At the site known today as the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, natural asphalt has bubbled up from below the ground’s surface ...

La Brea Tar Pits has the highest global concentration of dire wolf fossils. They lived in the region for at least 50,000 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Something unspeakably chilling is heating up The City of Angels. Beneath the famed La Brea Tar Pits, a raging volcano pushes to the surface, raining a storm of deadly fire bombs and an endless ...

Around 300 workers at the iconic SoCal institutions will join AFSCME as part of a voluntary recognition agreement with ...

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 ...

Researchers at the Natural History Museum’s La Brea Tar Pits, where a wall is decorated with hundreds of dire wolf skulls, had questions. Namely, are they really dire wolves? Turns out ...

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 ...

Researchers at the Natural History Museum's La Brea Tar Pits, where a wall is decorated with hundreds of dire wolf skulls, had questions.