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The mud helped to preserve and fossilize the wood.
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There will be this explosion of stuff, which will be very hard to destroy and will fossilize really easily.
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Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2025
This is because sharks' skeletons are made of cartilage, which tends not to fossilize.
—Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 11 Mar. 2025
Sediments filled their sinkhole thereafter, trapping them there until they were found, fossilized, in 2022.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2025
Maybe the extinct examples never became fossilized, or paleontologists haven’t recognized them in the fossil record.
—Daniel Brady Mills, The Conversation, 14 Feb. 2025
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Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2025
This is because sharks' skeletons are made of cartilage, which tends not to fossilize.
—Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 11 Mar. 2025
Sediments filled their sinkhole thereafter, trapping them there until they were found, fossilized, in 2022.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2025
Maybe the extinct examples never became fossilized, or paleontologists haven’t recognized them in the fossil record.
—Daniel Brady Mills, The Conversation, 14 Feb. 2025
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“Fossilize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fossilize. Accessed 4 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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