Emily Lindsey, assistant curator at the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum ... be quick to clear up another misconception: They don’t dig up dinosaurs. (Though, technically, they do.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Active fossil excavation site, Pit 91, located at the Rancho La Brea tar pits, Los Angeles, Calif. Pit 91 has yielded thousands of animal fossils. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

Rainer Meckenstock of Helmholtz Zentrum München’s Institute of Groundwater Ecology in Germany and his colleagues collected undisturbed samples of oil from Pitch Lake, the world’s largest natural ...

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Read full article: Preserving the unique history of the La Brea Tar Pits LOS ANGELES - Black gooey methane bubbles pop on the surface of the Lake Pit outside the La Brea Museum in Los Angeles.

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 ...

The Ice Age tar pits of Los Angeles are getting a fresh new design These bubbling pools of crude oil have existed for millions of years. Now, a new site plan aims to give them the attention they ...

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.