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Within the sprawling metropolis of Los Angeles, not far from West Hollywood and Beverly Hills, paleontologists are hard at work sorting through one of the richest collections of ice age fossils in the ...

The murky sludge in the middle of modern Los Angeles trapped and made fossils out of thousands of creatures, as small as bees and as big as mammoths. More than 3.5 million fossils have been discovered ...

4:22 p.m. Oct. 28, 2022: An earlier version of this story said the dragonfly that got stuck in the asphalt was observed near Pit 23 of the La Brea Tar Pits. It was near Pit 91. On a recent fall day, a ...