Today, the La Brea Tar Pits, a public park and museum, lie between shopping centers and apartment buildings. But the sticky, black asphalt that fills the pits was oozing up from the ground long before ...

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 ...

Lions also stalked prey around the tar pits. The gigantic American lion may have weighed up to 900 pounds, over 300 pounds more than a typical lion today. They had retractable claws like house ...

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 ...

Sergeant David Mascarenas is an underwater diver for the police in the American city of Los Angeles ... retrieving evidence from the La Brea tar pits. These are pre-historic pits of bubbling ...

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 ...

Natural Trap Cave near Lovell is one of the best Ice Age fossil sites in the world, but its lack of saber-toothed cats and giant ground sloths ...

"There used to be cow-sized wombats in Australia, and there were armadillos the size of cars in South America," Emily Lindsey ...

From fearsome land mammals to deadly sea creatures, we rank the most terrifying animals that once roamed Earth.

Break out the hyperbole and excited fan language yet again: We love the La Brea Tar Pits and all of the cool goings-on that take place there. And the bubbling bastion of fossil fabulousness is the ...

Read full article: Just two of 15 wild geese found trapped in Los Angeles tar pits have survived After ... dire wolves and American lions. "Isotopes from the bones previously suggested that ...

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 ...