fossilize
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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.
From Science Daily
Because sharks possess skeletons made of cartilage, their bodies rarely fossilize.
From Science Daily
The sacs' presence can be detected from indentations and cavities in fossilized bones, even when the soft tissues are long gone.
From Scientific American
The only thing that could drive the dinosaur lip debate to extinction may be a fossilized face.
From New York Times
But a research team has drawn clues about sounds the extinct creatures could have made from what might be the first known fossilized larynx of a dinosaur.
From New York Times
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