On Friday, the La Brea Tar Pits were recognized as one of ... Nearly all are ensconced in forests, deserts or protected areas; some remain well-preserved simply because they are far from modern ...

La Brea contains over 100 pits ... Over 50,000 years, the landscape changed from a pine forest to woodland to a sage scrub habitat. From an environment full of trees, it became more open with ...

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

The students were transported to area hospitals in fair condition, LAFD said. Eight teenagers got "acutely ill" and were transported to the hospital after ingesting marijuana edibles during a ...

More than 3,000 fossilized cats have been pulled from the acrid ooze of the La Brea tar pits in California, and researchers studying them have long pictured Smilodon as a lion-like hunter ...

A methane gas bubble breaks the surface of a pool of asphalt at the La Brea Tar Pits in Hancock Park. The tar pits were recognized as one of the world's First 100 IUGS Geological Heritage Sites ...