fossilized

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Two of those specimens turned out to contain fossilized animals that were nearly impossible to see with the naked eye because the amber pieces were never polished.

From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026

Second, fossilized bones are extremely dense because minerals have replaced the original organic material over millions of years.

From Science Daily • Apr. 26, 2026

Are they fossilized Martian microbes that lived billions of years ago when the planet next door was a wetter, warmer world?

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 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

I take table 24 their reheated main courses, which they immediately reject as either too cold or fossilized by the microwave.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich