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The mud helped to preserve and fossilize the wood.
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Thirty years later, that warning has come true: Dinosaurs, both fossilized and fictional, are firmly in the hands of the highest bidder.
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Catherine Baab-Muguira, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2025
The fossil, dated to about 444 million years ago, contained a new species of arthropod that fossilized inside-out, according to a paper published in the journal Palaeontology last week.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 31 Mar. 2025
In place of oxygen, the ocean was full of hydrogen sulfide, which the researchers believe may have caused the organism to fossilize inside out.
—Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2025
There will be this explosion of stuff, which will be very hard to destroy and will fossilize really easily.
—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2025
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Catherine Baab-Muguira, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2025
The fossil, dated to about 444 million years ago, contained a new species of arthropod that fossilized inside-out, according to a paper published in the journal Palaeontology last week.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 31 Mar. 2025
In place of oxygen, the ocean was full of hydrogen sulfide, which the researchers believe may have caused the organism to fossilize inside out.
—Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2025
There will be this explosion of stuff, which will be very hard to destroy and will fossilize really easily.
—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2025
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“Fossilize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fossilize. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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fossilize
verb
fos·sil·ize
ˈfäs-ə-ˌlīz 
fossilized; fossilizing
: to change or become changed into a fossil
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