At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover the secrets of what the Earth was ...

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 ...

The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, the La Brea Tar Pits Museum, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art are all offering free admission through Jan. 17. “We hope our museums can ...

La Brea Tar Pits scientists successfully identify a previously unknown species to Southern California from fossilized seeds, revealing a drought-fueled dance between two species of juniper with ...

Their conditions were not released. Amy Hood of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, which oversees the La Brea Tar Pits, told the Los Angeles Times that the teens were high school ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Several teenage students became ill ...

The students were transported to area hospitals in fair condition, LAFD said. Eight teenagers got "acutely ill" and were transported to the hospital after ingesting marijuana edibles during a ...

Scientists have been extracting huge fossils from the La Brea tar pits since 1913. Many of the animals lived during the Ice Age, as far back as 50,000 years ago. The tar pits have preserved an ...

“We think they were probably ambush predators,” says Emily Lindsey, associate curator and excavation site director at the La Brea Tar Pits museum and paleontology research site. When it ...

Donate now. For the first time ever, the La Brea Tar Pits is on the move across Los Angeles. The Tar Pits trailer is bringing the Ice Age to Los Angeles Unified School District campuses.

Bubbling in the midst of the glitz and glamour of Los Angeles are the La Brea Tar Pits. These oozing pits of asphalt, located right in downtown L.A., are actively excavated and have produced ...