For visitors who are interested in seeing an ancient landscape, it’s worth the 3-hour drive from Grand Canyon National Park to visit Petrified Forest National Park. Home to fossils older than 200 ...

After local road closure, visitors to the attraction should plan for longer travel, use updated directions and “the approved legal route.” ...

ARIZONA (KGUN) — The Petrified Forest National Park was formed more than 200 million years ago from at least a dozen different species of trees, some of which approached nearly 200 feet in height.

In the hills outside the small village of Sexi, Peru, a fossil forest holds secrets about South America’s past millions of years ago. When we first visited these petrified trees more than 20 years ago ...

Petrified Forest now embraces visitors rather than treating them as suspects For years – decades even – a myth has surrounded Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park: A curse would strike anyone who ...

As the long days of summer dwindle and the quaking aspen turn a brilliant yellow, many of us start to think about our fall and winter plans. In preparation, we polish our skis or pull our snowshoes ...

Deborah Woodcock has received funding from the American Philosophical Society, the National Science Foundation, and National Geographic. Herb Meyer has been supported in this project as an employee of ...

After 225 million years, you could say Opal was more than ready for her closeup, Mr. DeMille. Only her name probably shouldn't be Opal — Agatha might actually be closer to her correct geological ...

In the credit where credit is due department, the credit belongs to Patrick Fuchs. He's 41 years old and a graduate of Northern Arizona University. He lives with his girlfriend in central Phoenix, and ...

Source: Kumar Appaiah/Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0 Humans are social animals. We are strongly influenced by those around us. We adapt to what we perceive as normal behavior in an environment – the social norm ...