“Active entrapment, there,” Emily Lindsey, a curator at the La Brea Tar Pits, said as she ... records of the stretch of time that ended roughly 15,000 years ago in an extinction event ...

Most of the fossils at La Brea date from 11,000 to 50,000 years ago—about 65 million years ... Yes, LA has had great weather ...

The La Brea tar pits captured ... found in the pits give scientists a time machine into the ancient past and reveal a mysterious mass extinction about 13,000 years ago. Species including dire ...

Read full article: Just two of 15 wild geese found trapped in Los Angeles tar pits have ... landscape like a time capsule. About two and a half years ago, researchers at La Brea began using ...

Please look at the time stamp on the story to ... now Wilshire Boulevard about 12,000 years ago. After examining bone specimens at the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum using modern imaging technology ...

Scientists have been extracting huge fossils from the La Brea tar pits since 1913 ... it again. This time they measured everything that was at least a centimeter long, discovering about 450 ...

disappearing about 13,000 years ago. “There's no other site on Earth that even comes close to that,” said Emily Lindsey, the associate curator and excavation site director at La Brea Tar Pits.

While the days of dire wolves and saber-toothed cats have long ... tar of Los Angeles, Calif.—one that is beginning to echo today's issues. This study from the scientists at the La Brea Tar Pits ...

By Soumya Karlamangla The La Brea Tar Pits are among ... now is part of a long-term trend. The issue of drought, rising temperatures and fire — it’s not the first time that Southern California ...

Most of the fossils at La Brea date from 11,000 to 50,000 years ago—about 65 million years ... Yes, LA has had great weather for a very long time. The tar pits were death traps—but still ...