The Ice Age tar pits of Los Angeles are getting a fresh new design

<p>These bubbling pools of crude oil have existed for millions of years. Now, a new site plan aims to give them the attention they deserve.</p><br /><p>2.6 million years ago, the Ice Age occurred, and saw our planet being mostly covered with frosty glaciers. Wooly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers grazed freely around central Los Angeles, and were preserved at the corner of present day Wilshire Boulevard and Curson Avenue at a site known as the LaBrea Tar Pits. (<em>Brea</em> is the Spanish word for &#x201C;tar.&#x201D;) The area produced these naturally-occurring seeps of bubbling black crude oil for tens of thousands of years, and the mammals that roamed down this now-urban corridor were caught, fatally, by the thick deposits of sticky asphalt, which swallowed them slowly like quicksand. Unable to escape, their bones were preserved, like insects in amber.</p><p>Read Full Story</p><div class="feedflare"><br /> <br /></div>

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