fossilized

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Using advanced imaging technology, researchers were able to reveal creatures that had remained trapped inside the fossilized tree resin for tens of millions of years.

From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026

He even ground lenses from fossilized resin to study color effects as part of his work on color theory.

From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 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

The eggy daffodils on the wallpaper'd fossilized to slag-heap gray as the light faded.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell