Exploring the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles

[@Nunya_Bidnez]

One of the most amazing things about the Tar Pits is the fact that all of the fossils are actual bone. Not fossil bone petrified or calcified into stone. Real bones. So cool

[@MrRydoone]

Really? So that's tar keep the bone solid?

[@zxccxz164]

even more amazing is that it is all fake

[@Tygor9000]

@@zxccxz164did the Bible tell you that?

[@jimjoyce4423]

DNA?

[@jsa-z1722]

Wondering why they have a sign saying “Fossil Lab” if they’re not really fossils? Just a question not a criticism.

[@jeanettewaverly2590]

A piece of my heart is stuck in those inky stinky pits. I grew up visiting them in the 50s and 60s, before the mammoth sculptures and museum were in place. There were fewer fences too. Thanks for the memories!

[@ChadDidNothingWrong]

Californians love their fences

[@jeanettewaverly2590]

orphan 200 Yes, especially on hot summer days! 🤧

[@templeman4]

I visited the tar pits when I first moved to Los Angeles in the summer of 1971. Took the bus over there from my apartment on 720 South Normandie. There was hardly any development of the area. But the giant statues did stand in the largest of the pools and there was plenty of magic to the place.

[@MOOMOO2728]

Thank you for your comment. I’ve never been able to visit this museum and always wanted to go. For whatever reason even when I want to go on my own my family nobody want to go. Now I’m in adult I watch this video and I want to go. Thank you for your comment❤️❤️❤️

[@jeanettewaverly2590]

@@MOOMOO2728 Definitely go see it. It’s a great museum!

[@MostDopeLarry]

I remember going to a field trip to the tarpits . I was in second grade ! Good times

[@Lowrider1964]

Same

[@ihavearamdumnamelol5684]

Same

[@computerface4095]

Same

[@Freakybob5]

Me to

[@brienfoaboutanything9037]

Thats amazing information about La Brea Tar Pits: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kHW8cpeLqq-JnrM

[@gracerich4743]

Its so hard to find good quality walk through's for museums you did an awesome job very educational for my class during quarantine.

[@californiathroughmylens]

So glad the video was helpful for your class!

[@Pollux95630]

My great grandfather was best friends and the personal author for G Allan Hancock who inherited the property the tar pits and much of Wilshire Blvd. sit on. He ended up donating the tar pits to the City of Los Angeles so it could be preserved. My great grandfather wrote several limited print books for Hancock which I have copies of. Some really awesome photos in it of the Los Angeles area when it was nothing but farmland and oil fields.

[@Multifacted_Brotha]

So interesting at one point in time those type of animals roamed that area... Los Angeles was totally different back then lol

[@viceflores691]

Great beautiful Mammoths use to roam la now it’s filled with tiktokers and crack heads

[@PaulHipToBeSquareAllen]

Yes. A much nicer time to live in LA. It’s full of even more deadly animals now.

[@xxgag3xx]

Now it’s roamed by liberals, hypebeasts, and crackheads

[@anjali4440]

ikr its so cool to think about lol

[@anjali4440]

@@xxgag3xx lets not bring political topics here

[@AlexJCornell]

I love this museum! It was January 17th, 2016 when I first visited La Brea Tar Pits. Can't wait to be back in LA and see this beautiful place again!

[@cochinaable]

I lived in LA for a couple of years in the 70's. Drove by the La Brea Tar Pits almost everyday. I always wanted to check it out but never did. Thanks for this video at least I got to see it here.

[@gkprivate433]

as a kid this always fascinated me. Finally in 1986 I took a week vacation and did some things around Los Angeles. What a great day. Admission was like 6$ bucks or something. Fantastic deal

[@carlosvalverde2928]

I remember falling in those pits in LA Noire :(

[@bretson2850]

Me too. In a past life i was one if the Wolves

[@th3wallac3s]

It’s awesome that it bubbles up in the streets outside the park!

[@skullheadwater9839]

Yea when I went there in 2004 it would be randomly bubbling up in the grassy areas as you walked around.

[@JJs-ClassC-Adventures]

Very well done. You are a great speaker...very clear and easy to listen to. We recently retired and hope to tour California someday.

[@n00n1n]

It's nice to see something positive coming out of California. The La Brea tar pits are fascinating.

[@2011woodlands]

Part of their fossil collection is on display at a history museum in Battle Creek, MI.

[@Nunya_Bidnez]

Really? I want to see it now as i live near there.

[@michaelrmcornejo]

awesome! I’ve been to Battle Creek. I have family near Kalamazoo.

[@JRoundAbout]

Rob van damn?

