At La Brea Tar Pits, Emily Lindsey digs into Ice Age life beneath LA’s surface. Paleontologist Emily Lindsey uncovers the past beneath the streets of Los Angeles at the La Brea Tar Pits — home ...

In addition to the dire wolf skull, a mosasaur skull belonging to the extinct apex predator lizard Tylosaurus proriger is ...

La Brea Tar Pits has the highest concentration of dire wolf fossils in the world, with remains from over 4,000 dire wolves found at the site. They lived in the region for at least 50,000 years ...

Dire wolves were fearsome predators that prowled around during the Late Pleistocene, between roughly 10,000 and 250,000 years ...

Local geologist Tim Elam will present "McKittrick and Maricopa Tar Seeps," a photographic presentation of Kern County's two fossil-bearing seep locations.

While llama-like camels have turned up in the La Brea Tar Pits, their lineage goes back some 40 million years, Holroyd explains, to a tiny ur-camel whose fossils have been found in Southern California ...

Officials at La Brea Tar Pits are reopening a shuttered exhibition hall and reactivating an excavation site, allowing visitors to look on as workers dig for prehistoric fossils from a pool of ...

More than 400,000 people visit the Tar Pits annually, which have yielded millions of fossils including saber-toothed cats, dire wolf and mastodon skeletons, as well as samples of plants, small ...

Surrounded by a gooey graveyard of prehistoric beasts, a small crew diligently wades through a backlog of fossil finds from a century of excavation at the La Brea Tar Pits in the heart of Los Angeles.

La Brea Tar Pits has the highest global concentration of dire wolf fossils. They lived in the region for at least 50,000 years, disappearing about 13,000 years ago.

You won't have to dig deep to find fun this Sunday with a program at the Buena Vista Museum of Natural History and Science. Local geologist Tim Elam will present "McKittrick and Maricopa Tar Seeps ...