Paleontologists with the Petrified Forest National Park have named and described a new reptile within the park that lived in ...

Escalante Petrified Forest State Park is pictured Oct. 24, 2024. Legend has it that "bad things" happen when people take petrified rocks out of the park.© Jason Hall, Utah State Parks ...

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 ...

Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park has done it again. The famed fossil-rich ground has provided paleontologists a remarkable finding, this time the discovery of North America's oldest known ...

Ben Kligman, a Peter Buck Postdoctoral Fellow and paleontologist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, quarrying a bonebed in Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park in 2025.

Where classic Americana meets ancient geology—Route 66 runs right through Petrified Forest National Park, offering a surreal blend of retro road trip vibes and prehistoric beauty. We explored ...

Petrified Forest National Park is 200 miles or about 3.5 hours from Phoenix. The northern entrance is at Exit 311 off I-40. The southern entrance is 19 miles east of Holbrook off U.S. 180.

Petrified Forest National Park preserves an important period in time. About 220 million years ago, an interesting time period because it's actually bracketed by two mass extinctions.

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.