[@JesusSanchez-qv8dh]

I went here when I was younger on a class field trip definitely was a great experience

[@BottleRocket11]

Wild seeing this two months after I was just there for the first time a couple months back. Such an awesome area of LA!

[@frankheimerle]

I'm from NYC and I've never heard of this pace before! interesting...

[@justjay4412]

A favorite place. Haven't been in decades. Can't get there unless I one day live nearby. Dang low back. Thank you so much. Very appreciated.

[@xMandRx]

I’ve never even heard of this museum. Recently moved to LA. I’m always intrigued into learning about the different places I can visit! Love the videos!

[@S117M4sterChief]

Wilshire Blvd is packed with museums and high end department stores all the way from the Tar Pits down to Fairfax. A good place to go for a day or two

[@pappanalab]

If I ever visit LA this is literally the one thing I know I wanna do. As a big paleontology nerd, I've been wanting to experience this formation since I was 7 or 8. Even just seeing this recording makes my heart fill with a sense of wanderlust.

[@joanaalmeida3401]

The wild Wolf.

[@ehmmmjay9907]

I've been obsessed with this place ever since I saw the movie Miracle Mile.

[@johnbehneman1546]

That is my favorite museum!!!! I have been there twice so far. I want to go again this summer!!!! I love dinosaurs as well and sometimes consider that I should have been a paleontologist. But God called me to a greater calling.

[@joanaalmeida3401]

Yessssssssssssss Yeeeessssssssss Ooook ooooooooookkk.

[@pattyhiggins5524]

I grew up going there and i didn’t know how special it was

[@wschmidt22]

So cool, never knew we had tar pits like this right here in Cali

[@trudyroberts5273]

I went there in the 70's when i lived there its changed so much since then

[@turnbullstravels735]

Going there in March! Just strikes me as one of those kitschy places you have to go! Thanks for the preview.

[@cvaldes114]

Where else did you go or looked into going?

[@ctruthtoday]

I really enjoy your videos. They are short, sweet and to the point. Thank you.

[@LauraMonteros]

Thanks so much for this! Unique in all the world. My grandkids love going there, but right now we are all Safer at Home, so I'll play this virtual tour for them.

[@Lulu.G-61]

Thank you so much for your videos! I live in Riverside County and really enjoy traveling in California so your videos are priceless to me! I live so close to Joshua tree and didn’t know half of what is out there, my husband and I are planning a camping trip soon.

[@glennhalila8279]

I was there this past April and I saw the Tar Bubbling. I was standing by the 3 Mammoths, the Bubbles were on the other side where my Brother was, because he wanted to walk around the Big Tar Pit. The Museum seemed to be closed when we got there It was around 9:00 AM. we were there pretty early. I really enjoyed your video. You did a Great Job! Thank You

[@jesss.7788]

I live in Northern Cali (redwood area in Arcata, loved the avenue of the Giants video btw) but grew up all my life in Los Angeles so I am always amazed to see all the exciting adventures!! Thanks for filming at the Tar pits. You two have inspired me to check it out one day

[@shotcall1]

Arcata! Awesome place!!!

[@haroldcroy922]

Oh hupa land!

[@thomasstillman4805]

Bigfoot country! I also lived in Arcata, and Shasta, for 12 years. Grew up in Los Angeles

[@erickellogg8532]

I've seen the redwood forrest

[@RiiGHTEOUSxED89]

I remember as a kid my mom used to walk me thru here she cleaned houses not to far from there and we could never afford to go in so she would walk me thru only the outside before we caught the bus 🚎 😢I love you mom thank you ❤ it meant the world to me even if it was just outside 😢

[@MarkPlotkin-df8cn]

Went there as a kid in the early 80s thx mom ❤

[@aeipee13]

Best low key museum in Los Angeles

[@mickeymartin3813]

This is worth visiting, I always wanted to see this I am wanting to revisit soon. 😀👍

[@RissaFirecat]

I got to go there when I was a kid at school. Then after I was married. It amazes me.

[@KittyCatDonut]

I remember going as a kid… loved it

[@oliversch7271]

Wow I have never gone to La Brea tar pits and I’ve lived in this area my whole life

[@TheBatMav]

Legend has it a cop waded through this area in the 40's and managed to find one of many clues to solving the Black Dahlia murder.

[@miahmarieeeeee]

Love your content.. living your best life.. 👍👍

[@MrHifihifi]

Thanks for the video. I'm definitely going to check out the La Brea Tar Pits one day based on what I saw on your video!

