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

Fossils of trees and a desert with red, tan and lavender shades await visitors at Petrified Forest National Park, about 116 ...

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

At a remote bone bed in Arizona, researchers have unearthed North America's oldest known pterosaur, offering groundbreaking insights into the evolution of these ancient flying reptiles. What does this ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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