Archaeologists who discovered a cave used by early humans some 60,000 years ago have made an incredible discovery, giving ...

But based on a new finding — the first ever evidence of Neanderthals' ability to extract tar from plants — maybe we should, instead, use it as a stand-in for technological innovation. Researchers ...

Findings from a cave in Gibraltar suggests Neandertals may have used complex fire structures to obtain adhesives from plants.

The sticky tar helped Neanderthals produce glue to make weapons and tools. The so-called factory — a carefully designed hearth — enabled the Neanderthals to precisely control the fire and manage the ...

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 ...

Did you know that people can discover fossils in a major city? 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 ...

The Barosaurus had exchanged the vegetation for “terra firma advisory services” at a time when a tar pit was consuming its sauropod contemporaries. The Barosaurus’s legal team had been due ...

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 ...