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Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Coverage of Los Angeles County Museum of Art in the Nexus archive.
- ‘Pompeii, but in the middle of a massive city’: the ice age fossil site hidden in Los Angeles
The La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, the world's only urban active ice age fossil site, is undergoing its first major renovation in nearly 50 years. The site contains over 2 million fossils of ice age flora and fauna, including mastodons and saber-toothed cats, preserved in still-active tar pits.