La Brea Tar Pits scientists have identified a previously unknown juniper species as Juniperus scopulorum, commonly known as ...

Scientists have successfully identified a previously unknown species to Southern California from fossilized seeds, revealing a drought-fueled dance between two species of juniper with lessons for the ...

Los Angeles (December 19, 2024)—La Brea Tar Pits scientists have identified a previously unknown juniper species to the La ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Excavators at the La Brea Tar Pits work almost every day to pull fossils out of the ground, clean, and prepare them for further research. With 4 million specimens ...

Within the sprawling metropolis of Los Angeles, not far from West Hollywood and Beverly Hills, paleontologists are hard at work sorting through one of the richest collections of ice age fossils in the ...

A New York homeowner found Mastodon fossils in his backyard. This discovery comes more than a decade (11 years) after the ...

Did you know that people can discover fossils in a major city? Head to the La Brea Tar Pits to see an active dig site in the heart of Los Angeles. The tar pits were formed thousands of years ago ...

Besides rock, fossils may be found as the result of an organism being entombed in ice, tar (like the famous La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles), or amber, in which ancient insects have been found ...

The result is an incredibly rich collection of fossils dating from the last ice age." You know about the Rancho La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles right? I am sure that you have heard of them ...

The Fossil Collecting Authority (FCA ... the vegetation for “terra firma advisory services” at a time when a tar pit was consuming its sauropod contemporaries. The Barosaurus’s legal ...

And from the gooiest part of LA, more than 3.5 million fossils have been discovered. The adjoining museum houses many of the artifacts found at the tar pits; consequently, it is home to one of the ...

Sharp discovered the dire wolf fossil as well as others displayed at Monday’s press conference at the La Brea Tar Pits Museum, which is built on the site where hundreds of prehistoric animals are ...