UC Riverside scientists say bacteria in natural asphalt are munching on the petroleum and burping up methane gas in Hancock Park. Tar pits' secret bubbles up - Los Angeles Times ...

They could search for food on the water that sometimes collects on the tar pits, but the asphalt is a far better hunting ground. More prey and less competition. This larva moves in on a dead cricket.

Trapped in soil that was mixed with heavy oil nearly 28,000 years ago, the bacteria are uniquely adapted to the pits' oil and natural asphalt, and contain three previously undiscovered classes of ...

Residents who live near a Joliet-area quarry say they are afraid that asphalt being dumped in the watery pit could adversely affect their water supply and create health problems. Since September, m… ...

Tiny habitats hidden within oil could expand the potential for life in the universe, researchers say. Scientists have discovered microbes living in microscopic droplets of water inside a giant ...

Across millennia, the tar pits captured over ten thousand mammals, creating a remarkably detailed record of the area’s natural history. But not every creature present in the asphalt is stuck in ...

The asphalt seeps have been there for thousands of years, stemming from a nearby underground large petroleum reservoir called Salt Lake Oil Field. Posted 3:38 p.m. Oct 11, 2019 — Updated 3:38 p ...

A contractor whose road paving error causing asphalt to run into Lake Desolation last week ...

With a dental pick in hand, Karin Rice delicately scraped off a clump of asphalt from a pelvic bone belonging to a horse that roamed Los Angeles tens of thousands of years ago.