The La Brea Tar Pits is one of the most unique museums in Los Angeles. The tar pits were created as a result of natural asphalt seeping up from the ground over thousands of years. Ancient, now-extinct ...

Workers at the La Brea Tar Pits and Natural History Museum of Los Angeles have formed a union after a card count. Around 300 workers at the iconic SoCal institutions will join ...

Most museums — including the Natural History Museum in Exposition Park, the La Brea Tar Pits, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures — are also ...

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 ...

The modern era of the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum begins in 1875, when the Hancock family presented an old cat’s tooth, found on their property, to visiting academic William Denton.

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 ...

Pachyderms perpetually in peril at the La Brea Tar Pits. 📍 Google Maps | Phone: (213) 763-3499 | Website | Hours: 9:30 am – 5 pm, Closed first Tuesday of every month | Free (Museum Entrance: $18, ...

The La Brea Tar Pits — home to more than 3.5 million Ice Age fossils — is one of the planet’s best-kept records of what it was like in the area we now know as Southern California over the ...

If you want the La Brea Tar Pits mobile museum to visit your school, you can request it here. Registration for the spring 2024 semester opened in October and is expected to fill up quickly.

LA PUENTE, Calif. (KABC) -- If you really want to learn about the ancient history of the L.A. area, you visit the La Brea Tar Pits and museum in the mid-city area. Now, students can learn about ...

La Brea Tar Pits + Museum Rating: Very Good Strong Points: Numerous resources available on the site; detailed overview of the museum’s collection, including 3D renderings. Weak Points: Some ...