Oily, gunky, messy tar pits give up some of their many fossils.

Oily, gunky, messy tar pits give up some of their many fossils.

Tar pit at Rancho La Brea Pits, source of thousands of prehistoric animal fossils. Photo by David E. Crawley, courtesy of the University of California-Riverside.

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