The federal government is gaining control over an even larger expanse of rainbow-colored petrified wood, fossils from the dawning age of dinosaurs and petroglyphs left by American Indian tribes who ...

Every year, millions of tourists flock to Arizona's most famous national park: The Grand Canyon. Yet travel experts claim there is a lesser-known, but no less stunning, park in the copper state that ...

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 ...

Petrified wood is a fossil that is the remains of ancient vegetation, most commonly ancient trees. It occurs by a natural action known as permineralization, a process in which mineral deposits take on ...