At the site known today as the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, natural asphalt has bubbled up from below the ground’s surface since the Ice Age. This murky sludge has trapped and made fossils out ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Excavators at the La Brea Tar Pits work almost every day to pull fossils out of the ground, clean, and prepare them for further research. With 4 million specimens ...

If your kids go crazy for dinosaurs – and really, what kid doesn't? – then a visit to La Brea Tar Pits is sure to be the highlight of their trip. Although the pits look like the set of a ...