[@Rytoon18]

Every time I hear about about the La Brea Tar Pits it reminds me of the 1997 movie “Volcano” starring Tommy Lee Jones. A Volcano erupts in the main tar pit and lava flows down Wilshire Blvd destroying everything! Of course it wasn’t real but it I give credit to the filmmakers for choosing the tar pits for the volcano eruption. Seems very accurate. I’ve been interested in the tar pits ever since I saw that movie! Great tour!🌋👍

[@mestrefantasma]

Thanks guys, but is this museum better than the Petersen in Los Angeles?

[@madkittyjoey70]

I never been here before, but totally want to!!!

[@SoCalRonnie]

Idk why I’ve never gone I’m from Carlsbad, but going soon. Thank you for a great video.

[@raymondscottbehnoud8986]

An amazing museum that I greatly enjoyed the art was spectacular but there was one working particular spooky

[@ciachef14]

I was waiting to see Fred and Wilma 😍😍😍

[@michaelputignano8367]

They were looking for Dino

[@SerialDesignationaN]

Best field trip I went too

[@jamespaquin5639]

Thank you for the video. 🙂

[@RF-iv9vw]

Damn that hip hop beat at the beginning was awesome

[@leounknown7316]

La Brea show brought me here

[@TravelSmallLiveBig]

I went there many, many years ago & don’t really remember much about it - so this was very cool to watch! I’d love to see how they “dig” in the pits - just can’t imagine...

[@nick56677]

They probably use those steel nets attached to Machinery that traps all the solid stuff

[@justaguy6100]

What you pay to explore the museum supports the work there and keeps the outdoor sections free to wander through. Sure, there's public money supporting it too, but it's a worthy cause to contribute to and it's not some privatized profit scam.

[@saliv88]

I’ve always known about this place, but was reminded of it from a movie called Miracle Mile. Aside from being an amazing movie, it got me pretty hyped up about checking this place out.

[@momscandaytrade]

Whose here after watching the” La Brea” trailer.

[@dlogan7808]

When I was real young had a field trip there lol. Probably early 90s

[@jcdmobil352]

Ui, that's interesting! I had no idea L.A. actually had a place like this. We have this super successfull children's crime story audiobook series in Germany (it's actually the most successful and longest-running audiobook series worldwide with over 200 episodes in the last 40 years) which is based on an American book series from the 70s by author Robert Arthur. The original was called "Alfred Hitchcock's The Three Investigators", but it's called "Die drei Fragezeichen" (The Three Questionmarks) in German. The stories are about three junior detectives in the fictional town of Rocky Beach, which is set somewhere between L.A. and Malibu. I've just come back from a 30 days roadtrip through California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona (visiting many places you've recommended on your channel, thank you!), and I always got super excited when I came by a place which I knew from this series. :D The tar pits and the museum actually play a big part in episode 127, "The Black Madonna", where a statue is revealed to be a long-lost wooden artefact which nobody had recognized as such because the tar had darkened the wood. I really had no idea this place existed in real life,thanks for showing us!

[@jaysonguzman4347]

Great video you guys 🙂👍 i hope you two enjoyed seeing the tar pits and the museum with fossils 👍 i been with my family since i was a kid and it was a fun experience for me 😊.

[@idania.caceres]

amazing museum

[@dikranlutufyan1001]

Is the Pleistocene Garden that atrium you showed or is it something else?

[@moniquehaynes232]

Trinidad 🇹🇹 has a tar pit as well, it's know as the pitch lake , located in la brea south Trinidad 🇹🇹 .

[@DOPE-xu8we]

Is that a weezer reference?

[@jeronimomod156]

I have found that the La Brea Tar pit is the perfect place 4 dropping off time capsules. Just make sure they're small enough so you can throw it all the way in when no one's looking. So far I'm up to 12 time capsules who knows if they will ever be found or how far to the Future they will be discovered

[@sarw9294]

Cool video! I live on the east coast, and not sure if or when I’ll ever make it to the west coast. I’ve always wanted to visit the La Brea Tar Pits, so this video was really great. My four year old enjoyed it too

[@FCKfear]

Plane tickets aren’t too expensive right now. Do yourself a favor, take a trip. Life’s too short. I live on the East Coast as well. I flew to Denver in October when Fauci came clean about C-19 not being as deadly as they first predicted. I spent maybe $1,200 for the 5 day trip and that’s including all the marijuana I bought. Best thing I’ve done for myself in years!

[@katelynthewhitewerewolf6376]

How did the Tar Pits get their name they're so cool looking.

