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

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

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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 ...

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

A 40,000-year-old mammoth named Zed is helping scientists unlock secrets of Ice Age life, extinction and evolution, as Los Angeles prepares to showcase him in a historic museum transformation.

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 ...

LA PUENTE, Calif. (KABC) -- If you really want to learn about the ancient history of the L.A. area, you visit the La Brea Tar Pits and museum in the mid-city area. Now, students can learn about the ...

We're often advised to "kick back," "chill out," or "slow down" when summer begins, as well as other reminders to savor the year's most golden stretch in an easygoing, unstressed sort of way. Stream ...

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