La Brea Tar Pits & Museum, the 13-acre museum and research site, is undergoing a $240 million facelift.

The La Brea Tar Pits are a group of natural asphalt pools in the Miracle Mile neighborhood of Los Angeles. In the middle of the nation’s second-largest city, millions of fossils of animals that were ...

Two dogs who were once left for dead in a tar pit in West Odessa are finally getting their happy ending.

Thanks to its largest-ever donation, the La Brea Tar Pits will now house the Samuel Oschin Global Center for Ice Age Research.