A new chapter is beginning at the La Brea Tar Pits, and a groundbreaking ceremony was held Thursday to kick off the next ...

Over the past tens of thousands of years, the La Brea Tar Pits in modern-day Los Angeles became the final resting place for millions of animals that got stuck in its dark, sticky pools. Today, some of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An image collage containing 3 images, Image 1 shows Illustration of animals at the La Brea Tar Pits, including a dark Spea labreae ...

Over the next two years, the Los Angeles institution must pack, move and unpack 3.5 million fossils, while modernizing to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration credited to Arturo Davalos that reconstructs a Late Pleistocene wetland at Rancho La Brea. (CREDIT: Arturo Davalos ...

Learn more about a newly identified Ice Age toad species whose fossils sat unnoticed in a La Brea Tar Pits collection for decades. Scientists have studied the animals trapped in the hidden depths of ...

The La Brea Tar Pits are a group of natural asphalt pools in the Miracle Mile neighborhood of Los Angeles. In the middle of the nation’s second-largest city, millions of fossils of animals that were ...

The La Brea Tar Pits & Museum is finally getting a star attraction: Zed, a roughly 40,000-year-old Columbian mammoth. Zed was discovered two decades ago when the Los Angeles County Museum of Art began ...

Illustration of the La Brea Tar Pit's ancient habitat, with the newly discovered toad species (center and right) and the Mexican burrowing toad (bottom) Arturo Dávalos Over the past tens of thousands ...

In the heart of urban Los Angeles lie the La Brea Tar Pits, a group of natural asphalt seeps made famous by the millions of ice age fossils preserved within the bubbling, dark pools of goo.