Unearth Fossil Discoveries Online With the La Brea Tar Pits
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Excavation is never ending at the La Brea Tar Pits. Though the museum is closed, their work uncovering fossils dating back 11,000 to 55,000 years ago to the Ice Age continues. Photo courtesy of La Brea Tar Pits & Museum
Budding paleontologists can now learn virtually about the only active Ice Age urban fossil site in the world that is located at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles.
“It is a very dynamic place,” said Agnes Novie, coordinator, school programs for 10 years at the La Brea Tar Pits. “It is a pretty special place to be.”
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The Getty Foundation has started to distribute research grants for the third edition of the multi-venue exhibition series Pacific Standard Time in 2024, awarding $5.38m to 45 cultural, educational, and scientific institutions throughout Southern California to start preparing shows on the theme of art and science.
“We couldn t be more pleased at the inventive ways that the institutions engaged with the themes, from multiple projects that explore Indigenous knowledge systems, to projects that bring together artists and scientists to imagine new sustainable futures,” says Joan Weinstein, the director of the Getty Foundation. “This comes at an interesting moment that will allow us to exert the validity of science at a time when it’s been under siege, but at the same time, many of these projects question the neutrality and objectivity of science, and