You might be surprised by how many fossils are from the La Brea Tar Pits

You might be surprised by how many fossils are from the La Brea Tar Pits

Sticky situation The La Brea Tar Pits are a group of natural asphalt pools in the Miracle Mile neighborhood of Los Angeles. In the middle of the nation’s second-largest city, millions of fossils of animals that were trapped in the pits have been found. On Oct. 6, 1875, professor William Denton of The Boston Society of Natural History published the first scientific description of bones he had found in the La Brea Tar Pits. “La Brea” means “tar pi…