An ancient fossilized forest in Montana is reemerging 600 feet higher than the present-day tree line after spending the last ...

Watch a woodturner transform fossil wood and epoxy into a stunning vase. This process showcases creativity and skill, turning ...

"Our goal now is to learn more about the forest ecosystem." Since the early 19th century, scientists have excavated fossilized wood and leaves in Antarctica that date back to the time of the ...

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 ...

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 ...