Researchers have long known that there are two different species of juniper found at the Tar Pits—the large-seeded J.

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

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 ...

A smelly tar pit in the middle of LA? 3.5 million fossils from the Ice Age? A Pleistocene garden? If all that ignites your ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits on April 8, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty ...

Fossils found by workers digging a tunnel for ... The sloth and bison species have been extinct for at least 10,000 years. La Brea Tar Pits La Brea Tar Pits The discovery was made on 16 May ...

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 ...