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 ...

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. This murky sludge has trapped and made fossils out ...

The fossil is from the La Brea Tar Pits and is housed at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

Saber-toothed cats, dire wolves and coyotes had different hunting patterns according to a new study of predator fossils found in the La Brea Tar Pits. Over the last decade, DeSantis used a ...

Besides rock, fossils may be found as the result of an organism being entombed in ice, tar (like the famous La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles), or amber, in which ancient insects have been found ...

Dr. O'Keefe and Dr. Meachen used over 200 La Brea fossils in their research. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert!

Fossils found by workers digging a tunnel ... The sloth and bison species have been extinct for at least 10,000 years. La Brea Tar Pits La Brea Tar Pits The discovery was made on 16 May and ...

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 ...

then a visit to La Brea Tar Pits is sure to be the highlight of their ... And from the gooiest part of LA, more than 3.5 million fossils have been discovered. The adjoining museum houses many ...

Gayle Anderson reports on how new research between paleontologists at the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum and orthopedic surgeon Dr. Robert Klapper at Cedars-Sinai could enhance patient care.