some of their footprints and the fossilized remains of the ancient trees (also known as petrified wood) have been preserved.

While most come to see one of the world's largest concentrations of brilliantly colored petrified wood, many leave having glimpsed something more. The current 346 square miles of Petrified Forest ...

Watch a woodturner transform fossil wood and epoxy into a stunning vase. This process showcases creativity and skill, turning simple materials into a beautifully crafted decorative piece.

Fossils can be broadly divided into body fossils and trace fossils. Body fossil – The remains of part (or all) of an actual organism. In the kits, the trilobite (2), brachiopod (3), dinosaur bone (4), ...

Land animals and plants usually decomposed or were eaten, and mainly the hard parts -- teeth, bones, shells, or wood -- were preserved. Fossils can be formed in several ways. Buried bone and shell ...

Enclosed were pieces of petrified wood that she and her father had pilfered from the park’s Crystal Forest. After taking the rocks, Tracie wrote, they visited her sister in California, where her ...