fossilize
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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 Churchill, Winston
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