An assortment of fossilized prehistoric plants and animals are found in the region, as well as dinosaur tracks and the evidence of early human habitation.
The fossilized plants containing mycorrhizal fungi were preserved in silica.
These factors left the Russell National Wildlife Refuge rich in readily exposed and recovered fossilized plants and animals.
The fossilized plants and animals in the Moenkopi are evidence of a climate shift to a warm tropical setting that may have experienced monsoonal, wet-dry conditions.
Oil is not, in fact, formed from dinosaurs, but from fossilized plant remains.
A tiny fossilized plant, barely one inch tall and resembling today's black pepper plant, has been identified by scientists at Yale University as the oldest known flower.
The fossilized plants and animals attract attention from both professional and amateur paleontologists.
The fossilized plants are silicified remnants of a sub-tropical forest that existed on the north-west part of the island 20-15 million years ago.
As it stands now, a tiny fossilized plant that lived 120 million years ago is considered the oldest known flower.
Mount Flora is the first site in Antarctica where fossilized plants were discovered.