Collared Lizard, Petrified Forest National Park

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September 1996

I encountered this colorful creature along the park's Giant Logs Trail. The petrified wood it sits on was once a tree, but that was 200 million years ago -- its tissues were long ago replaced by a rainbow of quartz crystals.

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