By Katie Kilkenny Labor & Media Reporter Every year, more than one million tourists and Southern California locals stream through the La Brea Tar Pits and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles ...

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 ...

Tar pits – where natural seepage once formed a lake – are even rarer. There are only a handful of substantial pits in North America, including the McKittrick Tar Pits in Kern County, the La Brea Tar ...

The petroleum fly and their larvae thrive in the natural asphalt at the La Brea Tar Pits. In the sticky oil seeps known as the La Brea Tar Pits, the tiny petroleum fly and their larvae thrive in ...

Eight high school students on a school trip at the La Brea Tar Pits were hospitalized Tuesday afternoon after apparently ingesting cannabis edibles, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department ...

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 ...

For the first time ever, the La Brea Tar Pits is on the move across Los Angeles. Where is it going: The Tar Pits trailer is bringing the Ice Age to Los Angeles Unified School District campuses.

which is located about a half mile from the La Brea Tar Pits. City officials believe a seepage pit built to contain tar in the area may have overflowed due to heavy winter rains and rising ground ...

Bubbling in the midst of the glitz and glamour of Los Angeles are the La Brea Tar Pits. These oozing pits of asphalt, located right in downtown L.A., are actively excavated and have produced ...

one that is beginning to echo today's issues. This study from the scientists at the La Brea Tar Pits suggests t Dr. Hugo Schmökel works in the collections area at the La Brea Tar Pits on Aug. 17 ...