dire wolves, camels, and giant sloths prowled Southern California. At the site known today as the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, natural asphalt has bubbled up from below the ground’s surface ...

Saber-toothed cats, dire wolves and coyotes had different hunting patterns according to a new study of predator fossils found in the La Brea Tar Pits. Over the last decade, DeSantis used a ...

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 ...

In light of the ongoing wildfires, LACMA, the Natural History Museum and the La Brea Tar Pits are opening their ... saber-toothed cats, dire wolves, giant sloths and more that were discovered ...

Head to the La Brea Tar Pits to see an ... including fossils from dire wolves and saber-toothed cats. Anyone can visit the tar pits, learn about the discoveries made there, and watch ...

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 ...