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The mud helped to preserve and fossilize the wood.
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Nature transforms heat into chemical energy in living beings, or in hydrocarbons, fossilized over hundreds of millions of years.
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André Hoffmann and Peter Vanham, TIME, 10 Sep. 2024
The hot volcanic flow that buried the trilobites preserved impressions of soft tissues that typically don’t fossilize, including gut organs, antennae, feeding structures and clusters of sensory bristles, and tiny spines on the trilobites’ appendages.
—Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 9 July 2024
The Petrified Forest encompasses vast areas where ancient trees have fossilized into colorful, mineralized stone.
—Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2024
One specimen preserves both feather impressions and tendons, which rarely fossilize.
—Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 7 July 2024
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André Hoffmann and Peter Vanham, TIME, 10 Sep. 2024
The hot volcanic flow that buried the trilobites preserved impressions of soft tissues that typically don’t fossilize, including gut organs, antennae, feeding structures and clusters of sensory bristles, and tiny spines on the trilobites’ appendages.
—Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 9 July 2024
The Petrified Forest encompasses vast areas where ancient trees have fossilized into colorful, mineralized stone.
—Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2024
One specimen preserves both feather impressions and tendons, which rarely fossilize.
—Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 7 July 2024
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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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