fossilize
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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
Geologists have studied them for a long time because their shells can fossilize, but we do not know much about their biology.
From Science Daily • Dec. 11, 2023
Historically, reports of scientists finding fossilized brain tissue have been controversial because it was once thought that nervous tissue couldn’t fossilize, Live Science previously reported.
From Scientific American • Oct. 5, 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
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