Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A visitor takes pictures of the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles on April 8, 2021. (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images) After ...

There’s a gooey time capsule in the heart of Los Angeles, left over from an era when saber-toothed cats, dire wolves, camels, and giant sloths prowled Southern California. At the site known today as ...

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 ...

Scientists have been extracting huge fossils from the La Brea tar pits since 1913. Many of the animals lived during the Ice Age, as far back as 50,000 years ago. The tar pits have preserved an entire ...