanted to check it out but never did. Thanks for this video at least I got to see it here.
I remember as a kid my mom used to walk me thru here she cleaned houses not to far from there and we could never afford to go in so she would walk me thru only the outside before we caught the bus 🚎 😢I love you mom thank you ❤ it meant the world to me even if it was just outside 😢
Very well done. You are a great speaker...very clear and easy to listen to. We recently retired and hope to tour California someday.
Wild seeing this two months after I was just there for the first time a couple months back. Such an awesome area of LA!
I'm from NYC and I've never heard of this pace before! interesting...
I’ve never even heard of this museum. Recently moved to LA. I’m always intrigued into learning about the different places I can visit! Love the videos!
Wilshire Blvd is packed with museums and high end department stores all the way from the Tar Pits down to Fairfax. A good place to go for a day or two
It's nice to see something positive coming out of California. The La Brea tar pits are fascinating.
I went here when I was younger on a class field trip definitely was a great experience
A favorite place. Haven't been in decades. Can't get there unless I one day live nearby. Dang low back. Thank you so much. Very appreciated.
I've been obsessed with this place ever since I saw the movie Miracle Mile.
Part of their fossil collection is on display at a history museum in Battle Creek, MI.
Really? I want to see it now as i live near there.
awesome! I’ve been to Battle Creek. I have family near Kalamazoo.
I really enjoy your videos. They are short, sweet and to the point. Thank you.
Thanks so much for this! Unique in all the world. My grandkids love going there, but right now we are all Safer at Home, so I'll play this virtual tour for them.
Thank you so much for your videos! I live in Riverside County and really enjoy traveling in California so your videos are priceless to me! I live so close to Joshua tree and didn’t know half of what is out there, my husband and I are planning a camping trip soon.
So cool, never knew we had tar pits like this right here in Cali
I live in Northern Cali (redwood area in Arcata, loved the avenue of the Giants video btw) but grew up all my life in Los Angeles so I am always amazed to see all the exciting adventures!! Thanks for filming at the Tar pits. You two have inspired me to check it out one day
Arcata! Awesome place!!!
Oh hupa land!
Bigfoot country! I also lived in Arcata, and Shasta, for 12 years.
Grew up in Los Angeles
I've seen the redwood forrest
I grew up going there and i didn’t know how special it was
Going there in March! Just strikes me as one of those kitschy places you have to go! Thanks for the preview.
Where else did you go or looked into going?
I went there in the 70's when i lived there its changed so much since then
If I ever visit LA this is literally the one thing I know I wanna do. As a big paleontology nerd, I've been wanting to experience this formation since I was 7 or 8. Even just seeing this recording makes my heart fill with a sense of wanderlust.
The wild Wolf.
This is worth visiting, I always wanted to see this I am wanting to revisit soon. 😀👍
Love your content.. living your best life.. 👍👍
I was there this past April and I saw the Tar Bubbling. I was standing by the 3 Mammoths, the Bubbles were on the other side where my Brother was, because he wanted to walk around the Big Tar Pit. The Museum seemed to be closed when we got there
It was around 9:00 AM. we were there pretty early. I really enjoyed your video. You did a Great Job! Thank You
wow... thank you!! i really enjoy ur videos
I remember going as a kid… loved it
Thank you for the video. 🙂
I always enjoy your videos. ✌️
Great video you guys 🙂👍 i hope you two enjoyed seeing the tar pits and the museum with fossils 👍 i been with my family since i was a kid and it was a fun experience for me 😊.
I went there many, many years ago & don’t really remember much about it - so this was very cool to watch! I’d love to see how they “dig” in the pits - just can’t imagine...
They probably use those steel nets attached to Machinery that traps all the solid stuff
Thanks for the video. I'm definitely going to check out the La Brea Tar Pits one day based on what I saw on your video!
amazing museum
I got to go there when I was a kid at school. Then after I was married. It amazes me.
Went there as a kid in the early 80s thx mom ❤
Legend has it a cop waded through this area in the 40's and managed to find one of many clues to solving the Black Dahlia murder.
That is my favorite museum!!!! I have been there twice so far. I want to go again this summer!!!! I love dinosaurs as well and sometimes consider that I should have been a paleontologist. But God called me to a greater calling.
Yessssssssssssss Yeeeessssssssss Ooook ooooooooookkk.
I’ve always known about this place, but was reminded of it from a movie called Miracle Mile. Aside from being an amazing movie, it got me pretty hyped up about checking this place out.
Cool video!!❤❤
Amazing
Wow I have never gone to La Brea tar pits and I’ve lived in this area my whole life
An amazing museum that I greatly enjoyed the art was spectacular but there was one working particular spooky
What you pay to explore the museum supports the work there and keeps the outdoor sections free to wander through. Sure, there's public money supporting it too, but it's a worthy cause to contribute to and it's not some privatized profit scam.
Idk why I’ve never gone I’m from Carlsbad, but going soon. Thank you for a great video.
Best low key museum in Los Angeles
La Brea show brought me here
I never been here before, but totally want to!!!
Best field trip I went too
Whose here after watching the” La Brea” trailer.
Is the Pleistocene Garden that atrium you showed or is it something else?
Well done video. Thank you! My son and I were watching a cartoon and he said "I'm glad tar isn't in real life" and I was like "oh but it is and I grew up by some pits." Hahaha!
