The San Mateo County Historical Association announced a first-of-its-kind research collaboration with the Los Angeles County ...

LOS ANGELES - Dinosaurs, fossils and even a human body have been dredged up from the murky depths of La Brea Tar Pits. On Thursday, Los Angeles police plumbed the oily waters hoping that some ...

But at La Brea, tens of thousands of animals were preserved in tar pits over a relatively short period - the past 50,000 years. More than a million fossil bones have been recovered so far.

Next door to the La Brea Tar Pits sits the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, ... Situated on Wilshire Boulevard in west LA, LACMA is open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Mondays, ...

La Brea Tar Pits and Museum: Museum hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily, except closed on the first Tuesday of the month and national holidays. Admission $18; ...

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, ...