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 ...

Today on The Conversation Weekly podcast, we’re revisiting an interview we ran in late 2023 with Emily Lindsey, a paleoecologist who works at the La Brea tar pits archaeological site in Los ...

I lived in Santa Monica until I was 8, and I loved the smell of the La Brea Tar Pits. The sharp tang of the tar and the musty ...

There’s always something different or new to do in the San Fernando Valley and the greater Los Angeles area, but check in ...

Next door to the La Brea Tar Pits sits the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the linchpin of the Los Angeles museum district. Since its 1965 opening, LACMA has showcased thousands of pieces ...

The only constant in life is change, but some changes are harder than others. If you are a parent who recently launched a child into college or the workplace, or newly retired, knowing what to do with ...

For nearly 30 million years, a 2,000-pound beast known as the entelodont ruled a sweeping empire from Mongolia to what is now ...

The only constant in life is change, but some changes are harder than others. If you are a parent who recently launched a child into college or the workplace, or newly retired, knowing what to do ...

It indicates, "this type of media can be played." Watch how new fossils at the La Brea Tar Pits are discovered, cleaned, and pieced together to build a record of the last 50,000 years. A triangle ...

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 ...

6. Shop on Olvera Street. 7. Go whale watching. 8. Enjoy a picnic at Los Angeles State Historic Park. 9. Explore the Ice Age at the La Brea Tar Pits. 10. Hang out in Malibu. 11. Take the family to the ...