Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The lake pit in front of the La Brea Tar Pits Museum is left over from asphalt mining that took place in the nineteenth century.

An overhaul of the La Brea Tar Pits and Page Museum is officially moving forward, marking one of Los Angeles’ most significant cultural redevelopment projects in years. The Natural History Museums of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A methane gas bubble breaks the surface of a pool of asphalt at the La Brea Tar Pits in Hancock Park. The tar pits were recognized ...

The George C. Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits will close to the public July 6 for about two years, marking the start of a sweeping renovation project of the 13-acre Tar Pits campus — the first ...

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 ...

Two years, give or take, is a considerable time to wait, but let's be honest: This relatively brief span of time is nothing compared to how long some of the dire wolf, saber-toothed cat, and ...

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 Tar ...

The La Brea Tar Pits & Museum is finally getting a star attraction: Zed, a roughly 40,000-year-old Columbian mammoth. Zed was discovered two decades ago when the Los Angeles County Museum of Art began ...

The lake pit in front of the La Brea Tar Pits Museum is left over from asphalt mining that took place in the nineteenth century. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) Last year, we began inviting readers ...

Last year, we began inviting readers to send us their pressing questions about Los Angeles and California. Every few weeks, we put the questions to a vote, asking readers to decide which question they ...