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.

Discover the Painted Desert in Arizona. Learn about its colourful Chinle Formation, Petrified Forest National Park, maps, ...

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 ...

Archaeologists in Northern Arizona have uncovered a 1,300-year-old village inside Petrified Forest National Park. It’s the second ancient village discovered in as many years at the park. Archaeologist ...

Volunteers working on fossils from a Petrified Forest National Park bonebed in the FossiLab on view to museumgoers in the David H. Koch Hall of Fossils – Deep Time at the Smithsonian’s National Museum ...

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 ...

The park contains deposits of colorful petrified wood that are around 225 million years old. Sadly, Petrified Forest has been struggling with theft, as tourists are tempted to illegally take home ...

Arizona's 3 national parks: Grand Canyon, Saguaro and Petrified Forest national parks Arizona's national parks offer majestic views, a forest of towering saguaros and a look back into time with a ...

An underrated National Monument in the state of Arizona may become America's latest National Park, but there's both pros and ...