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

Anyone can visit the tar pits, learn about the discoveries made there, and watch paleontologists at work finding and studying fossils. —Karena Phan ...

But when a murder enquiry began, he faced a new and quite dangerous challenge: retrieving evidence from the La Brea tar pits. These are pre-historic pits of bubbling tar right in the heart 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 ...

The tar pit, which looks like a small lake ... Just getting my kids into the museum was a challenge because they made new friends on the hill beside the museum and just wanted to run up and ...

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 ...