Across millennia, the tar pits captured over ten thousand mammals ... That’s why asphalt deposits around the world are particularly interesting to paleontologists. “It just so happens that ...

La Brea Tar Pits scientists have successfully identified a previously unknown species to Southern California through ...

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 ...

But when a murder enquiry began, he faced a new and quite dangerous challenge: retrieving evidence from the La Brea tar pits. These are pre-historic pits of bubbling tar right in the heart of the ...

Appropriately named because of the inky sludge that oozes out, these tar pits in Carpinteria are only one of five located in ...

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 adjoining museum houses many of the artifacts found at the tar pits; consequently, it is home to one of the largest collections of Ice Age fossils in the world. Recent visitors said the site ...