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

The soft tissue was first to fossilize, encasing the 3-D network of collagen-like fibers that formed the sponge’s skeleton.

From Washington Post • Jul. 29, 2021

If she kept changing, she could never fossilize into the thing their father had become .

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan