fossilize
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Tracing the origins of octopuses has long been difficult because their soft bodies rarely fossilize.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2026
Behl is testing the chemical and mineral composition of the fossil blocks, hoping scientists can learn more about these prehistoric environments including the atmosphere and the conditions that enabled animal remains to fossilize.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 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
The researchers used measurements from the fossilized bones to estimate how large and heavy the C. theotonicus individual was at birth and at death.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
In the late 1990s, scientists working in the Ajimu area of Oita prefecture, Japan, uncovered three fossilized vertebrae from a giant salamander in the Cryptobranchidae family.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 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
"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 was my husband who first identified the fossilized stegosaur droppings for the university.”
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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
I see," said Miriam mischievously, "you think that sculpture should be a sort of fossilizing process.
From The Marble Faun - Volume 1 The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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