This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. More than 13,000 years ago, when an ...
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 ...
While the days of dire wolves and saber-toothed cats have long since passed, a new study is emerging from the sticky tar of Los Angeles, Calif.—one that is beginning to echo today's issues. This study ...
Some 14,000 years ago, downtown Los Angeles was awash with dire wolves, saber-toothed cats, nearly one-ton camels and 10-foot-long ground sloths. But in the geologic blink of an eye, everything ...
Two of Los Angeles' great institutions of learning are offering free admission for LAUSD students. The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County in Exposition Park and La Brea Tar Pits in Hancock ...
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 ...
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