fossilize
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Her fossilized sea urchin, from a beach on the Red Sea, “responds by radiating its own inner joy at being found and loved too,” whispering: “We are two cyclical beings, each with their own story.”
The researchers then applied this method to fossilized animal bones dating from 1.3 million to 3 million years ago.
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Scientists have uncovered more than 30,000 fossilized teeth, bones, and other remains on the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen.
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Instead of focusing on surrounding minerals or skeletal remains, Dr. Tucker and his colleagues turned their attention to fossilized dinosaur eggshells.
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Researchers rely heavily on fossilized bones to understand these environments, since the soft blades of seagrass rarely leave impressions in the geologic record.
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