While the dinosaurs are long gone, some of their footprints and the fossilized remains of the ancient trees (also known as ...

Whilst staying in Andamooka, South Australia, in 1966, searching for opals around the mouth of an opal mine ('noodling')I found a small stone tool made from petrified wood. The wood clearly shows ...

The wood is petrified, meaning that it has been turned to stone. For petrified wood to form, organic material is replaced by minerals - in this case iron and calcium carbonates - while the plant ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Petrified wood is one of the most sought-after materials in the world for both its aesthetic value and its scientific value. But in Indonesia, miners who risk their ...

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 ...

In every state, urban legends have been scaring residents for years.

Petrified Forest is best known for its ancient trees that have crystallized over 225 million years into rainbow colors. The park also features fossils from huge 18-foot crocodile-like creatures known ...

Looking to plan the best Petrified Forest National Park itinerary in a day? In this article, I want to share with you the ...

Standard deviation (SD) measures the amount of variability, or dispersion, from the individual data values to the mean. SD is a frequently cited statistic in many applications from math and ...

One estimate suggests the ancient forest could be 40,000-years-old, meaning it was towering above ... The sand had washed away, revealing rock and petrified wood for 40 metres.