Most people know of dire wolves from “Game of Thrones.” The species isn’t actually fictional, but it has been extinct for thousands of years. Now, scientists say they’ve brought the dire ...

The Hollywood sign, the Santa Monica Pier, the La Brea Tar Pits – some things are unmistakably L.A. But, as L.A. Times columnist Patt Morrison writes, it could be time to say goodbye to one ...

Bones from thousands of dire wolves spanning thousands of years have been found in the tar pits. Dire wolves diverged from other canids, including golden jackals (pictured) around five million ...

A study of extinct dire wolf DNA reveals surprises, including that the carnivores, made famous as fictional pets in Game of Thrones, weren't closely related to wolves. Dire wolves, with reddish ...

More than 4,000 wolves were pulled from the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles alone. They are understood to have been hunters of the many large mammals that populated the Americas before the arrival ...

While there, she conducted research at the nearby La Brea Tar Pits and became familiar with Late Pleistocene fauna. When she joined Des Moines University, as a professor of anatomy, she began ...

The scavenger hunt takes the teams to the comic book store, the planetarium, the La Brea Tar Pits, and the Caltech geology lab. As the game progresses, Sheldon and Penny have their classic comedy ...

Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun / Paradox Interactive So instead of a militaristic nation of Korean conquerors, I spend the next few years dipping around the map, in and out of production and trade ...

While that might not sound like much on paper, it could be the lynchpin that turns a unit wipe into a stubborn tar pit. On the slightly more aggressive side, the second spell gives your chosen target ...

It also complements famous sabertooth finds from other regions, such as the La Brea Tar Pits in California, allowing for comparative studies across geographically distinct populations of the same ...