fossilized

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Using a combination of advanced laboratory methods, including protein sequencing and several forms of mass spectrometry, scientists detected remnants of collagen embedded within the fossilized bone.

From Science Daily • May 14, 2026

Are they fossilized Martian microbes that lived billions of years ago when the planet next door was a wetter, warmer world?

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

This was a fossilized program taking on a divisive, peripatetic local who’d pledged his prior job was going to be his “last job.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

"Examining the growth rings preserved in the fossilized bones allowed us to reconstruct the animals' year-by-year growth histories."

From Science Daily • Mar. 5, 2026

She dropped like a chunk of fossilized dinosaur bone.

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein