The fallen fossil tree after sustaining bomb damage during an air raid in 1940 The wood is petrified, meaning that it has been turned to stone. For petrified wood to form, organic material is replaced ...

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), ...

There's a similar process, for how the wood is petrified to how the fossils are fossilized as well. So this is a trail that kind of winds through a bunch of these huge petrified logs that we have ...

has yielded many fossils, including a newly discovered carnivorous reptile. Courtesy Bill Parker / NPS Petrified wood on Long Logs Trail, a 1.6 mile-hike that starts at the Rainbow Forest Museum ...

Military survey parties passing through the region in the 1850s filled their saddlebags with the petrified wood. As word of these remarkable deposits spread, fossil logs were hauled off by the ...

Despite a guard force of seven National Park Service rangers, and fences, warning signs and the threat of a $275 fine, about 12 to 14 tons of the fossil wood disappears from the Petrified Forest ...

Fossil Cycad National Monument was removed from the Park ... Visitors were pocketing small pieces of petrified wood to take home as souvenirs, which was adding up to a significant loss. Santucci knew ...