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.

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 ...

Finds in Petrified Forest National Park date between 200 A.D. and 700 A.D. Archaeologists surveying land acquired by Petrified Forest National Park have found traces of two ancient villages. The flags ...

Petrified Forest National Park announced a major restoration of its northern visitor center and park headquarters this week. Although construction is not scheduled to begin until September, the ...

PHOENIX — Fossils from the Petrified Forest National Park, in northern Arizona, revealed a new reptile species that thrived during the Triassic Period. Paleontologists and partners with the ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Smithsonian-led team of researchers have discovered North America's oldest known pterosaur, the winged reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs and were the first vertebrates to evolve powered flight ...