The Page Museum is small but contains an excellent collection of the
fossilized skeletons of the animals recovered from the tar pits. On
display are animals that are anywhere from 10,000 to 40,000 years old.
Many of the skeletons on display are from long extinct species.
Surprisingly there has only been one human skeleton recovered.
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 Although it looks like a pond this is actually a tar pit. It certainly smells like tar. Viewed: 1,427 times. |
 All around the pit you can still see the tar bubbling. Viewed: 1,353 times. |
 Right next to the pit is the Page Museum. Viewed: 628 times. |
 A display explaining the science behind fossils. Viewed: 528 times. |
 A continuation of that display. Viewed: 454 times. |
 Shasta Ground Sloth. Viewed: 786 times. |
 Harlan's Ground Sloth. Viewed: 636 times. |
 Antique Bison. Viewed: 680 times. |
 Extinct Camel. Viewed: 712 times. |
 American Mastodon and calf. Viewed: 607 times. |
 What a Columbian Mastodon may have looked like. Viewed: 850 times. |
 An average sized Columbian Mastodon. Viewed: 609 times. |
 Great view of the huge tusks. Viewed: 613 times. |
 Close-up of the jaw. Viewed: 431 times. |
 Brea Condor. Viewed: 599 times. |
 La Brea Stork. Viewed: 513 times. |
 Merriam's Giant Condor. Viewed: 820 times. |
 Dire Wolf. Viewed: 668 times. |
 Wall of Dire Wolf skulls. Viewed: 502 times. |
 One of the 404 Dire Wolf skulls on the wall. Viewed: 424 times. |
 American Lion. Viewed: 685 times. |
 Extinct Western Horse. Viewed: 613 times. |
 Short-Faced Bear. Viewed: 631 times. |
 A Sabre-Toothed Cat attacking a Sloth. Viewed: 932 times. |
 Sabre-Toothed Cat Family. Viewed: 781 times. |
 A Dire Wolf in the Paleontology Lab. Viewed: 524 times. |
 California Sabre-Tooth skull. Viewed: 524 times. |
 A Mastodon skull being cleaned. Viewed: 401 times. |
 A collection of jaws. Viewed: 429 times. |
 A mass of bones in tar as it would be pulled out of the pit. Viewed: 606 times. |
 A mass of bones packed in plaster for transport. Viewed: 357 times. |
 On top of the museum is a platform to view the pit and a tropical garden in the center. Viewed: 349 times. |
 View of the garden in the middle of the museum. Viewed: 438 times. |