Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Reconstruction of Spea labreae, sp. nov. (dark spadefoots, center and right) in La Brea Tar Pits compared with Spea hammondii ...

Explore the fascinating history of the Ice Age, from ancient landscapes and extinct animals to the major changes that shaped ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration credited to Arturo Davalos that reconstructs a Late Pleistocene wetland at Rancho La Brea. (CREDIT: Arturo Davalos ...

(CNN) — In the heart of urban Los Angeles lie the La Brea Tar Pits, a group of natural asphalt seeps made famous by the millions of ice age fossils preserved within the bubbling, dark pools of goo.

A toad smaller than a human palm has rewritten part of Los Angeles’ Ice Age story. Fossils from La Brea Tar Pits belong to a previously unknown species, revealing how much the region’s climate and ...