Los Angeles - George C Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries

This steel-roofed museum, opened in 1977 shows reconstructed fossils of prehistoric animals found in the giant tar-craters of Rancho La Brea, such as mastodons and mammoths, for which tar proved to be an excellent preserving medium. Throughout the years, hundreds of thousands of bone sections from over 170 different mammals and birds have been dug up, from which a number of complete skeletons have been reconstructed. Some of the great tar-craters can be visited. Films and slide-shows explain the Ice Age fauna to the visitor.