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Sample Tar Pits' Paleo Diets

Gnawing questions answered with fossilized teeth

L.A.'s Ancient Camel

But did it spit?

Sabertooth cat skeleton and notecard with field notes

Get Sedimental With La Brea Tar Pits

Help transcribe 'dig' field notes for fossils excavated since 1969

Clever Mary: The Song of Mary Anning, A Hero of Paleontology

Sing along with NHM's Performing Arts team in celebration of Mary Anning, an overlooked matriarch of paleontology

Year of the Ox

Celebrate the 2021 Lunar New Year with 21 highlights from the collection

Dire Wolf Skull Wall Reinstall

3,600 individual dire wolves recovered, 400 skulls, one iconic La Brea Tar Pits installation refurbished

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Scientists hiking a mountainous trail to a cave in the distance.

Gypsum Cave

The holotype skeleton of the extinct aquatic herbivore Neoparadoxia cecilialina from the Monterey Formation of Orange County.

Vertebrate Paleontology

Vertebrate Paleontology is the study of ancient animals that have a vertebral column including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.

Project Paleo

Do you want to be a paleontologist? Do you want to be a curator of natural history collections? Project Paleo is your opportunity to work with fossils and contribute to the curation of Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County's collections.

Fossils and Evolution

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Sample Tar Pits' Paleo Diets

L.A.'s Ancient Camel

Get Sedimental With La Brea Tar Pits

Clever Mary: The Song of Mary Anning, A Hero of Paleontology

Year of the Ox

Dire Wolf Skull Wall Reinstall

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