[@jasondoherty3060]

I went here in 2018 I loved it

[@mcaste8495]

You could do a highlights of the la brea tar pit museum in 60 seconds

[@violetlunna]

Amazing

[@richardrampath]

Cool but have you looked at the Pitch Lake in Trinidad, Caribbean? It is the largest asphalt lake in the WORLD

[@Desiree-B003]

Cool video!!❤❤

[@Paul-np9dx]

I remember being a kid and going to Breannas Arm Pits for a field trip. Then we had to write a "Paragraph" about what we learned. It was like making an email sandwhich

[@firstman9273]

2:00 The dire wolf skulls look remarkably small for such a size of wolf.

[@kalitozkaliente1215]

wow... thank you!! i really enjoy ur videos

[@RyansChannel0203]

Who's your friend in the video?

[@derekolivas6943]

I need the link to that piano beat in the beginning of the video

[@DaleKamp]

Early memories walking through there in 1991.

[@casitacathi]

I always enjoy your videos. ✌️

[@whitealliance9540]

Wait theres a "fee" you mean you cant just give a suggested donation or a donation? Thats not fair. They should have a "pay what you can" system where the suggested donation is $10 but you pay what you can even if its $2... Every museum should have this model. Its a museum!

[@tallieallen397]

Looks like there is water in the pits as well.

[@momotaro8078]

From Volcano(1997).

[@katelynthewhitewerewolf6376]

momotaro I have that movie and I wonder how they got the name.

[@BoleDaPole]

Wow life pre covid was so free

[@ianuspater4825]

I did some research and it says that an animal (or person) could get trapped in as small as only 4 cm, and that the La Brea was only a 'few inches deep' but how can a Police Diver then dive down 17 feet. Do they mean the tar pit is not in the Tar Lake, and how deep is that.

[@lalalivy2854]

I want to go so badly!

[@Lelandphotography]

So i've always wondered is the tar hot? how close can you get? can you touch it? i assume its escaping from the earth like lava, so its gotta be hot, right?dont feel like googling it. btw big fan of your channel, y'll keep up the good work.

[@jerroldkazynski5480]

It's not an environmental hazard anymore. Raw "ooh so bad!!!" oil. Right in the middle of one of the most populated areas in USA. Must not be so bad after all, eh?

[@krytikalofficial5094]

Use to go in Elementary School memories

[@jaypuck6912]

Well done video. Thank you! My son and I were watching a cartoon and he said "I'm glad tar isn't in real life" and I was like "oh but it is and I grew up by some pits." Hahaha!

[@blueeyeddrago3540]

I still remember going to the museum in a field trip a long time ago as we saw a video documentary about how these animals get fossilized in tar pits as I think I saw an animal getting attacked by wolves as they all died and turn into skeletons.

[@candyc.3163]

I didn’t know they were going to be so sad!

[@litcostello1223]

Weezer anyone

[@RicardoLopez-rq4vg]

I was so surprised it´s a real place!

[@kingjeremysircornwell7847]

can I dump my lawn clipping in their. always recycle

[@bretson2850]

:)

[@obamaslastname201]

I remember going there as a feild trip but i dont remember what grade i was

[@greedygringoprospecting6941]

that place smells you didn't show any of the no smoking signs because of the gas coming out of the ground they still have those yes ? never been inside just seen the one in front pretty cool boss !!!!

[@lisalasoya2898]

I've visited the tar pits awhile ago and before that when I was a child, in school on a field trip. The truth of the matter is neurolaw (formerly the national head injury foundation) put elephants struggling in tar who were stuck permanently akin to a man's rare illness. Who knows if the past actually had had dinosaurs, tyrannosaurus & dilophonsauruses. We're lucky in today's world, where they can't eat you.

[@demayoexperience]

How much does it cost?

[@Paul-np9dx]

Is that a greenhouse where the snicklefritz trees grow

[@Yitsul]

I've been there in 2004, I don't know how much has changed since then, all I remember was the awful smell of the tar pits

[@jccross6132]

What is the cost? Never stated....

[@jamiecain8120]

This reminds of the movie volcano with Tommy Lee Jones it came out 1997 .

[@xman1532]

What if a squirt fell in that one active tar pit

[@johnhouston6133]

My favorite TWO ANIMALS ON EXHIBIT THERE IS the AMERICAN LION PANTHERA LEO ATROX I LIKE HOW THEY COMPARES SIDE BY SIDE COMPARISONS OF THE TWO BIG CATS SABER-TOOTH SMILODON FATALIS AND THE AMERICAN LION I LOVE TO SEE THE LOOK ON PEOPLE'S FACE WHEN THEY SEE HOW HUGE THE AMERICAN LION IS COMPARED TO THE SABER-TOOTH CAT WHEN I LOOK AT THAT LION RIGHT IN THE FACE I GET CHILLS DOWN MY SPINE BUT I LOVE ALL ANIMALS NO MATTER WHAT IT'S ALL GOOD NICE VIDEO