fossilized

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Tada and his colleagues set out to reconstruct the soft tissues hidden within the fossilized bone.

From Science Daily • Feb. 22, 2026

However, the skull had fossilized with the mouth closed, hiding internal structures such as the brain case.

From Science Daily • Feb. 11, 2026

The frequent appearance of animated creatures suggests someone was quite fond of the CGI available, but the 3-D images of fossilized remains on the screens of the biological historians—and how they read them—are consistently fascinating.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 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

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

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