fossilize
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These conditions usually erase delicate biological remains long before they can fossilize.
From Science Daily • Jan. 27, 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
Bite marks left on bones can fossilize quite clearly, and once the team started searching for such marks in earnest they found distinct imprints of crocodilian teeth on Dakota’s bones.
From Scientific American • Oct. 14, 2022
However, viruses do not fossilize, so researchers must conjecture by investigating how today’s viruses evolve and by using biochemical and genetic information to create speculative virus histories.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
If she kept changing, she could never fossilize into the thing their father had become .
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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