How to Use fossilized in a Sentence

fossilized

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  • Their fossilized teeth, Daniel C. Abel notes, were believed to be the stone tongues of dragons.
    — Katherine Rundell, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
  • Mario’s grapes grow over soils bulging with fossilized shells.
    — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 24 July 2022
  • The sparkle comes from fragments of fossilized clams and snails that lived and died in Cretaceous ponds and lakes.
    — Kristi Curry Rogers, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The fossilized liver was quite large and likely helped the fish stay buoyant, per the authors.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The fossilized skin was found by itself, unattached to bone.
    — Kate Golembiewski, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The fossilized skull was found in the Peruvian Amazon and belongs to the group Platanistoidea.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences assessed a plethora of fossilized eggs and eggshells from China.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The fossilized bones were mistaken for another species for many years.
    — NBC News, 6 Oct. 2021
  • If anything, the fossilized tissue bore a striking resemblance to the scaly skin of a crocodile.
    — Kate Golembiewski, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • This is a fossilized coral — one of dozens scattered across the Indian Ocean archipelago of the Seychelles.
    — Frank Hulley-Jones, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Known only from its fossilized skull, this long-extinct species is shrouded in secrets.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 29 Aug. 2022
  • The pair were initially hindered by a lack of fossil flowers, which are scarce compared with fossilized bones.
    — Jack Tamisiea, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The fossilized egg dates back to the late Cretaceous period, which took place between 72 million to 66 million years ago.
    — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 23 Dec. 2021
  • The team believes that it was likely produced by some species of a crocodile-like predator called a phytosaur based on the shape of the fossilized poop and the remains of phytosaurs have been found in the area for decades.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The paper found a compelling piece of evidence in the pig’s ear – a fossilized structure that whales alone have and use for underwater hearing.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Along the way, the researchers unearthed the oldest-yet stingray fossil from North American and some fossilized dinosaur feces.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 25 July 2023
  • The skin is a 3-dimensional cast with some fossilized tissue attached.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The fossilized dinosaur embryo came from Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province in southern China and was acquired by researchers in 2000.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2021
  • The fossilized skull of the 80-million-year-old previously unknown species of titanosaur shows the horn in remarkable detail.
    — Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 10 Sep. 2020
  • The sacs' presence can be detected from indentations and cavities in fossilized bones, even when the soft tissues are long gone.
    — Riley Black, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Science Lonely northern cliffs from which scientists have pulled the bones of Alaska dinosaurs also hold the fossilized remains of birds.
    — Ned Rozell | Alaska Science, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Feb. 2023
  • This abstract motif is the fossilized vestige of the archaeocyaths, a diverse group of filter-feeding sponges.
    — Jack Tamisiea, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Hall, a paleontologist for the Yukon, has been digging up, identifying, and studying fossilized bones since her first trip to a gold mine in 2003.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2022
  • The team hoped to find evidence of soft tissues under the coating, but a microscopic analysis revealed the presence of paint rather than fossilized skin.
    — Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Their fossilized ancient footprints found at White Sands National Park humanize them, revealing the actions of their lives in ways that static bones and stone tools cannot.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Oct. 2023
  • If there are fossilized traces or other chemical signatures of the methane-producing microbes that may have lived in the soil of Jezero crater, the samples could reveal them.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Perhaps the most obvious and direct route is simply looking for fossilized microbes.
    — Carmen Drahl, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 May 2023
  • Still, determining an animal’s weight based solely on its fossilized remains is tricky, so not all scientists are ready to hand over the title just yet.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Since the oldest intact fossilized butterfly was 55 million years old, and bats evolved in the same era, many scientists had thought that a group of moths became day-flying to escape bat predation.
    — Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Though Foals albums can sometimes feel like the fossilized amber of an early 2010s rock soundscape, live performances invigorate the band and serve as its best context.
    — Teta Alim, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2022

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