Jessica Portner
Stories By This Author
Pick Your Summer! Chill or Fierce? Sloth or Saber-toothed?
Are you a saber-toothed cat person? Or do you prefer to chill with giant sloths? Plan a trip to the Tar Pits to learn all about these polar opposite Ice Age mammals.
A New Landscape
The Community Plaza of NHM Commons is a gathering place that has been imagined with pride and purpose.
The Dire Wolf: An Ice Age Angeleno
What’s the backstory of dire wolves, the most-found mammal at La Brea Tar Pits? Here are five juicy morsels about this extinct species that once howled through the Ice Age.