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

At the site known today as the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, natural asphalt has bubbled up from below the ground’s surface ...

By Katie Kilkenny Labor & Media Reporter 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 ...

In grammar school, our favorite field trip was to the La Brea Tar Pits. If you’ve never been ... in the 1940s and 1950s of large woolly mammoth bones. It caused a huge amount of excitement ...

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 ...

This is a mammoth skeleton display at La Brea Tar Pits Museum. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing ...

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 ...

Researchers at the Natural History Museum’s La Brea Tar Pits, where a wall is decorated ... de-extinction hopes include reviving the woolly mammoth, the dodo, and the thylacine, or Tasmanian ...

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 ...

This undated photo provided by Colossal Biosciences shows a young wolf that was genetically engineered with similarities to the extinct dire wolf. (Colossal Biosciences via Associated Press) ...

Researchers at the Natural History Museum's La Brea Tar Pits, where a wall is decorated with hundreds of dire wolf skulls, had questions.