In Defense of Plants' Matt Candeias talks with paleobotanist Dr. Regan Dunn of the La Brea Tar Pits about how climate change disrupts plant communities and what that means for species extinctions.

Discover some of the Ice Age titans of Talara, the asphaltic site in Northwest Peru

Check out this New Teaser for "Peru's Tar Pits" a short documentary production from La Brea Tar Pits Narrated by Kevin Seymour, Royal Ontario Museum Research Associate Filmed and Edited by Daniel…

The first new extinct toad species and the first description of the Mexican burrowing toad at the Tar Pits help us understand the impacts of climate change on species distributions, past, present,…

Published in the journal Science, a new study by NHM researchers shows that Mexico acted as a biodiversity "holding pen" for 10 million years ahead of the Great American Biotic Interchange that…

Join Rextooth Studios’ Ted Rechlin, award-winning graphic-novelist, animator, film-maker and science communicator, as he goes head to head with museum experts to battle it out and crown the toughest…

Discover the changing tree line of L.A. through the lens of La Brea Tar Pits fossils—and the evolving presence of shade in our warming climate

A gateway back to the Ice Age, right in the heart of L.A. Witness science in action at La Brea Tar Pits.