Read full article: Preserving the unique history of the La Brea Tar Pits LOS ANGELES - Black gooey methane bubbles pop on the surface of the Lake Pit outside the La Brea Museum in Los Angeles.

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 ...

If you've never been to the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, it's well worth the visit. Here's what you need to know to plan ...

The La Brea Tar Pits and Page Museum are sites of exploration and an enduring source of wonder. Our proposed reimagination of the park and museum emerges from a close analysis of what is present, ...

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 and Page Museum is one of the coolest places to visit in Los Angeles. Not only can you see Ice Age Fossils on display, you can get up close to bubbling tar. You’ll find all there ...

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 ...