Lions, and tigers, and bears, oh my! Is it the land of Oz? Not exactly, but almost as fantastic to imagine. Forty thousand years ago, during the last ice age, mastadons, saber tooth cats, american lions and camels (yes, camels) roamed the Los Angeles and southern California countryside. Thousands became entraped in the asphalt seeps at Rancho La Brea, their remains preserved in the tar, giving rise today to one of the world's largest collections of ice age fossils. The Page museum is like a time machine taking your class back to Los Angeles during the last ice age. Enormous skeletons of long extinct animals, an entire wall of hundreds of dire wolf skulls pulled from the tar, and murals depicting Los Angeles' ice age landscape, decorate the museum. Walk outside in the surrounding Hancock Park and the asphalt seeps are still there. In fact, that mudpuddle you just stepped in -- isn't mud, it's asphalt. Watch your step. Wait there's more, the La Brea Tar Pits is still an active paleontologic excavation site. Inside and outside the museum, visitors can observe paleontologists at work excavating, cleaning and cataloging fossil remains pulled from the sticky tar. The asphalt itself is an earth sciences lesson. Fossil fuel formed in ancient sea beds, oozes up to create the asphalt seeps. The Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits brings prehistoric Los Angeles to life!