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La Brea Tar Pits

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A cluster of oil seeps in Los Angeles, California. They have yielded a wealth of fossils from prehistoric animals and plants that became trapped in the asphalt of the pools between 40,000 and 8,000 years ago.

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  • She wore SPF 60 every day, and she knew all about the La Brea Tar Pits.

    Ruby Lu Star of the Star of the Show Lenore Look 2011

  • She wore SPF 60 every day, and she knew all about the La Brea Tar Pits.

    Ruby Lu Star of the Star of the Show Lenore Look 2011

  • She wore SPF 60 every day, and she knew all about the La Brea Tar Pits.

    Ruby Lu Star of the Star of the Show Lenore Look 2011

  • She wore SPF 60 every day, and she knew all about the La Brea Tar Pits.

    Ruby Lu Star of the Star of the Show Lenore Look 2011

  • So, while Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan and most of Europe all have high speed rail systems or are in the process of building them, we remain as mired in oil as the fossils stuck in the La Brea Tar Pits.

    Kerry Trueman: America's Auto Asphyxiation: We Put the Loco in Locomotion 2010

  • The most fitting template for Congress, rather, is the La Brea Tar Pits — a place where doomed life-forms absently topple into the sticky abyss, with only their outward frames preserved for puzzled generations centuries down the line.

    Swamp Things: Pelosi���s Bench Rolls Over on Iraq 2007

  • Yangin-Atep lay mythical for nearly fourteen thousand years, entombed in petroleum tar, until two men came to dig for oil in the La Brea Tar Pits.

    The Burning City Niven, Larry 2000

  • Yangin-Atep lay mythical for nearly fourteen thousand years, entombed in petroleum tar, until two men came to dig for oil in the La Brea Tar Pits.

    The Burning City Larry Niven 2000

  • Visitors roam the grassy slopes of Hancock Park, next to LACMA and home to the George C. Page Museum and the La Brea Tar Pits, which front the boulevard much as they always have, life-size pachyderms trumpeting in the tar.

    Forbes.com: News David L. Ulin 2011

  • Justin Locklear is impressive as Pony, he might have off as Donny Osmond or Suzy Creamcheese, but his affability and congeniality feel authentic, even when he steps into the La Brea Tar Pits.

    PegasusNews.com stories Christopher Soden 2010

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