Escalante Petrified Forest State Park is pictured Oct. 24, 2024. Legend has it that "bad things" happen when people take petrified rocks out of the park.© Jason Hall, Utah State Parks ...

Byers' petrified wood had the healing curls. When the piece was cut and polished, he could also see a light-colored band dividing the pre- and post-fire growth, a mark that is also found in modern ...

Petrified Forest National Park may not ring a bell, even though more than half a million people visited last year, according to National Park Service data. “People come to Petrified Forest ...

Beyond the incredible blue badlands and crystalized fossils, the Petrified Forest National Park has connections with a handful of Native American groups. A short walk to the Puerco Pueblo takes ...

The petrified man continued to be shown sporadically in Montana. Laura Steinmetz of Laurel owns a postcard, apparently dating to the early 1900s, advertising an exhibit of "A Great Wonder, a ...

The multi-hued fossils of petrified wood found in Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park are a peek into the Earth's past, showing the types of tropical trees that once dominated the landscape ...

This petrified forest, El Bosque Perificado Piedra Chamana, is the first fossil forest from the South American tropics to be studied in detail.

Other petrified forests are assemblages of log pieces, such as the Ginkgo Petrified Forest in nearby Vantage, Wash., where fallen trees from various places had been carried by mudflows to a funnel ...

For nearly three weeks now, a photograph of a spectacular specimen of petrified wood has been going viral. It appears in at least 17 discussion groups on Reddit, one of which has more than 41,000 ...

“The petrified wood your grandmother saw is still there,” park Superintendent Brad Traver said. Parker's work showed that most people do the right thing and leave the rocks alone.