fossilize
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The possibility of strangers allowing marinara to fossilize on my favorite saucepan is among the many reasons I’ve never considered entering the vacation rental business.
From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026
These durable elements fossilize well and appear in rocks dating back about 543 million years to the late Ediacaran Period.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 28, 2026
Brain tissue doesn’t fossilize, and so researchers examine the shape and size of the brain cavity in fossilized dinosaur skulls to deduce what their brains may have been like.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2024
My mom emigrated from South Korea in 1967, bringing a set of flavors, techniques and recipes that would fossilize from that moment.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 9, 2023
If she kept changing, she could never fossilize into the thing their father had become .
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
A third technique involved fossilized shells from Melanopsis, a genus of freshwater snails found within the sediment.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026
To estimate its total length, the researchers compared the fossilized bones with vertebrae from living snakes whose body lengths are known.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
Chemical analysis of one of Thomas’s fossilized teeth has provided the most precise estimate yet of T. rex’s body temperature.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Ultraviolet light can cause fossilized tissues and the surrounding rock to respond differently, making otherwise invisible structures stand out.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
A million years from now, when the rest of the city had crumbled, the bridge would probably remain like a fossilized bone.
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
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
I see," said Miriam mischievously, "you think that sculpture should be a sort of fossilizing process.
From The Marble Faun - Volume 1 The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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