Read full article: Preserving the unique history of the La Brea Tar Pits LOS ANGELES - Black gooey methane bubbles pop on the surface of the Lake Pit outside the La Brea Museum in Los Angeles.

At the site known today as the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, natural asphalt has bubbled up from below the ground’s surface ...

A dive into the deep dark depths of the La Brea Tar Pits by Los Angeles police Thursday ... high-powered magnets and sonar to map the area. Video cameras were able to focus on possible items ...

Like many other visitors to the La Brea tar pits, sisters Samantha and Katie Salazar watched a basketball-sized bubble emerge from dark, slimy gunk Sunday and wondered, why are the tar pits bubbly?

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. Only in Los Angeles ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES -- Like many visitors to the Rancho La Brea Tar Pits, sisters Samantha and Katie Salazar watched a basketball-size bubble emerge from dark, slimy gunk Sunday and wondered, why are the ...

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 ...