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The team also proposes a key explanation for the gap: the earliest sponges may not have had mineral skeletons, making them far less likely to fossilize.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 15, 2026

Brain tissue doesn’t fossilize, and so researchers examine the shape and size of the brain cavity in fossilized dinosaur skulls to deduce what their brains may have been like.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2024

My mom emigrated from South Korea in 1967, bringing a set of flavors, techniques and recipes that would fossilize from that moment.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 9, 2023

Bite marks left on bones can fossilize quite clearly, and once the team started searching for such marks in earnest they found distinct imprints of crocodilian teeth on Dakota’s bones.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 14, 2022

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

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

Researchers used the instrument to produce high-resolution images of smaller bones, amber and fossilized scales.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

Chemical analysis of one of Thomas’s fossilized teeth has provided the most precise estimate yet of T. rex’s body temperature.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Museum paleontologists excavated some 70% of Thomas’s fossilized skeleton in the early 2000s, making it one of the most complete T. rex specimens ever found.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

This study, however, took her into unusual territory: feathers preserved inside fossilized feces, known as coprolites.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

While the debris of ancient village sites does not include fossilized words along with bones and pottery, it does reveal movements of people and cultural artifacts that could be associated with languages.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

The world-renowned site features iron carbonate concretions that formed some 309 million years ago, fossilizing within them ancient creatures that had once thrived in the area's lush swamps, shallow seas and river deltas.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

Although he understands the rationale, Kim sees this as part of a wider trend of abandoning Korean words simply because they feel old-fashioned, fossilizing them even further.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2025

The challenges associated with fossilizing soft tissues make the trilobites Losso studied even more special.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 21, 2023

Fish skeletons — even after fossilizing — retain records of an animal's growth, which depends on seasonal food availability.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 23, 2022

Between the trenches the earth was torn and tortured, as though some sudden fossilizing process, in its moment of supreme agony, had fixed it thus.

From A Traveller in War-Time by Winston Churchill