Petrified Forest National Park is a hidden gem in the Arizona desert. It’s famous for its colorful petrified wood, stunning badlands, and rich history. Visitors can explore ancient fossils, Native ...

Locked within the stones and fossils of Petrified Forest National Park lies a record of life, death, and resilience during one of Earth's most extreme periods of environmental change. What secrets do ...

This fossil hunt revealed lignitized wood dating back to the age of dinosaurs. Inside the fossilized wood were calcite crystals formed over millions of years. Finds like this are rare and highly ...

Modern Antarctica is a frozen desert, largely devoid of life except around the coasts. But this wasn't always the case. In 1833, naturalist James Eights found fossilized wood buried in the continent's ...

An artist’s reconstruction of the fossilized landscape, plants and animals found preserved in a remote bonebed in Petrified Forest National Parkin Arizona (Brian Engh, courtesy of the Smithsonian’s ...

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).

In a paper published in National Science Review, a Chinese team of scientists highlights the discovery of well-preserved blue-stain fungal hyphae within a Jurassic fossil wood from northeastern China, ...

An artist’s reconstruction of the fossilized landscape, plants and animals found preserved in a remote bonebed in Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. Illustration by Brian Engh. Note to editors ...