Every piece of wood found offers a window into the Earth a millions years ago. Walt Wright is the man who lives to find the pieces, examine them and tell you their age and their origin. Wright, a ...

LAS CRUCES - Herbert Zuhl, a local philanthropist and donor to New Mexico State University, died at age 97 on Feb. 12. Herb and his wife who passed away in 2016, Joan Zuhl, donated their extensive ...

If you have not heard of the Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals, you are likely not alone. Now, there are plenty of puns about hidden gems, and how the place rocks, but I'll leave the puns ...

That's what the 77-year-old twin brothers have been doing for five years with their Petrified Wood Gallery on the east end of Front Street, a sort of strip mall along U.S. 30 in Ogallala built to look ...

Furniture just got geological. You may not think you want furniture that’s a few million years old, or that has been buried underground, but that could just be because you haven’t yet met Elte’s new ...

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 ...

Petrified Forest National Park, in northeastern Arizona, is known for — and named in honor of — its extensive deposits of petrified wood. So impressive and picturesque is the forest that it was used ...

How would you like to step into a 36 million-year-old forest? In Flora, Mississippi, you can do just that. Flora is the home of Mississippi's Petrified Forest, a National Natural Landmark. A trail ...

In a barren land far away, people gather to see a collection of artefacts more than 200 million years old. But in the process, it seems they’ve been cursed. Call it the Hope Diamond of the geological ...