There’s a gooey time capsule in the heart of Los Angeles, left over from an era when saber-toothed cats, dire wolves, camels, ...

Scientists have been extracting huge fossils from the La Brea tar pits since 1913. Many of the animals lived during the Ice Age, as far back as 50,000 years ago. The tar pits have preserved an entire ...

Strong Points: Numerous resources available on the site; detailed overview of the museum’s collection, including 3D renderings. Weak Points: Some features seem to be unavailable over the summer.

The La Brea Tar Pits – home to more than 3.5 million Ice Age fossils – is one of the planet’s best-kept records of what it was like in the area we now know as Southern California over the last 60,000 ...

The La Brea Tar Pits are a group of natural asphalt pools in the Miracle Mile neighborhood of Los Angeles. In the middle of the nation’s second-largest city, millions of fossils of animals that were ...

La Brea Tar Pits scientists successfully identify a previously unknown species to Southern California from fossilized seeds, revealing a drought-fueled dance between two species of juniper with ...

Two Canada geese, the only survivors of a flock of about 15 that landed in the La Brea Tar Pits in late July, are recovering from serious burns. The geese, one of the local urban flocks, mistakenly ...

When news broke that scientists in Texas had successfully reintroduced the long-extinct dire wolf to the modern world, more people than just “Game of Thrones” fans took notice. Researchers at the ...

An LAPD officer dived into California tar pits in search for clues to a murder. June 7, 2013— -- An LAPD police officer emerged from the famous La Brea Tar Pits, famous for the extinct animals ...

Around 300 workers at the iconic SoCal institutions will join AFSCME as part of a voluntary recognition agreement with management. By Katie Kilkenny Labor & Media Reporter Every year, more than one ...