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Scientists have been extracting huge fossils from the La Brea tar pits since 1913. Many of the animals lived during the Ice Age, as far back as 50,000 years ago. The tar pits have preserved an entire ...

The murky sludge in the middle of modern Los Angeles trapped and made fossils out of thousands of creatures, as small as bees and as big as mammoths. More than 3.5 million fossils have been discovered ...

4:22 p.m. Oct. 28, 2022: An earlier version of this story said the dragonfly that got stuck in the asphalt was observed near Pit 23 of the La Brea Tar Pits. It was near Pit 91. On a recent fall day, a ...