By Taylor Nicioli, CNN(CNN) — In the heart of urban Los Angeles lie the La Brea Tar Pits, a group of natural asphalt seeps made famous by the millions of ice age fossils preserved within the bubbling, dark pools of goo. Now, scientists have discovered the first extinct ice age amphibian from Los Angeles, a spadefoot toad named after the tar pits: Spea labreae. Because amphibian bones are small and fragile, they are rare to come by. Today, the toad lives in the lowlands of Central America, Mexico and extreme southern Texas, so unearthing it in Los Angeles was quite unusual. Their nearest known populations are about 1,550 miles (nearly 2,500 kilometers) away in southern Mexico, according to a news release from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.