La Brea Tar Pits

La Brea Tar Pits, The world's most famous Ice Age fossil excavation site is located in the heart of Los Angeles. Explore the park, the bubbling asphalt pits, and the excavation sites. The La Brea Tar Pits/ Rancho La Brea Tar Pits are a cluster of tar pits around which Hancock Park was formed, in the urban heart of Los Angeles, containing one of the richest, best preserved, and best studied assemblages of Pleistocene vertebrates.