The La Brea Tar Pits are full of mysteries. Here are three of the most puzzling The lake pit in front of the La Brea Tar Pits Museum is left over from asphalt mining that took place in the ...

Emily Lindsey, assistant curator at the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, told Mental Floss in 2017 that this has led to some ...

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.

The La Brea Tar Pits’ makeover team is adding new members. Lori Bettison-Varga, the president and director of the National History Museums of Los Angeles County, announced today that the La Brea ...

There's more than meets the eye — and nose — at the La Brea Tar Pits. For those who don't know, the La Brea Tar Pits are an internationally recognized geological heritage site, located in the ...

The La Brea Tar Pits is the only active urban fossil dig site and home to the largest collection of Ice Age fossils in the world. Since its opening in 1977, the Tar Pits museum and site has hosted ...

Dr. Hugo Schmökel works in the collections area at the La Brea Tar Pits on Aug. 17, 2023, in Los Angeles, Calif. The museum and park holds the world’s largest collection of Pleistocene f… ...

Staffers at L.A.’s Natural History Museum and La Brea Tar Pits Form Union. Around 300 workers at the iconic SoCal institutions will join AFSCME as part of a voluntary recognition agreement with ...

La Brea Tar Pits has been selected as one of the most important geological heritage sites by the International Union of Geological Sciences, an organization representing over 1 million ...

Emily Lindsey, assistant curator at the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, told Mental Floss in 2017 that this has led to some confusion on the part of visitors, who “think sometimes the excavators ...

NPR's Renee Montagne pays a visit to the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, where the a paleontological dig is taking place. The pits once supplied Native Americans and local settlers with sealant ...