What are La tar pits?

La Brea Tar Pits are LagerStätte (German: place of storage, place of rest) or an extremely rich fossil bed that is now in what is now in the center of Los Angeles in California. La Brea means "tar" in Spanish, so "tar pits" in the name are really somewhat redundant.

Many thousands of fossils have been extracted from La La La, all of them come from the Pleistocene and Holocene epochs. Animals and plants began to imprison in boxes about 38,000 years ago and received a permanent supply of new victims until they were in a tourist destination less than a century ago.

The tar comes from an underground oil deposit that escaped to the surface. The surface is covered with leaves and dust, causing the animals to occasionally embark on it without knowing, sometimes it is trapped. Predators probably gathered around the pit in antiquity, looking for free food and get stuck. Although the unpleasant fnebo victims, this method of fossilization is one of the best, retaining MikRosopic pollen grains and animals as large as mammoths.

Fossils found in Lahrech La Brea include numerous extinct Pleistocene megafauna-old bison, cats with sabers, terrible wolves, mastodons, mammys, short-faced bears, land sloples, even North American Camel and Llam. Existing organisms are also found in large numbers, including pumans, bobcats, coyotes, gray wolves, raccoon, skunks, tapirs, lasic and numerous insects and plants. A partial human skeleton, an Indian woman who lived about 9,000 years ago, was even found.

La Brea Tar Pits remains one of the most famous monuments in Los Angeles. They are accompanied by a measure of mammoth models and the associated museum contains models of sloths, saber cats and other animals, as well as numerous fossils.