Military survey parties passing through the region in the 1850s filled their saddlebags with the petrified wood. As word of these remarkable deposits spread, fossil logs were hauled off by the ...

The fallen fossil tree after sustaining bomb damage during an air raid in 1940 The wood is petrified, meaning that it has been turned to stone. For petrified wood to form, organic material is replaced ...

Body fossil – The remains of part (or all) of an actual organism. In the kits, the trilobite (2), brachiopod (3), dinosaur bone (4), horse tooth (5), petrified wood (6), graptolite (7), fish (8), ...

There's a similar process, for how the wood is petrified to how the fossils are fossilized as well. So this is a trail that kind of winds through a bunch of these huge petrified logs that we have ...

Chris Driesbach, left, and a volunteer stand over a whale fossil found along the Gaviota Coast. Driesbach, a geologist and ...

While it’s easy to spend just an hour driving the 28-mile (40-kilometer) road through Petrified Forest National Park in ...

Fossil Cycad National Monument was removed from the Park ... Visitors were pocketing small pieces of petrified wood to take home as souvenirs, which was adding up to a significant loss. Santucci knew ...

Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona is a breathtaking landscape filled with colorful badlands, ancient fossils, and ...

fossil enthusiast and geologist Chris Driesbach decided to take a trip to the beach to look for petrified wood and small rocks. Instead, he found something far bigger and unexpected.

fossil enthusiast and geologist Chris Driesbach decided to take a trip to the beach to look for petrified wood and small rocks. Instead, he found something far bigger and unexpected.