La Brea Tar Pits has the highest global concentration of dire wolf fossils. They lived in the region for at least 50,000 years, disappearing about 13,000 years ago.

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 ...

We walked through the open gates of the La Brea Tar Pits and found ourselves inside the 23-acre park and museum. The first thing we came across was a heavily fenced-in tar pit with life size mammoths.

La Brea Woman is the name given to the only human ever excavated from the La Brea Tar Pits.

Thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California show no signs of mammals and birds evolving in response to shifting temperatures over the past 50,000 years By Michael Le Page 28 May 2025 ...

June 7, 2013 -- An LAPD police officer emerged from the famous La Brea Tar Pits, famous for the extinct animals who died in its muck, with a piece of evidence to a 2011 murder, police said.

The Hollywood sign, the Santa Monica Pier, the La Brea Tar Pits – some things are unmistakably L.A. But, as L.A. Times columnist Patt Morrison writes, it could be time to say goodbye to one ...

La Brea Tar Pits scientists successfully identify a previously unknown species to Southern California from fossilized seeds, revealing a drought-fueled dance between two species of juniper with ...

La Brea Tar Pits has the highest concentration of dire wolf fossils in the world, with remains from over 4,000 dire wolves found at the site. They lived in the region for at least 50,000 years ...