An ancient fossilized forest in Montana is reemerging 600 feet higher than the present-day tree line after spending the last ...

The Fossil Forest in Dorset is a 145 million-year-old clump of dead trees on the Jurassic Coast — a 95-mile-long (153 kilometers) stretch of coastline in southern England littered with fossils ...

Aerial view of a fossil of Archaeopteris, a 385-million-year-old tree with surprisingly modern-looking roots. (Image credit: William Stein and Christopher Berry) (CN) – A research team of faculty from ...

The most extensive fossil forests of their kind in the world, they contain much information about the climate and geologic history of the Rocky Mountain region some 55 million years ago ...

A fossil representing the earliest known animal predator has been identified by UK scientists. The 560-million-year-old specimen, which was found in Charnwood Forest in Leicestershire, is likely a ...

A sun-swept corner of the Painted Desert draws more than 600,000 visitors each year. While most come to see one of the world's largest concentrations of brilliantly colored petrified wood, many ...

An artist's impression of what it might have looked like in West Antarctica 90 million years ago Scientists drilling off the coast of West Antarctica have found the fossil remains of forests that ...

WASHINGTON— More than 9,000 people today urged the U.S. Forest Service to halt plans to allow carbon waste from industrial sources like fossil fuel power plants to be dumped in national forests. In ...