fossilized

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South Korea is well known for fossilized dinosaur tracks, nests, and eggs, but actual dinosaur bones are relatively rare.

From Science Daily • Apr. 1, 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

Tada and his colleagues set out to reconstruct the soft tissues hidden within the fossilized bone.

From Science Daily • Feb. 22, 2026

The frequent appearance of animated creatures suggests someone was quite fond of the CGI available, but the 3-D images of fossilized remains on the screens of the biological historians—and how they read them—are consistently fascinating.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026

Basically, if you get your jollies crawling on your hands and knees digging up fossilized poop, then you’ll really love an office full of the real thing—smell included.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman