Fossilized

Possibly the fossilized tracks belong to animals of the Jurassic period.

A fossilized shell is what I'm holding in my hands.

What I'm holding in my hands is a fossilized shell.

“One of the fun things about some of the fossils is, they tell stories,” Bowen said, pointing to a fossilized stingray hanging on the shop wall.

The town of Kemmerer calls itself “Wyoming’s Aquarium in Stone.” Quarries just outside town yield schools of fossilized fish with just a few taps of a chisel.

A new study based on fossilized footprints suggests a prehistoric relative of modern crocodiles walked on two hind legs.

The fossilized footprints had originally been thought to belong to a pterosaur — a flying dinosaur — that had been walking on two legs.

Amber is fossilized resin.

In a study published Wednesday in the science journal Nature, Laurentian University geologist Elizabeth Turner detailed how she found fossilized three-dimensional structures that resemble modern sponge skeletons in thin sections of rocks taken from the remnants of a prehistoric ocean reef.

The fossilized skeleton of a ferocious Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur will be on exhibit next year in the new fossil hall at the Museum of Natural History.