BE ADVISED: On Saturday, February 21, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum will host the LAFC vs. Inter Miami soccer match. Kickoff is at 6:30 pm. This event will impact traffic, parking, and wayfinding in the area due to street closures. Paid parking for Prehistoric Fight Nights will be offered in the NHM Car Park at Exposition Blvd and Bill Robertson Ln. Please consider riding the Metro E (Expo) Line and exiting at USC/Expo station.

BE ADVISED: The Natural History Museum is not participating in SoCal Museums Free-for-All on Sunday, February 22.

Raccoons of Early Los Angeles

A rare fossil raccoon at Project 23

A Modern-Day Mammal in Prehistoric Los Angeles

Try to picture the Pleistocene world, and megafauna like saber-toothed cats, mammoths or giant ground sloths might come to mind, but mammals we see every day (or every night) lived among those extinct giants. Join fossil preparators from La Brea Tar Pits for a journey from discovery to reconstruction of a rare find from Project 23: a fossilized raccoon. They'll take you through the process of preparing this special find and some of the reasons raccoons are so rare at the Tar Pits.