fossilize
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When these results are combined with fossilized footprints, the overall appearance of this duck-billed dinosaur, long speculated about but never documented with this level of precision, becomes much clearer.
From Science Daily
Because sharks possess skeletons made of cartilage, their bodies rarely fossilize.
From Science Daily
It was made by taking body length and fin measurements from over 500 living and fossilized shark species.
From Science Daily
The fluffy animals also broke some of the fossilized bones, so the researchers decided to halt excavations.
From Science Magazine
The earliest firm evidence for freshwater is much younger: mounds of sediment and fossilized microbes called stromatolites that formed in hot springs 3.5 billion years ago.
From Science Magazine
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