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

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), ...

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 ...

The Petrified Forest National Park highlights the prehistoric aspects of the Grand Canyon State. Visitors can see dinosaur ...

An ancient fossilized forest in Montana is reemerging ... samples and analyzed cross-sections of newly exposed fossilized wood for radiocarbon dating. Their findings indicate the plateau’s ...

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 ...

In 1966 whilst staying in the opal-mining area of Andamooka,South Australia, looking for opals around the mouth of an opal mine (noodling)I found an aboriginal stone cutting implement made from ...

Visitors can see dinosaur fossils and petrified wood while basking in the surreal landscape of the Painted Desert. World Atlas, a geography website, compiled a list of the best Grand Canyon State ...