fossilized

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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

For many years, paleontologists have studied annual growth rings preserved inside the fossilized leg bones of Tyrannosaurus rex.

From Science Daily • Mar. 5, 2026

Tada and his colleagues set out to reconstruct the soft tissues hidden within the fossilized bone.

From Science Daily • Feb. 22, 2026

However, the skull had fossilized with the mouth closed, hiding internal structures such as the brain case.

From Science Daily • Feb. 11, 2026

This is where they found it, all neatly fossilized.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman