But when a murder enquiry began, he faced a new and quite dangerous challenge: retrieving evidence from the La Brea tar pits. These are pre-historic pits of bubbling tar right in the heart of the ...

Although the pits look like the set of a cheesy PG movie, hot tar has been bubbling from the earth at this spot along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile for about 50,000 years. And from the gooiest ...

The tar pit, which looks like a small lake, is actually natural asphalt or bitumen. It's bubbling up from the ground in certain spots, creating black, sticky pools. Once inside the museum ...