fossilize

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These conditions usually erase delicate biological remains long before they can fossilize.

From Science Daily • Jan. 27, 2026

Behl is testing the chemical and mineral composition of the fossil blocks, hoping scientists can learn more about these prehistoric environments including the atmosphere and the conditions that enabled animal remains to fossilize.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2024

Historically, reports of scientists finding fossilized brain tissue have been controversial because it was once thought that nervous tissue couldn’t fossilize, Live Science previously reported.

From Scientific American • Oct. 5, 2022

However, viruses do not fossilize, so researchers must conjecture by investigating how today’s viruses evolve and by using biochemical and genetic information to create speculative virus histories.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

If she kept changing, she could never fossilize into the thing their father had become .

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan