Indeed, as the people of Glen Rose learned, the fossils work nicely as a brick substitute. In the 1920s and 1930s, locals built numerous buildings using petrified wood, including a Prohibition-era ...

Body fossil – The remains of part (or all) of an actual organism. In the kits, the trilobite (2), brachiopod (3), dinosaur bone (4), horse tooth (5), petrified wood (6), graptolite (7), fish (8), ...

The fallen fossil tree after sustaining bomb damage during an air raid in 1940 The wood is petrified, meaning that it has been turned to stone. For petrified wood to form, organic material is replaced ...

Military survey parties passing through the region in the 1850s filled their saddlebags with the petrified wood. As word of these remarkable deposits spread, fossil logs were hauled off by the ...

Fossil Cycad National Monument was removed from the Park ... Visitors were pocketing small pieces of petrified wood to take home as souvenirs, which was adding up to a significant loss. Santucci knew ...

In the Black Hills of South Dakota, consider stopping at a small, artsy town that has unique attractions and murals the whole ...

A featured display in the center of the room exhibits specimens of petrified wood. There will also be a featured display of mineral specimens from the Linwood Mine near Buffalo, IA. The GESCI Show ...