fossilized

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South Korea is well known for fossilized dinosaur tracks, nests, and eggs, but actual dinosaur bones are relatively rare.

From Science Daily • Apr. 1, 2026

This was a fossilized program taking on a divisive, peripatetic local who’d pledged his prior job was going to be his “last job.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

"Examining the growth rings preserved in the fossilized bones allowed us to reconstruct the animals' year-by-year growth histories."

From Science Daily • Mar. 5, 2026

The frequent appearance of animated creatures suggests someone was quite fond of the CGI available, but the 3-D images of fossilized remains on the screens of the biological historians—and how they read them—are consistently fascinating.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026

He is continually placing some unexpected thing into her hands: a lightbulb, a fossilized fish, a flamingo feather.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr