Petrified Forest National Park is easy to explore, learn, and appreciate one of the Southwest’s unique landscapes.

The most famous petrified forest in the U.S. is out west in Arizona, but Mississippi has its own forest full of petrified ...

If you drive just a few hours northeast from Phoenix to the Petrified Forest, it almost feels like you stepped onto a different planet — albeit a colorful one full of subtle scenic and scientific ...

Tucked away in a remote bonebed in Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park laid hundreds of fossils, including a fragile jawbone belonging to one of the oldest-known flying reptiles: the pterosaur.

In an earlier Ask a Ranger column, I wrote about the topic of geoheritage sites — places of special cultural, scientific, educational or aesthetic value — and what makes those places important to ...

Researchers found North America’s oldest known pterosaur. Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park has done it again. The famed fossil-rich ground has provided paleontologists a remarkable finding, ...

PHOENIX — Fossils from the Petrified Forest National Park, in northern Arizona, revealed a new reptile species that thrived during the Triassic Period. Paleontologists and partners with the ...