{"id":73961,"date":"2026-05-24T10:57:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T15:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/pompeii-but-in-the-middle-of-a-massive-city-the-ice-age-fossil-site-hidden-in-los-angeles\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T10:57:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T15:57:29","slug":"pompeii-but-in-the-middle-of-a-massive-city-the-ice-age-fossil-site-hidden-in-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/pompeii-but-in-the-middle-of-a-massive-city-the-ice-age-fossil-site-hidden-in-los-angeles\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Pompeii, but in the middle of a massive city\u2019: the ice age fossil site hidden in Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>La Brea Tar Pits \u2013 the only urban, active ice age excavation site in world \u2013 gets a mammoth face lift for the first time in nearly 50 years<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles is known for famous museum such as the Getty and the Lacma, but perhaps fewer people are aware that \u2013 in the heart of the city \u2013 lies a museum that contains one of the world\u2019s most remarkable fossil sites.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/tarpits.org\/la-brea-tar-pits-history\">La Brea Tar Pits and Museum<\/a> is home to the remains of more than 2 million ice age flora and fauna, including mastodons and saber-toothed cats, that became trapped in oily pools that still bubble up today.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/24\/la-brea-tar-pits-museum\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La Brea Tar Pits \u2013 the only urban, active ice age excavation site in world \u2013 gets a mammoth face lift for the first time in nearly 50 years Los Angeles is known for famous museum such as the Getty and the Lacma, but perhaps fewer people are aware that \u2013 in the heart of &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Pompeii, but in the middle of a massive city\u2019: the ice age fossil site hidden in Los Angeles\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/pompeii-but-in-the-middle-of-a-massive-city-the-ice-age-fossil-site-hidden-in-los-angeles\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Pompeii, but in the middle of a massive city\u2019: the ice age fossil site hidden in Los Angeles\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}