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The mud helped to preserve and fossilize the wood.
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These boneless organisms fossilized as biofilm — they were rapidly buried and compressed between layers of rock, leaving behind two-dimensional impressions of their organic tissues.
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Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 4 Apr. 2026
Fela’s greatest achievement may be that his music never fossilized.
—Obi Asika, semafor.com, 6 Feb. 2026
Each night was a gathering of ancestors and descendants, a communion of spirits, a refusal to let history fossilize into something static.
—Essence, 3 Dec. 2025
In due course of time, the organic material decayed, and the skeleton underneath fossilized over longer timescales.
—Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
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Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 4 Apr. 2026
Fela’s greatest achievement may be that his music never fossilized.
—Obi Asika, semafor.com, 6 Feb. 2026
Each night was a gathering of ancestors and descendants, a communion of spirits, a refusal to let history fossilize into something static.
—Essence, 3 Dec. 2025
In due course of time, the organic material decayed, and the skeleton underneath fossilized over longer timescales.
—Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
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“Fossilize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fossilize. Accessed 11 Apr. 2026.
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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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