SACRAMENTO, Calif. – After serving nearly 30 years as a doorstop for a nuclear physicist, a hunk of petrified wood from Arizona has finally been recognized as a one-of-a-kind find. The ...

Remember being in 5th grade, and really into dinosaurs and fossils? Apparently, a few designers, collectors, and decorators have returned to the prehistoric aesthetic for cutting edge furnishings.

All Texas county seats have historic roots, but they can’t touch Glen Rose. Its roots reach back 110 million years to the forests that once covered Central Texas. Those trees are seen today in ...

An odd rock found in central Mississippi is rewriting the state’s Ice Age history — and even calling into question some long-held scientific assumptions. It’s a piece of petrified wood, but that’s not ...

In 1966 whilst staying in the opal-mining area of Andamooka,South Australia, looking for opals around the mouth of an opal mine (noodling)I found an aboriginal stone cutting implement made from ...

Whilst staying in Andamooka, South Australia, in 1966, searching for opals around the mouth of an opal mine ('noodling')I found a small stone tool made from petrified wood. The wood clearly shows ...