PHOENIX — Petrified Forest National Park announced the sightings of Yellow-billed Cuckoo, a threatened bird along the Puerco River within the park. One individual bird was heard on July 15 and another ...

Tucked away in a remote bonebed in Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park laid hundreds of fossils, including a fragile jawbone belonging to one of the oldest-known flying reptiles: the pterosaur.

Archaeologists in Northern Arizona have uncovered a 1,300-year-old village inside Petrified Forest National Park. It’s the second ancient village discovered in as many years at the park. Archaeologist ...

If you drive just a few hours northeast from Phoenix to the Petrified Forest, it almost feels like you stepped onto a ...

Arizona's 3 national parks: Grand Canyon, Saguaro and Petrified Forest national parks Arizona's national parks offer majestic views, a forest of towering saguaros and a look back into time with a ...

Researchers found North America’s oldest known pterosaur. Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park has done it again. The famed fossil-rich ground has provided paleontologists a remarkable finding, ...

In an earlier Ask a Ranger column, I wrote about the topic of geoheritage sites — places of special cultural, scientific, educational or aesthetic value — and what makes those places important to ...

Volunteers working on fossils from a Petrified Forest National Park bonebed in the FossiLab on view to museumgoers in the David H. Koch Hall of Fossils – Deep Time at the Smithsonian’s National Museum ...

From a small island off the coast of Panama to the farthest reaches of space, the Smithsonian advanced our knowledge of the ...