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

With its unique stand of trees turned into stone, The Petrified Forest between Sonoma and Napa counties is seeking buyers for the 500-acre property rich in history and natural beauty.

Kay Behrensmeyer, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, is shown in Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park. Photo by Ben Kligman A ...

Kay Behrensmeyer, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, is shown in Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park. Photo by Ben Kligman A ...

Kay Behrensmeyer, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, is shown in Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park. Photo by Ben Kligman A ...

First occurrence The pterosaur’s jawbone with teeth came from a remote area in northeastern Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park, Smithsonian officials said.