Thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California show no signs of mammals and birds evolving in response to ...

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 ...

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After 128 years of exploration and fossil excavation, researchers have finally unearthed the skull of Genyornis newtoni.

Dire wolf skulls have been found in the La Brea Tar Pits, one of the richest and most diverse collection of Ice Age fossils. The ancient canids likely lived in packs, coordinating with each other ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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

Marisa Méndez Next door to the La Brea Tar Pits sits the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the linchpin of the Los Angeles museum district. Since its 1965 opening, LACMA has showcased thousands ...

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 ...