The proposed project is expected to tell the story of LA’s Ice Age past, when mammoths and dire wolves roamed the landscape.

It's just the first phase of a multiyear master plan.

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

The Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County Thursday announced its largest-ever donation, which will be used to establish the Samuel Oschin Global Center for Ice Age Research. The philanthropic ...

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 ...

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

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. More than 13,000 years ago, when an ...

The La Brea Tar Pits – home to more than 3.5 million Ice Age fossils – is one of the planet’s best-kept records of what it was like in the area we now know as Southern California over the last 60,000 ...

LA PUENTE, Calif. (KABC) -- If you really want to learn about the ancient history of the L.A. area, you visit the La Brea Tar Pits and museum in the mid-city area. Now, students can learn about the ...