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LA's tar pits are a death trap. Except for this fly
Across millennia, the tar pits captured over ten thousand mammals, creating a remarkably detailed record of the area’s natural history. But not every creature present in the asphalt is stuck in ...
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How Can These Flies Live in Oily Black Tar Pits?
Across millenia, the tar pits captured over ten thousand mammals, creating a remarkably detailed record of the area’s natural history. But not every creature present in the asphalt is stuck in the ...
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See how scientists uncover 50,000-year-old fossils from California's La Brea Tar Pits where saber-tooth cats and mammoths have been found
the thick liquid in the pits isn't tar. It's asphalt. "It's this crude oil that's just coming up and has been up for the last thousand years," Matt Davis, a paleontologist at the Natural History ...
Carpinteria Bluffs Nature Preserve and Tar Pits
Appropriately named because of the inky sludge that oozes out, these tar pits in Carpinteria are only one of five located in ...