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

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

After the storms from 2024 pummeled the Gaviota Coast, fossil enthusiast and geologist Chris Driesbach decided to take a trip ...

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 ...

The millions-year-old specimen discovered by a fossil enthusiast on the Gaviota Coast may be a never-before-found genus or ...

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

This New Mexico off-the-beaten-path wilderness offers a serene escape that looks like the Utah hoodoos and the Dakota ...

The Week of the Young Child, an annual, national event, which celebrates early learning, young children, their parents 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 ...

For many travelers making the pilgrimage along what remains of the Mother Road, the Totem Pole Trading Post represents an essential stop – not just to collect souvenirs but to experience a business ...

Nestled along the storied Route 66 in Rolla, Missouri stands such a marvel – the Totem Pole Trading Post, a glorious hodgepodge of Americana that’s been collecting curious odds and ends since Franklin ...

such as fossilized remains of terrestrial vegetation known as petrified wood or geodes, a rock with its cavity lined with crystals or other minerals. For a rockhound like Mark Moorehead, president of ...