Frozen in time, today that wood is beautiful. And so, as Parker explains, rangers occasionally see visitors trying to smuggle a piece home as a souvenir.

Visitors — the story went — were swiping a ton of petrified wood a month, 12 tons a year. Before long, according to the stories, the park would be barren. Maybe it already was in places.

The park estimates it loses about 12 tons of petrified wood a year to theft. Somewhere along the line, the myth developed that pilfered rocks will bring bad luck to the pilferers.

During the 1920s, petrified wood was so common in the area that it sold for as little as $5 a truckload, explained Mary G. Saltarelli of Granbury, who is writing a master’s thesis on Glen Rose ...

Most of the Petrified Forest National Park's petrified wood comes from tall conifers. These ancient trees grew more than 200 million years ago along waterways, where periodic flooding uprooted trees.

Because petrified wood is so often found in the West, it's quite surprising to many people that the Eastern U.S. is home to just two petrified forests in New York and Mississippi, making the ...

Our state’s grove of titanic trees, at least their petrified remains, stands in Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, about 35 miles west of Colorado Springs off U.S. 24.

The Petrified Wood Gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and noon to 6 p.m. on Sunday. The gallery closes in the winter but can be visited by appointment.

Byers' petrified wood had the healing curls. When the piece was cut and polished, he could also see a light-colored band dividing the pre- and post-fire growth, a mark that is also found in modern ...

DENVER (AP) - A 55-million-year-old piece of petrified wood that was found by a Denver teen at a Highlands Ranch construction site two years ago is being presented to some of the 6,300 people ...

A team of US scientists claims to have created petrified wood in just a few days, mimicking a natural process that normally takes millions of years. Researchers from Pacific Northwest National ...