TAR!!! (Trip Proposal)

If ever there is a chance to go to LA, one stop on the agenda should be the La Brea Tar Pits!

Above in the picture is at the Page Museum which features some of the specimens found and is right next door to the tar pits; the picture shows a collection of prehistoric dire wolf skulls.

The tar pits are prehistoric and world famous. It is an astonishing sight because it is literally a graveyard of perfectly preserved fossils and bones, complete skeletons of animals that have lived over the course of millions of years. For paleontologist, this is like finding gold, because finding complete skeleton fossils is EXTREMELY RARE. To biologist, the tar pits is treasure chest of animals from prehistoric times to the present and act as a physical recording of bones that support the theory of evolution. The tar pits have encased hundreds of species including mammoths, saber-tooth tigers, wolves, insects, and birds. Only one human skeleton has ever been discovered, a showcase of just how little time we've walked the planet.

And in case you didn't know, the tar is still there and active!