Imagine walking through a forest where the trees are not made of wood but stone—ancient, fossilized remnants of a world that existed millions of years ago. These petrified logs, once towering trees, ...

Fossilization is an invaluable process for gaining a window into the past, but it can also create a tripping hazard. The way Angela Piller, collections manager at the Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks ...

The Drake Company Stone Cutting and Polishing Works once dominated the east side of the falls of the Big Sioux River. The company was started by James Haines Drake in 1883. The operation was comprised ...

Local rockhounds took advantage of a cool May weekend to haul chunks petrified wood out of a creekbed near Rayburn Country. The Pine Country Gem and Mineral Society of Jasper hosted the field trip, ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Dutch national Rijksmuseum made an embarrassing announcement last week that one of its most loved possessions, a moon rock, is a fake -- just an old piece of petrified wood that's ...

Here’s something that ought to pump some life blood into moon-landing-conspiracy theorists everywhere. If you visited the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam over the last 17 years and thought you saw a genuine ...

AMSTERDAM -- It's not green cheese, but it might as well be. The Dutch national museum said Thursday that one of its prized possessions, a rock supposedly brought back from the moon by U.S. astronauts ...

A prize possession in the Dutch national museum is not what the curators thought. In 1969, three Apollo 11 astronauts visited the Netherlands. And the U.S. ambassador gave the Dutch prime minister ...