La Brea Tar Pits has the highest global concentration of dire wolf fossils. They lived in the region for at least 50,000 ...

The private company Colossal Biosciences claims to have resurrected dire wolves through genetic editing. The resulting trio, ...

“The big animals have pretty broad climate tolerances ... barely been studied but would probably be as rich as the La Brea ...

Head to the La Brea Tar Pits to see an active dig site in the heart of Los Angeles. The tar pits were formed thousands of years ago, from natural sticky asphalt. The asphalt trapped animals ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Excavators at the La Brea Tar Pits work almost every day to pull fossils out of the ground, clean, and prepare them for further research. With 4 million specimens ...

Around 300 workers at the iconic SoCal institutions will join AFSCME as part of a voluntary recognition agreement with ...

When news broke that scientists in Texas had successfully reintroduced the long-extinct dire wolf to the modern world, more ...

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 ...

Researchers at the Natural History Museum’s La Brea Tar Pits, where a wall is decorated ... she said she’s not really hung up on what the animals are called beyond their names, inspired ...

Researchers at the Natural History Museum's La Brea Tar Pits, where a wall is decorated with hundreds of dire wolf skulls, had questions.

This undated photo provided by Colossal Biosciences shows a young wolf that was genetically engineered with similarities to the extinct dire wolf. (Colossal Biosciences via Associated Press) ...