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fossilization

[fahs-uh-liz-ay-shuhn, -lahyz-] / ˌfɑs ə lɪzˈeɪ ʃən, -laɪz- /


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So how do scientists begin to disentangle the various natural and human forces that influence fossilization?

From Science Daily • May 8, 2024

Given the rarity of fossilization for hominin remains and how few have been found, we might never catch a glimpse of our immediate direct ancestor, Wood says.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 3, 2024

Ms. Losso was analyzing the trilobites’ appendages when she came across a curled Ceraurus trilobite with a set of plates called sternites lining its stomach that rarely survives fossilization.

From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2023

The tree trunks, which are subfossils -- remains whose fossilization process is not complete -- were sliced into tiny single tree-rings.

From Science Daily • Oct. 9, 2023

It might be called the fossilization of religious ideas.

From Sketches from Concord and Appledore by Stearns, Frank Preston




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