Every so often, a discovery comes along that changes our understanding of the distant past. In the vast landscapes of the ...

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 ...

Besides rock, fossils may be found as the result of an organism being entombed in ice, tar (like the famous La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles), or amber, in which ancient insects have been found ...

The fossil is from the La Brea Tar Pits and is housed at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

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 ...

and so are bogs and tar pits which lack many micro-organisms which could further disintegrate the remains. Although some wet environments, especially anaerobic ones, offer fossil-friendly ...

The Miracle Mile Residential Association (MMRA) has been in lock step with the Audubon Society in opposition of the new ...

And from the gooiest part of LA, more than 3.5 million fossils have been discovered. The adjoining museum houses many of the artifacts found at the tar pits; consequently, it is home to one of the ...

Uglow’s rhythmic text traverses thousands of years as it tells the prehistoric tale of many fossils coming to exist in Los Angeles’s La Brea Tar Pits. At book’s opening, an unsuspecting ...