Most people know of dire wolves from “Game of Thrones.” The species isn’t actually fictional, but it has been extinct for thousands of years. Now, scientists say they’ve brought the dire ...

More than 4,000 wolves were pulled from the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles alone. They are understood to have been hunters of the many large mammals that populated the Americas before the arrival ...

Researchers at the Natural History Museum's La Brea Tar Pits, where a wall is decorated with hundreds of dire wolf skulls, had questions. Namely, are they really dire wolves? Turns out ...

Bones from thousands of dire wolves spanning thousands of years have been found in the tar pits. Dire wolves diverged ... pictured at five months. The new picture of how dire wolves evolved ...

California was formed around the La Brea TAR Pits. For tens of thousands of years, natural asphalt has seeped up from the ground in this area. The TAR preserved the bones of animals unlucky enough ...

Weis/Manfredi’s current work includes the U.S. embassy in New Delhi, India, the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, and revitalizing the western side of New York City’s Lincoln Center for the ...

These remains have painted a vibrant picture of the Pleistocene epoch, teeming with predators and prey locked in a daily struggle for survival. The tar pits also remind us that extinction can come ...

Visitors to the La Brea Tar Pits are aware of the species' role in the ecosystem of primordial Southern California, thanks to a wall at the museum displaying hundreds of dire wolf skulls extracted ...

is where two of LA's most popular museums reside – the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the La Brea Tar Pits. And just north of the museums in La Brea sits the highly touted Farmers Market ...

They disappeared at the end of the last Ice Age, likely due to climate change and the extinction of their prey. The La Brea Tar Pits in Southern California contain numerous dire wolf fossils, making ...