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

This question, posed by Ricky Fulton, was included in one of our latest reader polls: What are the La Brea Tar Pits? Is it a bunch of bubbling tar with dinosaur bones sticking out? You can vote in ...

The La Brea Tar Pits’ makeover ... it difficult to discern where the tar pits start. Manfredi hopes aspects like the triple loop and identifiable entrance sites will create a more interconnected ...

La Brea Tar Pits NPR's Renee Montagne pays a visit to the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, where the a paleontological dig is taking place. The pits once supplied Native Americans and local ...

The La Brea Tar Pits is the only active urban fossil dig site and home to the largest collection of Ice Age fossils in the world. Since its opening in 1977, the Tar Pits museum and site has hosted ...

By Soumya Karlamangla The La Brea Tar Pits are among Los Angeles’s best-known attractions — and among the least understood. The sprawling, grassy grounds on the Miracle Mile are probably ...

Today, the La Brea Tar Pits, a public park and museum, lie between shopping centers and apartment buildings. But the sticky, black asphalt that fills the pits was oozing up from the ground long ...

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 ...

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 ...

Read full article: Preserving the unique history of the La Brea Tar Pits LOS ANGELES - Black gooey methane bubbles pop on the surface of the Lake Pit outside the La Brea Museum in Los Angeles.