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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...