Right in the middle of LA, Hollywood area is the La Brea Tar Pits musuem. But what is interesting is that it is also the site of a working archaeological dig!
The fossils are from pre-ice age about 50,000 years ago. Apparently when the tar was extracted to pave the streets of San Francisco, they discovered the tooth of the Saber tooth cat and that led to discovering 3 million other fossils. In recent times in an effort to span the museum's parking during the excavation for a basement carpark, they stumbled upon another huge fossil collection that may contain up to another 3 million fossils.
