fossilize
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Researchers rely heavily on fossilized bones to understand these environments, since the soft blades of seagrass rarely leave impressions in the geologic record.
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Using CT imaging and specialized software that allowed them to digitally model fossilized nervous system structures, the researchers concentrated on the closest known relative of the pterosaur.
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To compare ancient and modern sizes, the researchers examined 183 fossilized backbone segments belonging to at least 32 individual anacondas.
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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.
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Because sharks possess skeletons made of cartilage, their bodies rarely fossilize.
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