Lake Florissant once stretched from the area of Teller County roads 1 and 11 to west of the community of Lake George. Thirty-four-million years ago a catastrophic volcanic ash and mud flows came into ...

Petrified wood is a fossil that is the remains of ancient vegetation, most commonly ancient trees. It occurs by a natural action known as permineralization, a process in which mineral deposits take on ...

UNGA ISLAND, Alaska — If you want to stroll through the only forest in the Shumagin Islands, you have to wear rubber boots and wait until the tide goes out. In the Shumagins, where the wind never ...

The fossil beds' biggest attraction is a petrified stump that once supported a 200-foot-high redwood tree. Credit: Terri Cook and Lon Abbott The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in ...

Stretching to the horizon, the gray-white earth rises in peaks, like a well-whipped meringue petrified into mud and rock. A keen wind whips these otherworldly hills, while the land underfoot is ...