Overshadowed by the Grand Canyon, this quiet desert park might just surprise you. From rainbow-colored badlands to Route 66 ...

A Smithsonian-led team of researchers have discovered North America's oldest known pterosaur, the winged reptiles that lived ...

Smithsonian researchers have linked discoveries within Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park with a previously unknown ...

Paleontologists know the bone bed as PFV 393. The late fossil preparator Bill Amaral found the site in 2011 on a field trip ...

Researchers were able to date the fossil of the flying reptile, a close cousin of dinosaurs, back to more than 209 million ...

A fossil from a seagull-sized winged reptile that lived millions of years ago was found in Arizona, and the creature has now ...

Smithsonian scientists have uncovered North America’s oldest known pterosaur from a 209-million-year-old bonebed in Arizona’s ...

Found deep in the backcountry of the Petrified Forest National Park and uncovered by a volunteer in Washington, the specimen ...

Petrified Forest National Park, 18 miles southeast of Holbrook, is world-renowned for its petrified wood deposits, but much less known for its mining history and potash deposits.

Eotephradactylus mcintireae’ is the oldest-known flying reptile from the continent and roamed the skies 209 million years ago.

With a nod to Route 66’s vintage charm and the region’s rich geological and cultural history, the Petrified Forest Museum ...

A rare Triassic fossil site reveals North America's oldest known pterosaur, Eotephradactylus mcintireae, in what was once a ...