What began as routine asphalt excavation in Los Angeles more than a century ago would eventually reveal one of the most extraordinary fossil archives in the world. Although fossils had been noticed ...

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Environmental scientists at UC Riverside have discovered that the Rancho La Brea tar pits in downtown Los Angeles, Calif., house hundreds of new species of bacteria with unusual properties, allowing ...

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 ...

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You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Tens of thousands of years ago, dire wolves hunted ground sloths and camels while herds of gigantic ...

The petroleum fly and their larvae thrive in the natural asphalt at the La Brea Tar Pits. In the sticky oil seeps known as the La Brea Tar Pits, the tiny petroleum fly and their larvae thrive in the ...