Young Fossil Hunter Found a Bit of Wood, Examination Revealed It to Be a 700,000-Year-Old Bear Tooth Around three years ago, ...

some of their footprints and the fossilized remains of the ancient trees (also known as petrified wood) have been preserved.

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 ...

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), ...

An ancient fossilized forest in Montana is reemerging ... samples and analyzed cross-sections of newly exposed fossilized wood for radiocarbon dating. Their findings indicate the plateau’s ...

Land animals and plants usually decomposed or were eaten, and mainly the hard parts -- teeth, bones, shells, or wood -- were preserved. Fossils can be formed in several ways. Buried bone and shell ...

Enclosed were pieces of petrified wood that she and her father had pilfered from the park’s Crystal Forest. After taking the rocks, Tracie wrote, they visited her sister in California, where her ...