After a flock of 15 wild Canada geese mistakenly landed in the Los Angeles Tar Pit’s hot and sticky goo just over two weeks ago, only two are in recovery.

Check out the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES - Black gooey methane bubbles pop on the surface of the Lake Pit outside the La Brea Museum in Los Angeles. More than 100 species of birds and a number of other species were first described after being found at La Brea. But only a few of them formed in the way that La Brea did, capturing the rich, diverse nature of the landscape like a time capsule. About two and a half years ago, researchers at La Brea began using 3D scanning technology. A unique hallmark of the La Brea bones is a shiny, dark brown tone due the liquid asphalt.

Saber-toothed cats, dire wolves and coyotes had different hunting patterns according to a new study of predator fossils found in the La Brea Tar Pits. Over the last decade, DeSantis used a dentistry approach to study the teeth of now-extinct predators like saber-toothed cats, dire wolves and American lions. "Isotopes from the bones previously suggested that the diets of saber-toothed cats and dire wolves overlapped completely, but the isotopes from their teeth give a very different picture," DeSantis said in a statement. "The cats, including saber-toothed cats, American lions and cougars, hunted prey that preferred forests, while it was the dire wolves that seemed to specialize on open-country feeders like bison and horses. Multiple factors likely contributed to the extinction of American lions, saber-toothed cats and dire wolves, including climate change, humans arriving in the same environment or a combination of both factors.