and giant sloths prowled Southern California. At the site known today as the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, natural asphalt has bubbled up from below the ground’s surface since the Ice Age.

If your kids go crazy for dinosaurs – and really, what kid doesn't? – then a visit to La Brea Tar Pits is sure to be the highlight of their trip. Although the pits look like the set of a ...

Fueled by a remarkably destructive windstorm, nearly 50,000 acres of Los Angeles County have been burned by multiple fires, most notably the catastrophic Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades and ...

Get top local stories in Southern California delivered to you every morning. Sign up for NBC LA's News Headlines newsletter. "We hope our museums can serve as spaces of respite, offering comfort ...

Paleoecologist Emily Lindsey on the wildfires that led to mass extinction during California’s Ice Age. Listen to The ...

In light of the ongoing wildfires, LACMA, the Natural History Museum and the La Brea Tar Pits are opening their ... free admission to its “Southern California neighbors who've been displaced ...

Next door to the La Brea Tar Pits sits the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the linchpin of the Los Angeles museum district. Since its 1965 opening, LACMA has showcased thousands of pieces ...