Change is coming to Los Angeles' La Brea Tar Pits and possibly its beloved, tar-trapped mammoth. Three acclaimed architecture firms unveiled proposals to remake the site.

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Three architect-led teams have unveiled conceptual approaches for reimagining the famed La Brea Tar Pits, an active Ice Age excavation site in the middle of Los Angeles. The designs revealed ...

The La Brea Tar Pits, formed some 38,000 years ago and excavated in 1913, are getting a fresh new look. Or, at least, the land surrounding the pits is being rethought.

The La Brea Tar Pits’ makeover team is adding new members. Lori Bettison-Varga, the president and director of the National History Museums of Los Angeles County, announced today that the La Brea ...

The La Brea Tar Pits -- and its mammoth statue perpetually trapped in said tar while its long-suffering mammoth family screams helplessly on the banks -- are an L.A. icon.

La_Brea_Tar_PitsJust two of 15 wild geese found trapped in Los Angeles tar pits have survived After a flock of 15 wild Canada geese mistakenly landed in the Los Angeles Tar Pit’s hot and sticky ...

Dr. Hugo Schmökel works in the collections area at the La Brea Tar Pits on Aug. 17, 2023, in Los Angeles, Calif. The museum and park holds the world’s largest collection of Pleistocene f… ...

I can check that off my list as a tourist of LA." Saturday evening, locals told KCAL9's Jeff Nguyen that they have become quite accustomed to seeing tar oozing up through the sidewalks -- just not ...

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The LAPD sent a diver into the La Brea Tar Pits yesterday to try to recover evidence in an old, "high profile" murder investigation (they'd apparently been planning it for weeks)--they were ...

The Rancho La Brea Tar Pits are among the most fascinating sites in Southern California, located in an attractive park in the mid-Wilshire district of Los Angeles.You can see one of the huge tar ...