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

The ancient animals were megafauna hunters, ultimately disappearing with the last giant ground sloths and mastodons about 13,000 years ago. Yet last week, Time ... in the La Brea Tar Pits, one ...

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

Indeed, the iconic dire wolf loomed large in Perri's imagination long before ... years ago, they knew there was one place with no shortage of dire wolf fossils: La Brea Tar Pits, an iconic ...

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

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 ...

Studies of tens of thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California have found ... despite obvious evidence of climate change at 20,000 years ago.” Receive a weekly dose of discovery ...