Every time I hear about about the La Brea Tar Pits it reminds me of the 1997 movie “Volcano” starring Tommy Lee Jones. A Volcano erupts in the main tar pit and lava flows down Wilshire Blvd destroying everything! Of course it wasn’t real but it I give credit to the filmmakers for choosing the tar pits for the volcano eruption. Seems very accurate. I’ve been interested in the tar pits ever since I saw that movie! Great tour!🌋👍
Cool video! I live on the east coast, and not sure if or when I’ll ever make it to the west coast. I’ve always wanted to visit the La Brea Tar Pits, so this video was really great. My four year old enjoyed it too
Plane tickets aren’t too expensive right now. Do yourself a favor, take a trip. Life’s too short. I live on the East Coast as well. I flew to Denver in October when Fauci came clean about C-19 not being as deadly as they first predicted. I spent maybe $1,200 for the 5 day trip and that’s including all the marijuana I bought. Best thing I’ve done for myself in years!
I went here in 2018 I loved it
Ui, that's interesting!
I had no idea L.A. actually had a place like this.
We have this super successfull children's crime story audiobook series in Germany (it's actually the most successful and longest-running audiobook series worldwide with over 200 episodes in the last 40 years) which is based on an American book series from the 70s by author Robert Arthur. The original was called "Alfred Hitchcock's The Three Investigators", but it's called "Die drei Fragezeichen" (The Three Questionmarks) in German.
The stories are about three junior detectives in the fictional town of Rocky Beach, which is set somewhere between L.A. and Malibu.
I've just come back from a 30 days roadtrip through California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona (visiting many places you've recommended on your channel, thank you!), and I always got super excited when I came by a place which I knew from this series. :D
The tar pits and the museum actually play a big part in episode 127, "The Black Madonna", where a statue is revealed to be a long-lost wooden artefact which nobody had recognized as such because the tar had darkened the wood.
I really had no idea this place existed in real life,thanks for showing us!
2:00 The dire wolf skulls look remarkably small for such a size of wolf.
New sub here! Cool video guys!!
I've visited the tar pits awhile ago and before that when I was a child, in school on a field trip. The truth of the matter is neurolaw (formerly the national head injury foundation) put elephants struggling in tar who were stuck permanently akin to a man's rare illness. Who knows if the past actually had had dinosaurs, tyrannosaurus & dilophonsauruses. We're lucky in today's world, where they can't eat you.
Love it, thanks so much for sharing! That many Dire Wolf Skulls!!?? Wow... Amazing!
I didn’t know they were going to be so sad!
I want to go so badly!
I need the link to that piano beat in the beginning of the video
Early memories walking through there in 1991.
I was waiting to see Fred and Wilma 😍😍😍
They were looking for Dino
Trinidad 🇹🇹 has a tar pit as well, it's know as the pitch lake , located in la brea south Trinidad 🇹🇹 .
Is that a weezer reference?
Kudos from 444 Gematria!
How much does it cost?
I have found that the La Brea Tar pit is the perfect place 4 dropping off time capsules. Just make sure they're small enough so you can throw it all the way in when no one's looking. So far I'm up to 12 time capsules who knows if they will ever be found or how far to the Future they will be discovered
What is the cost? Never stated....
I still remember going to the museum in a field trip a long time ago as we saw a video documentary about how these animals get fossilized in tar pits as I think I saw an animal getting attacked by wolves as they all died and turn into skeletons.
If any of Howard Ball family sees this, hi from Ann Archer (granddaughte) , Lei Ann Ball daughter (his first born daughter)
Use to go in Elementary School memories
can I dump my lawn clipping in their. always recycle
:)
Wow life pre covid was so free
I went there as a young girl maybe 11 or 12 years old i dont remember the museum. I do remember the tar and it bubbled im no 78 yesrs old
I've been there in 2004, I don't know how much has changed since then, all I remember was the awful smell of the tar pits
This reminds of the movie volcano with Tommy Lee Jones it came out 1997 .
From Volcano(1997).
momotaro
I have that movie and I wonder how they got the name.
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I did some research and it says that an animal (or person) could get trapped in as small as only 4 cm, and that the La Brea was only a 'few inches deep' but how can a Police Diver then dive down 17 feet. Do they mean the tar pit is not in the Tar Lake, and how deep is that.
I rember to going there in 2 grade
I remember going there as a feild trip but i dont remember what grade i was
What I didn’t even know that this was a think when i went to LA
You could do a highlights of the la brea tar pit museum in 60 seconds
Fred and Wilma lived nearby, so I've heard.
How did the Tar Pits get their name they're so cool looking.
This is the place where volcano 1997 erupts
Looks like there is water in the pits as well.
Wait theres a "fee" you mean you cant just give a suggested donation or a donation? Thats not fair. They should have a "pay what you can" system where the suggested donation is $10 but you pay what you can even if its $2... Every museum should have this model. Its a museum!
So i've always wondered is the tar hot? how close can you get? can you touch it? i assume its escaping from the earth like lava, so its gotta be hot, right?dont feel like googling it. btw big fan of your channel, y'll keep up the good work.
It's not an environmental hazard anymore. Raw "ooh so bad!!!" oil. Right in the middle of one of the most populated areas in USA. Must not be so bad after all, eh?
Cool but have you looked at the Pitch Lake in Trinidad, Caribbean? It is the largest asphalt lake in the WORLD