Research from La Brea Tar Pits and Lake Elsinore has unearthed evidence of a dramatic event 13,000 years ago that transformed Southern California’s vegetation and caused the disappearance of iconic ...

Roughly 13,000 years ago, Ice Age animals such as saber-toothed cats, the American lion and mammoths started going extinct in the Los Angeles basin, about a thousand years before their extinction in ...

Researchers say atmospheric blasts could explain mass extinctions and the sudden cooling of the climate at the beginning of ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

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Associate Curator, La Brea Tar Pits; Adjunct Faculty, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles Emily Lindsey receives funding from the National ...

In recent years, Californians have had to deal with some deadly and destructive wildfires. But in fact, this part of the western United States has been shaped by fire for millennia. In this episode of ...

With wildfires getting worse – parts of the United States, scientists say, are experiencing wildfires three times as often and four times as big as they were 20 years ago – records of the distant past ...

The dire wolf was basically the ice age’s ultimate predator, and scientists are learning loads of cool stuff about how animals survive massive climate changes by studying these ancient beasts. These ...

Aug. 18 (UPI) --Over the past decade, deadly wildfires have become increasingly common because of both human-caused climate change and disruptive land management practices. Southern California, where ...