Washington is home to one of the world’s most impressive petrified forests, where ancient fossilized trees and rugged desert ...

LAMAR • This is a story about time. The time we get and what we do with it. Our brief time amid deep time that surrounds us — ancient time represented by petrified wood, one might say. “There’s ...

Petrified wood is an incredible naturally occurring phenomenon that can be found all over the world, including in the United States. But if you're not familiar with the ancient work of natural art, it ...

In the U.S., many states have an official state fossil, or even a designated state dinosaur. Some states recognize an official dinosaur in celebration of the specific region's paleontology, and others ...

To the east of Holbrook, just off the I-40, is one of the most otherworldly parks to visit in Arizona. Petrified Forest ...

This fossil hunt revealed lignitized wood dating back to the age of dinosaurs. Inside the fossilized wood were calcite ...

Researchers studying fossilized wood on Barro Colorado Island in the Panama Canal recently discovered that an Early Miocene mangrove forest once covered the area. A volcanic flow likely buried and ...

Blue-stain fungi constitute a distinctive group of wood-colonizing fungi which lack the ability to decompose wood lignocellulose, yet are capable of causing significant wood discoloration (Fig. 1).