On a brisk Friday morning last month, Colorado Springs resident Kathy Zilverberg joined a few of her friends for a walk through the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument. The women call themselves ...

The fossil beds' biggest attraction is a petrified stump that once supported a 200-foot-high redwood tree. Credit: Terri Cook and Lon Abbott The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in ...

The nearest national monument to Colorado Springs asks you to imagine a tropical place that existed 34 million years ago. A forest beside the sea is depicted in displays at Florissant Fossil Beds’ ...

ANAHEIM, Calif. - What's the oldest attraction at Disneyland? It's not the tea cups or the jungle cruise, it's a 5-ton petrified tree stump from Colorado that's between 50-70 million years old. The ...

Whether Mother Nature takes out a tree or you have one removed for poor performance, as a safety precaution, or to improve the view, part of it remains, the stump. Big or small, you have some ...

Theodore Roosevelt National Park, N.D. - It's not an easy trip, this voyage through time. First, there is a 5-mile rough gravel road. Then comes a dirt road with deep ruts. Next is a hole in a tall ...

Storm Francis uncovered more petrified tree stumps in Wales' Cardigan Bay, 15 miles south of the sunken forest in Borth. Courtesy of the Ceredigion Historical Society Storm Francis battered the United ...