“The big animals have pretty broad climate tolerances ... barely been studied but would probably be as rich as the La Brea tar pits,” Lindsey said. Venezuela has several tar pits, for instance ...

Every so often, a discovery comes along that changes our understanding of the distant past. In the vast landscapes of the ...

Head to the La Brea Tar Pits to see an active dig site in the heart of Los Angeles. The tar pits were formed thousands of years ago, from natural sticky asphalt. The asphalt trapped animals ...

The Miracle Mile Residential Association (MMRA) has been in lock step with the Audubon Society in opposition of the new ...

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 ...

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. By the 70s there were much smaller ...

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 ...

Uglow’s rhythmic text traverses thousands of years as it tells the prehistoric tale of many fossils coming to exist in Los Angeles’s La Brea Tar Pits. At book’s opening, an unsuspecting ...