fossilize
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These durable elements fossilize well and appear in rocks dating back about 543 million years to the late Ediacaran Period.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 28, 2026
Brain tissue doesn’t fossilize, and so researchers examine the shape and size of the brain cavity in fossilized dinosaur skulls to deduce what their brains may have been like.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2024
My mom emigrated from South Korea in 1967, bringing a set of flavors, techniques and recipes that would fossilize from that moment.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 9, 2023
Bite marks left on bones can fossilize quite clearly, and once the team started searching for such marks in earnest they found distinct imprints of crocodilian teeth on Dakota’s bones.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 14, 2022
If she kept changing, she could never fossilize into the thing their father had become .
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
Researchers examining fossilized anaconda vertebrae from Venezuela found that these enormous snakes had already evolved large bodies by approximately 12.4 million years ago.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
The scans confirmed fossilized soft tissue in cut sections of the rib.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
It’s not the first time in recent years that a fossilized Pacific mastodon tooth has been discovered in the region.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
The fossilized tooth is believed to be at least 10,000 years old.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
He hurried along the fossilized wooden ties with accumulating mutinous anger.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
The world-renowned site features iron carbonate concretions that formed some 309 million years ago, fossilizing within them ancient creatures that had once thrived in the area's lush swamps, shallow seas and river deltas.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
The challenges associated with fossilizing soft tissues make the trilobites Losso studied even more special.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 21, 2023
Fish skeletons — even after fossilizing — retain records of an animal's growth, which depends on seasonal food availability.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 23, 2022
After his summer of fossilizing, Grinnell worked for his father’s securities-trading firm in New York and then as an aide to Marsh in New Haven.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 18, 2019
I see," said Miriam mischievously, "you think that sculpture should be a sort of fossilizing process.
From The Marble Faun - Volume 1 The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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