Yes, birds are dinosaurs.) Most of the fossils at La Brea date from 11,000 to 50,000 years ago—about 65 million years after all other dinosaurs went extinct.

Every year, more than one million tourists and Southern California locals stream through the La Brea Tar Pits and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, taking in prehistoric fossils ...

At the La Brea Tar Pits & Museum's 3D theater, they can watch "Titans of the Ice Age," a short but thrilling animated film. There's also "Ice Age Encounters," a puppet show starring a saber ...

8 teens on La Brea Tar Pits trip hospitalized after ingesting ‘cannabis edibles,’ Fire Dept. says Eight young people were taken to the hospital Tuesday from the La Brea Tar Pits.

La Brea tar pit scientists find mammoths, saber-tooth cats, dire wolves and more in asphalt. Here's how they've uncovered fossils for over 100 years.

Discover more about the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, where plants and animals from the last 50,000 years are discovered every day. The museum is located right in the heart of Los Angeles.

More than 400,000 people visit the Tar Pits annually, which have yielded millions of fossils including saber-toothed cats, dire wolf and mastodon skeletons, as well as samples of plants, small ...

The La Brea Tar Pits – home to more than 3.5 million Ice Age fossils – is one of the planet’s best-kept records of what it was like in the area we now know as Southern California over the ...

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 ...