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. “People come to Petrified Forest ...

Petrified Forest National Park is the only national park in the U.S. with a section of old Route 66. The park is also home to a "rainbow" forest, which has colorful tree fossils that are more than 200 ...

For such an arid, stark landscape, Petrified Forest National Park has a remarkably dissimilar past. The southern Arizona park sits in a desert and receives just about 10 inches of rain a year. Quite ...

ARIZONA (KGUN) — The Petrified Forest National Park was formed more than 200 million years ago from at least a dozen different species of trees, some of which approached nearly 200 feet in height.

After local road closure, visitors to the attraction should plan for longer travel, use updated directions and “the approved legal route.” ...

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A remarkable finding has surfaced in the colorful, fossil-rich badlands of Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park: North America's oldest known pterosaur. The newly identified species - a flying ...

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.