While the dinosaurs are long gone, some of their footprints and the fossilized remains of the ancient trees (also known as ...

The fossil tree on the Museum's east lawn is thought to have ... The wood is petrified, meaning that it has been turned to stone. For petrified wood to form, organic material is replaced by minerals - ...

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), ...

If you are looking for a unique state park, head to central Washington for a forest of petrified trees of a species so old ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...