According to a latest report, due to the discovery of the remains of extinct animals from ants to mastodons, Los Angeles is celebrating a century of scientific discoveries from the La Brea tar pits.

According to sources, The George C. Page Museum, which contains findings from the pits in a building, celebrated their anniversary on a large scale.

The museum celebrates 100 years of digging and is also known as the richest hoard of Ice Age fossils. This is due to the fact that the museum has recovered about 5.5 million bones representing more than 600 species of animals and plants.

The sources reveal that the museum is still under the process of improvement as sights of the completion of the museum are very common in the building. It is also revealed by the researchers of the museum that it could easily take another century to complete.

There is a lot work to be done in the museum such as cleaning of the floors and ceilings and all the shelves of wooden crates house bones. Many specimens also need to be labeled in the museum. About 100,000 specimens are estimated to be there in the museum along with another million to scrub.