Fossil wood serves as a vital archive for understanding Earth’s past terrestrial ecosystems. The structural features preserved in fossil wood, such as growth rings and cellular arrangements ...

Beyond the fossilized wood, the Petrified Forest National Park is filled with badlands, a type of desert terrain; ancient petroglyphs, wildlife, mesas, and buttes.

While it’s known for its petrified fossilized wood, as the name would suggest, the Petrified Forest National Park is also home to a unique geological formation called the Owl Rock Member. The area ...

Researchers studying fossilized wood on Barro Colorado Island in the Panama Canal recently discovered that an Early Miocene mangrove forest once covered the area. A volcanic flow likely buried and ...

The unearthed objects include a large, bone-like structure and several pieces resembling petrified wood. While fossilised ...

This is cool, but weird. It looks just like what I think Mars must be like,” said our son, Oliver. My husband, our three boys, and I were standing at an overlook gazing out across the Painted Desert ...

Modern Antarctica is a frozen desert, largely devoid of life except around the coasts. But this wasn't always the case. In 1833, naturalist James Eights found fossilized wood buried in the ...