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

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 ...

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

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

Despite a guard force of seven National Park Service rangers, and fences, warning signs and the threat of a $275 fine, about 12 to 14 tons of the fossil wood disappears from the Petrified Forest ...

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 ...