fossilized

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Over time, more bees followed, using these natural cavities inside fossilized bones as ready-made nesting sites.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 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

These included body size, patterns of tooth wear, chemical clues such as isotope levels preserved in fossil remains, and in rare cases fossilized stomach contents that revealed an animal's last meal.

From Science Daily • Feb. 1, 2026

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.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

She found sea glass and a fossilized crab leg embedded in a concretion.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson