fossilized

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Over time, more bees followed, using these natural cavities inside fossilized bones as ready-made nesting sites.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 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

To better understand what filled that space, researchers including a team from the University of Tokyo analyzed CT scans of fossilized Triceratops skulls.

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

The children watch engineers use pulleys to lift a fossilized dinosaur femur.

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