Of the mammals found at La Brea, around 90 percent are carnivores. (Amazingly, the pits have yielded more 200,000 individual dire wolf specimens alone.) ...

Two Canada geese, the only survivors of a flock of about 15 that landed in the La Brea Tar Pits in late July, are recovering from serious burns. The geese, one of the local urban flocks ...

But the unique nature of the La Brea Tar Pits is that they preserved an entire ecosystem between 10,000 to 50,000 years ago, containing massive mammoth tusks and giant sloth bones alongside acorns ...

Only two of seven geese survived after being rescued from the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, the International Bird Rescue said in a news release. On July 31, a flock of 15 Canada geese landed ...

The Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits already has plenty of fossils from the Ice Age. But the museum announced a "mammoth" discovery that could double the size of its collection. KPCC's Brian ...

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 ...

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.

Scientists at the La Brea Tar Pits have found the largest known cache of fossils from the last ice age. KPCC's Steve Julian spoke with Shelly Cox, a researcher at the George Page Museum at the Tar ...

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… ...

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 ...

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 ...