Playing With Fire: Extinction Scene 1
Playing With Fire: Extinction and Survival at La Brea Tar Pits
In California, 13,000 years ago, huge Ice Age mammals that had roamed the landscape for many millennia, suddenly ceased to exist. The cause? Humans, catastrophic fires, and an ecosystem made vulnerable by climate change.
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Digital mastadon at the Tar Pits
Geek Out in an Ice Age Daydream
Tar AR brings Ice Age animals back to L.A.
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Year of the Rabbit
Celebrate the 2023 Lunar New Year with highlights from the collection
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AIN Campers in Nature Lab Summer 2022
Wonderstruck
Little campers—and their parents—look back at the summer that they were blown away by science
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Tar Pits MGM Parody
Saber-toothed Cat 101
La Brea Tar Pits presents everything you need to know about saber-toothed cats.
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quetzalcoatlus head shot
A Ptango With Pterosaurs
How do the biggest wings the Earth has ever seen stack up to the flying reptiles of fantasy–dragons?
 
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donkey by inaturalist user garmonb0zia
Burro-Ing Into the Past
How introduced donkeys and the indigenous pumas that love (to hunt) them are helping to resurrect extinct food webs in Death Valley
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Ailurarctos reconstruction Mauricio Anton
Research and Collections
Eating bamboo? It's all in the wrist.
An ancient fossil reveals the earliest panda on an exclusively bamboo diet and the evolutionary history of panda's false thumbs
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Red Rock Canyon State Park landscape
Research That Rocks
Our breathtaking backyard state park
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Before Dinosaurs Got Big
Meet Earth’s first giant—a humongous new species of ichthyosaur—only at NHM!
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