The proposed project is expected to tell the story of LA’s Ice Age past, when mammoths and dire wolves roamed the landscape.

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Thanks to its largest-ever donation, the La Brea Tar Pits will now house the Samuel Oschin Global Center for Ice Age Research ...

The La Brea Tar Pits – home to more than 3.5 million Ice Age fossils – is one of the planet’s best-kept records of what it was like in the area we now know as Southern California over the last 60,000 ...

La Brea Tar Pits & Museum, the 13-acre museum and research site, is undergoing a $240 million facelift.

Scientists have been extracting huge fossils from the La Brea tar pits since 1913. Many of the animals lived during the Ice Age, as far back as 50,000 years ago. The tar pits have preserved an entire ...

It's just the first phase of a multiyear master plan.

While the days of dire wolves and saber-toothed cats have long since passed, a new study is emerging from the sticky tar of Los Angeles, Calif.—one that is beginning to echo today's issues. This study ...

The Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County Thursday announced its largest-ever donation, which will be used to ...

What did the ancient sloths, the colossal critters that famously roamed the area that is now known as the Miracle Mile, do on a summer evening during the Ice Age? Stream Los Angeles News for free, ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Scientists are studying a huge cache of Ice Age fossil deposits recovered near the famous La Brea Tar Pits in the heart of the nation's second-largest city. Among the finds is a ...

The La Brea Tar Pits are a group of natural asphalt pools in the Miracle Mile neighborhood of Los Angeles. In the middle of the nation’s second-largest city, millions of fossils of animals that were ...