The La Brea Tar Pits are a group of natural asphalt pools in the Miracle Mile neighborhood of Los Angeles. In the middle of ...

Surrounded by a gooey graveyard of prehistoric beasts, a small crew diligently wades through a backlog of fossil finds from a century of excavation at the La Brea Tar Pits in the heart of Los Angeles.

At La Brea Tar Pits, Emily Lindsey digs into Ice Age life beneath LA’s surface. Paleontologist Emily Lindsey uncovers the past beneath the streets of Los Angeles at the La Brea Tar Pits — home to the ...

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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 ...

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

Studies of tens of thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California have found no clear evidence of any of the species evolving in response to falling temperatures as ice sheets spread ...

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 ...

You won't have to dig deep to find fun this Sunday with a program at the Buena Vista Museum of Natural History and Science. Local geologist Tim Elam will present "McKittrick and Maricopa Tar Seeps," a ...