Scientists have been extracting huge fossils from the La Brea tar pits since 1913. Many of the animals lived during the Ice Age, as far back as 50,000 years ago. The tar pits have preserved an entire ...

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When news broke that scientists in Texas had successfully reintroduced the long-extinct dire wolf to the modern world, more people than just “Game of Thrones” fans took notice. Researchers at the ...

The La Brea Tar Pits are a group of natural asphalt pools in the Miracle Mile neighborhood of Los Angeles. In the middle of the nation’s second-largest city, millions of fossils of animals that were ...

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 ...

The La Brea Tar Pits – home to more than 3.5 million Ice Age fossils – is one of the planet’s best-kept records of what it was like in the area we now know as Southern California over the last 60,000 ...