La Brea tar pits. The main lake looks just like in the movies and there are half dozen or so other pits just oozing and stinking. There were methane bubbles comming up through the water puddles on the sidewalk! He page Museum where the fossils are housed is really well done and the whole thing is set in a beautiful park among other museums. We even got to see into the active “dig”. Thin is NOT a place where I would be a volunteer. They actually slog around in the asphalt-like goop and dig our bones and stuff or they sit with a toothbrush and tri-chlor and clean off the tar….icky. It was cool to see it all though.
Did you know, it is saber-tooth cat not tiger? He is not a tiger. They had life size models of giant sloths. You wouldn’t want to meet up with even the little guys of those times 40,000 yrs ago or so. Another big did you know. Did you know that C14 (that they use for carbon dating) comes from irradiated N14? Just doesn’t sit right with my science education. I must have slept through some lecture. I need to look it up. It is worth a stop.