“What made mountain lions successful ... question should give you something to ponder the next time you pass the Tar Pits’ iconic (and heartrending) mammoth statues off Wilshire Boulevard.

that also made the IUGS list. “It’s absolutely amazing,” Frey said of the Tar Pits. “I don’t know any other site where it is like that.” The La Brea Tar Pits, formed some 38,000 years ...

“Tar Pits” is a misnomer, as the pits are not made from tar but asphalt, “the lowest grade of crude oil,” according to the La Brea Tar Pits website. While the ongoing excavations at the ...

The murky sludge in the middle of modern Los Angeles trapped and made fossils out of thousands ... million fossils have been discovered in the tar pits. The tar pits have yielded one of the ...

The dangers of "tar": The tar pits are actually made of asphalt, which is derived from crude oil, as opposed to tar, which is made from organic materials. Animals that get stuck in asphalt can ...

The La Brea tar pits captured dire wolves ... A new paper says that, at least in this region of Southern California, human-made fires may be to blame. About 13,000 years ago, there was a huge ...

The formal announcement will be made at its meeting next month in Spain ... of international scientific relevance." La Brea Tar Pits is reportedly the richest Pleistocene ("Ice Age") fossil ...

Thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California show no signs of mammals and birds evolving in response to shifting temperatures over the past 50,000 years ...

Seven made it to the bird rescue center ... When the birds were initially rescued from the tar pit and brought in, she said, “they were stuck to themselves and to the boxes they were in.” ...

At the site known today as the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, natural asphalt has bubbled up from below the ground’s surface ...