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 ...

The Hollywood sign, the Santa Monica Pier, the La Brea Tar Pits – some things are unmistakably L.A. But, as L.A. Times columnist Patt Morrison writes, it could be time to say goodbye to one ...

Bones from thousands of dire wolves spanning thousands of years have been found in the tar pits. Dire wolves diverged from other canids, including golden jackals (pictured) around five million ...

A study of extinct dire wolf DNA reveals surprises, including that the carnivores, made famous as fictional pets in Game of Thrones, weren't closely related to wolves. Dire wolves, with reddish ...

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 ...

While there, she conducted research at the nearby La Brea Tar Pits and became familiar with Late Pleistocene fauna. When she joined Des Moines University, as a professor of anatomy, she began ...

The scavenger hunt takes the teams to the comic book store, the planetarium, the La Brea Tar Pits, and the Caltech geology lab. As the game progresses, Sheldon and Penny have their classic comedy ...

Planning a trip? The Tar Pits are still an active excavation site in the middle of a modern city. And a visit to this family-friendly archeology museum here takes you back to a time when LA was ...