The Wilshire Boulevard landmark poses many tantalizing questions that scientists are trying ... The La Brea Tar Pits are positioned to help solve the mystery of why precisely the giant mammals ...

The Wilshire Boulevard landmark poses many tantalizing questions that scientists are trying to solve. The La Brea Tar Pits are full of mysteries. Here are three of the most puzzling ...

Pools of oozing tar have prompted officials to put up signs warning drivers on Masselin Avenue Wednesday in the Mid-Wilshire neighborhood of Los Angeles. The leakage has been going on for a few ...

The new research and the CT study are now on display at the museum at La Brea Tar Pits, located at 5801 Wilshire Blvd. For information, call 213-763-3499 or visit tarpits.org .

We walked through the open gates of the La Brea Tar Pits and found ourselves inside the 23-acre park and museum. The first thing we came across was a heavily fenced-in tar pit with life size mammoths.

The La Brea Tar Pits is an active fossil dig site, where plants and animals from the last 50,000 years are discovered every day. In the outdoor space, excavators carve fossils out of the asphalt; ...

The La Brea Tar Pits’ makeover team is adding new members. Lori Bettison-Varga, the president and director of the National History Museums of Los Angeles County, announced today that the La Brea ...

La Brea is a paleontological research site on Wilshire Boulevard where the bones of animals trapped over many centuries have been preserved in naturally occurring tar. Originally Published: May 15 ...

The La Brea Tar Pits exhibit was based on a discovery in the 1940s and 1950s of large woolly mammoth bones. It caused a huge amount of excitement in the city. By the 70s there were much smaller ...

As the La Brea Tar Pits & Museum undergoes a major redesign, its leaders hope it can do more to engage the public and educate visitors about the realities of climate change. Only in Los Angeles ...