fossilized

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Second, fossilized bones are extremely dense because minerals have replaced the original organic material over millions of years.

From Science Daily • Apr. 26, 2026

To overcome this, researchers focused on fossilized jaws, a part of the body more likely to survive over millions of years, to uncover clues about their early evolution.

From Science Daily • Apr. 25, 2026

Are they fossilized Martian microbes that lived billions of years ago when the planet next door was a wetter, warmer world?

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

This was a fossilized program taking on a divisive, peripatetic local who’d pledged his prior job was going to be his “last job.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

He hurried along the fossilized wooden ties with accumulating mutinous anger.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller