A representative with Madagascar Minerals says a thief took thousands of dollars worth of merchandise from the businesses main Gem Show location early Saturday morning. "He didn't really seem like ...

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 ...

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.

For nearly three weeks now, a photograph of a spectacular specimen of petrified wood has been going viral. It appears in at least 17 discussion groups on Reddit, one of which has more than 41,000 ...

Hiking at Escalante Petrified National Park The Petrified Forest Trail is a mile loop that immediately takes hikers on a winding trail that gains about 200 feet in elevation to the top of the mesa.

The Petrified Wood Principle is an essential tool for designing workspaces, streets, or communication campaigns inspiring people to behave conscientiously though the power of communal affiliation.

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 ...

Petrified Forest National Park Archives And Thompson admits yearning for them too. “When I arrived home after my second trip,” he says, “I purchased a few pieces of petrified wood on eBay in ...

In recent years, the staggering figure that a ton of glittering petrified wood was stolen the park every month from has been shown to be a myth, writes Brian Switek for Smithsonian Magazine.

Petrified or silicified wood, also known as stone tree, is a type of fossil formed from a dead tree. It is created when plant material is buried by sediment and protected from decay.

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Dutch national Rijksmuseum made an embarrassing announcement last week that one of its most loved possessions, a moon rock, is a fake -- just an old piece of petrified wood ...

The Dutch national museum said Thursday that one of its prized possessions, a rock supposedly brought back from the moon by U.S. astronauts, is just a piece of petrified wood.