It is still happening today. Small birds and animals still become trapped in the La Brea Tar Pits.

VOA: special.2010.04.07

He is born into a Levite family. The Levites will be priests in Israel, so he's born to a priestly family. He's hidden away for three months, and then he's placed in a wicker basket, which is lined with bitumen, a tar, and set among the bulrushes at the edge of the Nile River.

他出生于利未家庭，利未人都将在以色列做牧师，他出生于一个牧师家庭，他被藏了三个月，后来他被放在蒲草篮子中，上面涂了石漆和石油，搁在了尼罗河畔的芦荻中。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

North Carolina is the Tar Heel State.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

"We think that for the South Florida parks, Dry Tortugas,Big Cypress, Everglades and Biscayne, it is predominately going to be a tar ball event because the oil is weathering."

VOA: standard.2010.05.26