Yes, birds are dinosaurs.) Most of the fossils at La Brea date from 11,000 to 50,000 years ago—about 65 million years after all other dinosaurs went extinct.

Discover more about the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, where plants and animals from the last 50,000 years are discovered every day. The museum is located right in the heart of Los Angeles.

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.

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 ...

What to Know Art + Science Family Festival at the La Brea Tar Pits Presented by Getty Nov. 9-11 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Free admission; RSVP on the festival website The Academy Museum, located just west ...

What to Know Summer Nights La Brea Tar Pits Free; RSVP is required July 18 and 25 6-9 p.m. DJ music, discussions highlighting the intersection of art and paleontology, a tar pits-inspired game ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...