Woody land plants have existed for hundreds of millions of years. Wood fossils are interesting and beautiful, their familiar grain and annual growth layers bringing the deep past to life in a way that the grotesque skeletons of extinct animals do not.
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- Petrified Wood, Sonoma County, CaliforniaLooks ready to burn
- Petrified Wood, Panoche Hills, CaliforniaTeredo-riddled
- Petrified Wood, Panoche HillsSign of a whole geography
- Petrified Wood from Northern WyomingFrom an Eocene forest
- Wyoming Petrified WoodShowing its shiny side
- Closeup of Wyoming Fossil WoodQuite a show
- Agatized Log A tree transformed
- Fossil Tree Trunk in MontanaThe whole thing
- Fossil Tree Trunk, ZimbabweGreenish logs
- Petrified Wood Factory in IndonesiaA fossil lumberyard
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