fossilized
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The fossilized tooth is believed to be at least 10,000 years old.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
A rich collection of living and fossilized corals is present in the Galapagos Islands, the volcanic archipelago off the west coast of Ecuador, right at the heart of the eastern Pacific El Nino zone.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
The researchers used measurements from the fossilized bones to estimate how large and heavy the C. theotonicus individual was at birth and at death.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
In the late 1990s, scientists working in the Ajimu area of Oita prefecture, Japan, uncovered three fossilized vertebrae from a giant salamander in the Cryptobranchidae family.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026
Other bones and fossilized footprints were found in the Connecticut River Valley of New England after a farm boy named Plinus Moody spied ancient tracks on a rock ledge at South Hadley, Massachusetts.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
