“In 2006, the name of the park was changed to the Petrified Forest Park because of the fascinating discoveries.” As to why there were big trees in the past that are unrelated to today’s ...

Sediments buried part of the tree's trunk, which then mineralized—preserving a fossil that's now breaking records. A portion of the petrified Paraphyllanthoxylon log. In life, the tree probably ...

The 2-acre hill, Friend learned, was a giant mound of volcanic rock known as basalt. So far Friend has dug up about 200 petrified trees and expects to find hundreds more. The trees are mostly ...

"After finding dozens of trees, I realized that what I was looking at was the remains of a petrified forest," Francek said, according to an EBMUD statement released early last week. His interest ...