Souvenir stands hawking petrified wood lined the roads outside the monument, drawing their wares from nearby parcels of private land. But visitors still succumbed to the temptation of pocketing a ...

So Petrified Forest National Park recently changed its messaging, thanking visitors for "doing the right thing," because most of them do. Unfortunately, for the few who do so BELATEDLY, the wood ...

Eventually, often decades later, conscience prompts some to return their "souvenirs" anonymously, along with a little note of apology. It's easy … GUILT can be a powerful thing.

Hike through Colorado’s petrified forest and learn about its rocky history with highlights from Walt Disney and failed wood saws at Florissant Fossil Beds.

There’s treasure buried in Washington’s desert. It’s not gold doubloons or the lost stash of infamous 1970s skyjacker D.B. Cooper. It’s petrified wood, an heirloom from ginkgo and sequoia ...

The park estimates it loses about 12 tons of petrified wood a year to theft. Somewhere along the line, the myth developed that pilfered rocks will bring bad luck to the pilferers.

For example, petrified wood from Arizona is often tinted red because of iron entering the wood along with silica. Do-it-yourself fossilization. If you want to make petrified wood yourself, ...

Here's the science behind petrified wood, including what it is, how long it takes to form and whether it's useful in the research world.

Petrified wood has a large, hard surface and a porous inside, making it ideal to soak up or separate substances or act as a catalyst in other processes, Shin said.

Byers' petrified wood had the healing curls. When the piece was cut and polished, he could also see a light-colored band dividing the pre- and post-fire growth, a mark that is also found in modern ...

Petrified wood is fossilized wood. Millions of years ago, trees were swept into a river and covered so deeply that oxygen was cut off to the trees, significantly slowing the process of decay.