La Brea Tar Pits & Museum, the 13-acre museum and research site, is undergoing a $240 million facelift.

The La Brea Tar Pits are a group of natural asphalt pools in the Miracle Mile neighborhood of Los Angeles. In the middle of the nation’s second-largest city, millions of fossils of animals that were ...

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