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 ...

Fossils can be broadly divided into body fossils and trace fossils. Body fossil – The remains of part (or all) of an actual organism. In the kits, the trilobite (2), brachiopod (3), dinosaur bone (4), ...

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 ...

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 ...

Like the name suggests, this state park is home to rare petrified ginkgo trees (Ginkgo biloba), a species of tree so ancient it's widely referred to as a "living fossil." Nowadays, ginkgos grow in ...

In 1935, two couples, the Frieles and the Peabodys, were poking around the lava cliffs in search of petrified wood when they found a large hole. Haakon Friele crawled in, expecting to find fossil ...