fossilized

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The fossilized bones provide clues about how Kank may have hunted.

From Science Daily • May 29, 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

Using bone histology, or the study of fossilized bone microstructure, the team analyzed this small throat bone and identified growth patterns that indicate the animal had reached or was close to full maturity.

From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 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

By morning light, the books are all hunched together again with their spines turned out, fossilized, inanimate.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver