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    La Brea Tar Pits is an active paleontological research site in urban Los Angeles. Hancock Park was formed around a group of tar pits where natural asphalt...
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    prehistoric and extinct species whose fossils have been found in the La Brea Tar Pits, located in present-day Hancock Park, a city park on the Miracle Mile...
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    Tar pits, sometimes referred to as asphalt pits, are large asphalt deposits. They form in the presence of petroleum, which is created when decayed organic...
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    La Brea Woman was a human whose remains were found in the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California. The remains, first discovered in the pits in 1914...
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    Park La Brea (Spanish: La Brea—"The tar", after the nearby La Brea Tar Pits) is an apartment community in the Miracle Mile District of Los Angeles, California...
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  • La Brea (Spanish for "the tar" or "the tar pits") may refer to: La Brea Avenue La Brea Bakery La Brea Tar Pits Park La Brea, Los Angeles, a large apartment...
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  • insects recovered from the pits are on display at the Baku Natural-Historical Museum. La Brea Tar Pits – group of tar pits around which Hancock Park was...
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    Carpinteria Tar Pits are a natural asphalt lake areas similar to Tierra de Brea Trinidad and Tobago, Lake Guanoco in Venezuela and the La Brea Tar Pits (Los...
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    Hollywood, and parts of West Hollywood. The grant included the famous La Brea Tar Pits. The title awarded by the alcalde in 1828 was confirmed by José María...
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    evolved from Megantereon. The hundreds of specimens obtained from the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles constitute the largest collection of Smilodon fossils...
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    largest collection of its fossils has been obtained from the Rancho La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. Dire wolf remains have been found across a broad range...
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    named taxa with Felis atrox. At least 80 individuals are known from La Brea Tar Pits and the fossils define the subspecies, giving a comprehensive view...
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  • philanthropist best known as the namesake of the Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California. Page was born in Fremont, Nebraska. He...
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    are from the Californian La Brea Tar Pits. All remains except one Early Pleistocene partial skeleton from the Leisey Shell Pit near Charlotte Harbor, Florida...
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    Smilodon skeletons in the La Brea tar pits in California supports the hypothesis, as well. The animals caught in the pits would have been dying or dead...
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  • massive sinkhole opens in the middle of Los Angeles at the site of the La Brea Tar Pits and Wilshire Boulevard, pulling many people, vehicles and buildings...
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    La Brea Tar Pits; the adjacent George C. Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries, which displays the fossils of Ice Age prehistoric mammals from the tar pits;...
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    from the La Brea Tar Pits suggest A. simus preferred a herbivorous diet. A. simus is particularly famous from fossils found in the La Brea Tar Pits, with...
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    Los Angeles Basin (redirect from LA Basin)
    formation of these folds occurred mostly during the Pliocene. The La Brea Tar Pits are pools of stagnant asphaltum that have been found on the basin's...
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    referred to as Bison "occidentalis". "Animals of the La Brea Tar Pits Timeline". La Brea Tar Pits & Museum. Archived from the original on 11 January 2018...
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    Angeles Zoo, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, the La Brea Tar Pits, the Arboretum of Los Angeles, and two horse racetracks and two car...
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    Ciconia maltha (redirect from La Brea Stork)
    Oregon, Idaho and Florida), Cuba and Bolivia. It has been found in the La Brea Tar Pits. It is a relatively large species of Ciconia, with a height of over...
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  • streets of Los Angeles following the formation of a volcano at the La Brea Tar Pits. The story was inspired by the 1943 formation of the Parícutin volcano...
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    The McKittrick Tar Pits (also McKittrick Oil Seeps and McKittrick Brea Pits) are a series of natural asphalt lakes situated in the western part of Kern...
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    best-known species. Over a hundred specimens have been found, mostly from La Brea Tar Pits. It stood about 75 centimetres (30 in) tall with an estimated wingspan...
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    Acclaimed as "America's Champs-Élysées," this stretch of Wilshire near the La Brea Tar Pits was named "Miracle Mile" for its improbable rise to prominence. Although...
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    Oraristrix (redirect from La Brea owl)
    Oraristix brea, the La Brea owl, is an extinct owl reported from the Upper Pleistocene asphalt deposits of the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California...
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    various forms of bitumen are sometimes referred to as "tar", as in the name of the La Brea Tar Pits. Naturally occurring bitumen is sometimes specified by...
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    the asphalt found in naturally occurring tar pits (e.g., the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles). "Rangoon tar", also known as "Burmese oil" or "Burmese...
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    Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits (George C. Page Museum). LACMA was founded in 1961, splitting from...
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