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 ...

There’s a gooey time capsule in the heart of Los Angeles, left over from an era when saber-toothed cats, dire wolves, camels, ...

Besides rock, fossils may be found as the result of an organism being entombed in ice, tar (like the famous La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles), or amber, in which ancient insects have been found ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a massive Columbian mammoth skull in Texas, offering new insights into prehistoric life.

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 ...

And from the gooiest part of LA, more than 3.5 million fossils have been discovered. The adjoining museum houses many of the artifacts found at the tar pits; consequently, it is home to one of the ...

and so are bogs and tar pits which lack many micro-organisms which could further disintegrate the remains. Although some wet environments, especially anaerobic ones, offer fossil-friendly ...

Under certain conditions fossils might not have been created ... dead animals and plants can be preserved in amber, peat bogs, tar pits, or in ice. Amber close amberHardened tree resin.

After your visit, you can head next door for a refresher in Ice Age history at the La Brea Tar Pits. While the bubbling Lake Pit is always free to visit, the museum—where you can see fossils of ...