At the site known today as the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, natural asphalt has bubbled up from below the ground’s surface since the Ice Age. This murky sludge has trapped and made fossils out ...

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 cheesy PG movie, hot tar has been bubbling from the earth at this spot along ...

We walked through the open gates of the La Brea Tar Pits and found ourselves ... while also illustrating how they became trapped in the tar pits. The movie is well worth the extra $8 per person ...

Beneath the famed La Brea Tar Pits, a raging volcano has formed, raining a storm of deadly fire bombs and an endless tide of white-hot lava upon the stunned city!

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 ...

Volunteers get their hands dirty – and like it – at Los Angeles’ La Brea Tar Pits. Every Thursday morning, Judith Sydner-Gordon puts on the same simple uniform: khaki cargo pants and an ...

Did you know that people can discover fossils in a major city? 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 ...