fossilized
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It’s an auction record for a fossilized dinosaur skeleton, beating a 150-million-year-old Stegosaurus that sold for $44.6 million two years ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
"Gus" is one of the world's most complete T. rex skeletons -- with 183 fossilized bones -- and was discovered on a cattle ranch in South Dakota in 2021.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
It’s an auction record for a fossilized dinosaur skeleton, beating the $44.6 million that Citadel founder Kenneth Griffin paid two years ago for Apex, a 150-million-year old Stegosaurus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
He notes that without his previous experience recognizing fossilized wasp nests, he might have simply cleaned away the unusual sediment during fossil preparation.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 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
