fossilize
Example Sentences
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Because sharks possess skeletons made of cartilage, their bodies rarely fossilize.
From Science Daily • Nov. 22, 2025
Behl is testing the chemical and mineral composition of the fossil blocks, hoping scientists can learn more about these prehistoric environments including the atmosphere and the conditions that enabled animal remains to fossilize.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2024
Bite marks left on bones can fossilize quite clearly, and once the team started searching for such marks in earnest they found distinct imprints of crocodilian teeth on Dakota’s bones.
From Scientific American • Oct. 14, 2022
The soft tissue was first to fossilize, encasing the 3-D network of collagen-like fibers that formed the sponge’s skeleton.
From Washington Post • Jul. 29, 2021
If she kept changing, she could never fossilize into the thing their father had become .
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
