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

By examining the fossilized feathers, researchers identified a continuous line of black spots along the wing edges.

From Science Daily • Mar. 18, 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

Brian Hebert, an avocational paleontologist from Nova Scotia, located the small skull inside a fossilized tree stump during a field season led by Hillary Maddin, a professor of paleontology at Carleton University.

From Science Daily • Feb. 11, 2026

This is where they found it, all neatly fossilized.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman