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

An curved arrow pointing right. Excavators at the La Brea Tar Pits work almost every day to pull fossils out of the ground, clean, and prepare them for further research. With 4 million specimens ...

If your kids go crazy for dinosaurs – and really, what kid doesn't? – then a visit to La Brea Tar Pits is sure to be the highlight of their trip. Although the pits look like the set of a ...

The La Brea Tar Pits exhibit was based on a discovery in the 1940s and 1950s of large woolly mammoth bones. It caused a huge amount of excitement in the city.

La Brea Tar Pits scientists have identified a previously unknown juniper species as Juniperus scopulorum, commonly known as ...