If you've never been to the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, it's well worth the visit. Here's what you need to know to plan ...

There’s a gooey time capsule in the heart of Los Angeles, left over from an era when saber-toothed cats, dire wolves, camels, ...

Tar pits form as petroleum seeps to the surface through fissures in the Earth’s crust, leaving viscous asphalt pools. To make Tar Pits Film, Jennifer West threw a strip of film into the La Brea ...

Buried bone and shell contain tiny air spaces into which water can seep, depositing minerals ... being entombed in ice, tar (like the famous La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles), or amber, in which ...