Imagine stepping into a silent forest where trees have stood for millions of years—yet not a single leaf rustles in the wind.

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), ...

Today, visitors to Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park not only have the chance to see fossilized ginkgo wood but over 50 petrified tree species. Although the trees no longer stand proud or shed ...

Located in the south are the major concentrations of the famous colorful petrified wood; in the north rise the colorful banded badlands of the Painted Desert. Giant fossilized logs, many of them ...

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 ...

has yielded many fossils, including a newly discovered carnivorous reptile. Courtesy Bill Parker / NPS Petrified wood on Long Logs Trail, a 1.6 mile-hike that starts at the Rainbow Forest Museum ...

The practice dates back at least to 1935, when a piece of fossilized wood was returned to Petrified Forest all the way from India. Potsherds are the most commonly returned items, but others range from ...

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 ...