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

For visitors who are interested in seeing an ancient landscape, it’s worth the 3-hour drive from Grand Canyon National Park to visit Petrified Forest National Park. Home to fossils older than 200 ...

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 the hills outside the small village of Sexi, Peru, a fossil forest holds secrets about South America’s past millions of years ago. When we first visited these petrified trees more than 20 years ago ...

More than 11 million visitors visit the 22 national parks in Arizona each year, according to the National Park Service. However, visitors and environmental factors can pose threats to the parks, ...

As the long days of summer dwindle and the quaking aspen turn a brilliant yellow, many of us start to think about our fall and winter plans. In preparation, we polish our skis or pull our snowshoes ...

Deborah Woodcock has received funding from the American Philosophical Society, the National Science Foundation, and National Geographic. Herb Meyer has been supported in this project as an employee of ...

In the credit where credit is due department, the credit belongs to Patrick Fuchs. He's 41 years old and a graduate of Northern Arizona University. He lives with his girlfriend in central Phoenix, and ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Earlier today I received an email from Mitchell Hill Gallery letting me know that I needed to get ...

Source: Kumar Appaiah/Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0 Humans are social animals. We are strongly influenced by those around us. We adapt to what we perceive as normal behavior in an environment – the social norm ...