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.

PHOENIX — A Triassic reptile species discovered at Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona was named after a former park superintendent and his wife in the peer-reviewed scientific article that ...

PHOENIX — Petrified Forest National Park announced the sightings of Yellow-billed Cuckoo, a threatened bird along the Puerco River within the park. One individual bird was heard on July 15 and another ...

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.

In an earlier Ask a Ranger column, I wrote about the topic of geoheritage sites — places of special cultural, scientific, educational or aesthetic value — and what makes those places important to ...

Of Arizona’s three national parks, Petrified Forest is the least visited. That’s a shame, since it is absolutely stunning. Though named after the fields of petrified wood, that’s only one reason to ...

Arizona's 3 national parks: Grand Canyon, Saguaro and Petrified Forest national parks Arizona's national parks offer majestic views, a forest of towering saguaros and a look back into time with a ...

HOLBROOK, AZ (3TV/CBS 5)-- The National Park Service and other agencies are investigating after two Petrified Forest National Park employees were shot at while driving in the park on Tuesday morning ...

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 ...