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 ...

Besides rock, fossils may be found as the result of an organism being entombed in ice, tar (like the famous La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles), or amber, in which ancient insects have been found ...

paleontologists are hard at work sorting through one of the richest collections of ice age fossils in the world. Today, the La Brea Tar Pits, a public park and museum, lie between shopping centers ...

Within the sprawling metropolis of Los Angeles, not far from West Hollywood and Beverly Hills, paleontologists are hard at work sorting through one of the richest collections of ice age fossils in the ...

The result is an incredibly rich collection of fossils dating from the last ice age." You know about the Rancho La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles right? I am sure that you have heard of them ...

The tar pits have preserved everything from massive mammoths to specks of pollen. "That's really rare for a fossil site," Davis said. It's unusual that both plants and animals fossilize in the ...

Sharp discovered the dire wolf fossil as well as others displayed at Monday’s press conference at the La Brea Tar Pits Museum, which is built on the site where hundreds of prehistoric animals are ...

Carnivorous dinosaurs may seem like the scariest prehistoric animals, but some prehistoric creatures were far more ferocious ...

Saber-toothed cats, dire wolves and coyotes had different hunting patterns according to a new study of predator fossils found in the La Brea Tar Pits. Over the last decade, DeSantis used a ...

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 ...

And from the gooiest part of LA, more than 3.5 million fossils have been discovered. The adjoining museum houses many of the artifacts found at the tar pits; consequently, it is home to one of the ...