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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

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

Historically, reports of scientists finding fossilized brain tissue have been controversial because it was once thought that nervous tissue couldn’t fossilize, Live Science previously reported.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 5, 2022

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

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

Researchers examining fossilized anaconda vertebrae from Venezuela found that these enormous snakes had already evolved large bodies by approximately 12.4 million years ago.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 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

Remarkably, evidence of that ancient meal survived in fossilized feces, preserving what researchers describe as the finest feather specimen yet discovered from the age of dinosaurs.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

The fossilized tooth is believed to be at least 10,000 years old.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

Other bones and fossilized footprints were found in the Connecticut River Valley of New England after a farm boy named Plinus Moody spied ancient tracks on a rock ledge at South Hadley, Massachusetts.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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