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.

For visitors who are interested in seeing an ancient landscape, it’s worth the 3-hour drive from Grand Canyon National Park to visit Petrified Forest National Park. Home to fossils older than 200 ...

From a small island off the coast of Panama to the farthest reaches of space, the Smithsonian advanced our knowledge of the ...

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 ...

A new species of fossilized caecilian, a worm-like amphibian, has been found in Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park. The species was named Funcusvermis gilmorei, after the Ohio Players’ 1972 song ...

Paleontologists unveil a new reptile at Petrified Forest National Park. Elizabeth Parker and her Girl Scout troop clustered around her dad Bill Parker, then Petrified Forest’s lead paleontologist, as ...

An approximately 300 million-year-old fossil skeleton discovered at Canyonlands National Park in Utah could be the first of its kind, researchers say. The exact species and classification have yet to ...

Petrified Forest National Park may not ring a bell, even though more than half a million people visited last year, according to National Park Service data. The park is right off Interstate 40 in ...

The fossil beds' biggest attraction is a petrified stump that once supported a 200-foot-high redwood tree. Credit: Terri Cook and Lon Abbott The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in ...