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 since the Ice Age.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Next door to the La Brea Tar Pits sits the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the linchpin of the Los Angeles museum district. Since its 1965 opening, LACMA has showcased thousands of pieces ...

In light of the ongoing wildfires, LACMA, the Natural History Museum and the La Brea Tar Pits are opening their ... free admission to its “Southern California neighbors who've been displaced ...

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 ...

Read full article: Preserving the unique history of the La Brea Tar Pits LOS ANGELES - Black gooey methane bubbles pop on the surface of the Lake Pit outside the La Brea Museum in Los Angeles.

Dr. Klapper, researchers from the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum ... This report aired Jan. 19, 2025. As Southern California shifts into recovery mode after the devastating wildfires, residents ...

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 ...