American lions and saber-toothed cats and short-faced bears, oh my! A trip back to the Ice Age is available at the Page Museum and the La Brea Tar Pits. Shown here is a mastodon family, with the mother trapped in the world-famous tar. The Page Museum is in the background.
Remember the saber-toothed kitty from the Flintstone's cartoons? That was my introduction to these cool creatures. Although Hanna-Barbera mixed and mingled dinosaurs with our Ice Age friends, you won't find in dinos here as they were long gone by that time. Inside the Museum, there's a whole wall of dire wolf skulls, and an amazing glass-walled laboratory where you can watch the staff and volunteers clean, sort and study the fossils recovered on site. Kids love this place, and there are fun hands-on exhibits for everyone to enjoy. And even though there are animatronics and Disney-esque visuals inside the Museum, that's naturally-occurring methane gas escaping from the Lake Pit if you're wondering about the bubbles.
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