The only dinosaurs found at the La Brea Tar Pits are birds. After the paleontologists at La Brea have convinced you they aren’t robots, they’ll be quick to clear up another misconception ...

More than 100 species of birds and a number of other species ... to a new study of predator fossils found in the La Brea Tar Pits. Over the last decade, DeSantis used a dentistry approach to ...

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 ...

Get top local stories in Southern California delivered to you every morning. Sign up for NBC LA's News Headlines newsletter. "We hope our museums can serve as spaces of respite, offering comfort ...

In light of the ongoing wildfires, LACMA, the Natural History Museum and the La Brea Tar Pits are opening their doors to all. It’s also worth noting that the Huntington just announced that upon ...

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 ...

The Ice Age tar pits of Los Angeles are getting a fresh new design These bubbling pools of crude oil have existed for millions of years. Now, a new site plan aims to give them the attention they ...

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 ...

Gayle Anderson reports on how new research between paleontologists at the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum and orthopedic surgeon Dr. Robert Klapper at Cedars-Sinai could enhance patient care.