The Wilshire Boulevard landmark poses many tantalizing questions that scientists are trying to solve.

Although the La Brea Tar Pits are short on dinosaur fossils, they’re chock full of fossils from legendary Ice Age animals. The two most commonly found large mammals?

About four years ago, a similar situation occurred when tar poured onto the street near the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Curson Avenue.

If you've never been to the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, it's well worth the visit. Here's what you need to know to plan your trip.

Exhibition design firm Kossmanndejong joins Weiss/Manfredi alongside architect lead Gruen Associates in La Brea Tar Pits' ongoing revamp.

The new research and the CT study are now on display at the museum at La Brea Tar Pits, located at 5801 Wilshire Blvd. For information, call 213-763-3499 or visit tarpits.org.

La Brea is a paleontological research site on Wilshire Boulevard where the bones of animals trapped over many centuries have been preserved in naturally occurring tar.

Upon arriving at the La Brea Tar Pits, visitors are greeted by a penetrating asphalt smell from a sinkhole. Within the sinkhole lies a recreation of a mammoth being trapped in tar, an illustrative ...

As the La Brea Tar Pits & Museum undergoes a major redesign, its leaders hope it can do more to engage the public and educate visitors about the realities of climate change.

Visitors approaching from the La Brea Tar Pits can see portions of "Urban Light" and eventually will have a more direct connection to walk between the tar pits and the LACMA campus.

In grammar school, our favorite field trip was to the La Brea Tar Pits. If you’ve never been, it’s big pool of sludge off of Wilshire Blvd. in the Miracle Mile. It was there before Los Angeles ...