But only a few of them formed in the way that La Brea did, capturing the rich, diverse nature of the landscape like a time capsule. About two and a half years ago, researchers at La Brea began ...

The Los Angeles County Natural History Museum celebrated its 100th anniversary of excavation at the La Brea Tar Pits Monday with a guided tour by the dig site’s museum curator and free admission ...

The famous fiberglass mammoths at the La Brea tar pits have kept watch over Wilshire ... 25-foot-long, fiberglass creature ... in the Pleistocene epoch of 14,000 to 40,000 years ago. Some became ...

100 years ago this week, the County of Los Angeles began digging up, researching and putting on display the fossils found inside the black, bubbly lake we now know as the La Brea Tar Pits.

But the unique nature of the La Brea Tar Pits is that they preserved an entire ecosystem between 10,000 to 50,000 years ago, containing massive mammoth tusks and giant sloth bones alongside acorns ...

Ice Age mammals lived 10,000-40,000 years ago in Los Angeles, while dinosaurs lived over 65 million years ago. There are no dinosaurs at the Tar Pits as LA was under ocean during the age of Dinosaurs.

And if you are wondering why no place in the city can lay claim to ruling the time scale like the La Brea Tar Pits, ... 40,000 to 10,000 years ago." ... long. Our beloved pits have a way ...

The La Brea Tar Pits is getting revamped for the first time since the museum opened 40 years ago. Support for LAist comes from. Become a sponsor. LAist logo.

Find out why La Brea Tar Pits is one of TIME for Kids’ coolest places in the world for 2019. ... The tar pits were formed thousands of years ago, from natural sticky asphalt.

Tell me more about the Tar Pits’ rebranding effort. The climate scientists and paleoecologists at the La Brea Tar Pits told me that what we’re experiencing right now is part of a long-term trend.