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

Twice he got stuck in gelatinous tar of the La Brea Tar Pits, his protective suit filled with muck, and the gas constantly bubbling up from the depths left him lightheaded with a burning throat.

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 ...

But when a murder enquiry began, he faced a new and quite dangerous challenge: retrieving evidence from the La Brea tar pits. These are pre-historic pits of bubbling tar right in the heart of the ...

Did you know that people can discover fossils in a major city? Head to the La Brea Tar Pits to see an active dig site in the heart of Los Angeles. The tar pits were formed thousands of years ago ...