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After plants spread theirs far and wide it can be preserved in lakebeds or fossilized in soil.
在植物把它们播撒四方之后，它们可以长期存留在湖底的淤泥里或者或化石中。
Yes, you read that correctly. Coprolites -- hunks of fossilized poop -- can reveal the diets and behaviors of ancient animals, but this one is plain weird.
这没有写错。粪化石——石化了的粪块——可以显示出远古动物的食性和行为特征，但是这个化石简直就是怪异地可以。
The discovery was made by a team of scientists from China and the UK, who used electron microscopy technology to analyze membranes in fossilized dinosaurs to determine what color the feathers were.
这个发现是由一队来自中国和英国的科学家联手做出的。他们用电子显微镜分析恐龙化石的细胞膜，进而判断恐龙的羽毛颜色。

Professor Sereno received fossilized remains of the creature three years ago from a private collector in the American state of Massachusetts.
The researchers used an electron microscope and fossilized remains of thirty feathers that once covered the animal.
He examined fossilized remains in a piece of gypsum found on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea.

Paleontologists at Drexel University are using 3-D printing to turn fossilized bones into dinosaur robots.
FORBES: Scientists Are Building Robot Dinosaurs Out Of 3-D Printed Fossils

If the remains of an animal or plant fossilize or are fossilized, they become hard and form fossils, instead of decaying completely.
If you say that ideas, attitudes, or ways of behaving have fossilized or have been fossilized, you are criticizing the fact that they are fixed and unlikely to change, in spite of changing situations or circumstances.
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