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After plants spread theirs far and wide it can be preserved in lakebeds or fossilized in soil.
在植物把它們播撒四方之後，它們可以長期存畱在湖底的淤泥裡或者或化石中。
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.
這沒有寫錯。糞化石——石化了的糞塊——可以顯示出遠古動物的食性和行爲特征，但是這個化石簡直就是怪異地可以。
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.
這個發現是由一隊來自中國和英國的科學家聯手做出的。他們用電子顯微鏡分析恐龍化石的細胞膜，進而判斷恐龍的羽毛顔色。

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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