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 ...

Every so often, a discovery comes along that changes our understanding of the distant past. In the vast landscapes of the ...

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 exhibit was based on a discovery in the 1940s and 1950s of large woolly mammoth bones. It caused a huge amount of excitement in the city. By the 70s there were much smaller ...

SoCal Museums is offering its annual Free General Admissions Day on Sunday, granting free entry to 30 Southern California Museums.

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After being rescheduled from February, Museums Free-for-All will take place this Sunday, March 16, with 30 museums and ...

The Miracle Mile Residential Association (MMRA) has been in lock step with the Audubon Society in opposition of the new ...

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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 ...

Uglow’s rhythmic text traverses thousands of years as it tells the prehistoric tale of many fossils coming to exist in Los Angeles’s La Brea Tar Pits. At book’s opening, an unsuspecting ...