fossilize
fossilise BrE

That one was supposed to be in the process of being fossilized.

Fossilized into the other side of the rock is a shape.

Fish were also present and sometimes their scales would fossilize.

Inhabitants of the sea would sometimes fossilize in the state.

It took twenty million years to make the fish and to fossilize him so we'd have the evidence later.

On land the flora also left behind leaves that would later fossilize.

There, in the middle of it, appeared the bone fossilized.

Everyone knows that once a bone has fossilized, it's hard as a rock, right?

Sharks left behind their teeth to fossilize at this time.

Many of the river valleys are fossilized with salt pans.

We walk around a slab of garbage fossilized in acrylic.

This makes the assumption, of course, that the plants have not changed their habits since they were fossilized.

The first radio set his race had built were now fossilized in strata a thousand million years old.

These are easy to fossilize due to their silica shells.

The local flora from this interval also left behind remains that would later fossilize.

Although sometimes called "fossilized", the imprints are not old enough to be true fossils.

Many individuals would have died in one area, creating a dense bone bed once fossilized.

For one thing, flowers do not readily fossilize - and leaves alone can be misleading.

Local oysters left behind remains that would later fossilize.

Not all sponges contain hard parts capable of being fossilized.

Sandy, why does an establishment always fossilize so quickly?

This sea was home to bacteria and stromatolites which would later fossilize.

During the Jurassic, local plants left behind spores that would later fossilize.

It can fossilize, or cease developing, in any of its developmental stages.

The local dinosaurs also left behind eggs to fossilize.

Things created or left behind by animals can also fossilise, such as their footprints, burrows and dung.

Soft-bodied organisms can fossilise in special circumstances: the Ediacaran biota is a good example.

The name describes the pattern of infolding of the dentine and enamel of the teeth, which often fossilise.

The heavy hitters would have made their way to the rooms at the back, and tomorrow would find half of them in the piles of garbage in the street, their corpses waiting to fossilise like everything else.

I do not want to convey any disrespectful notion or slight when I call those good and learned men fossils, but my experience is that people are apt to fossilise even at a University if they follow the same paths too persistently.