Like arthropods today, trilobites molted as they grew, shedding their old exoskeleton. These molts could fossilize, so one animal could leave several different sized fossils behind.
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Fossilize
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5 entriescultural fossilizationinstitutional fossilizationlinguistic fossilizationpermineralizationpetrification
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Most of the booths had been scooped clean by the scalpel-sharp corner of the glacier in the crash. Three remained. Two of them were punctured and, inside, the once-human occupants had been fossilized into the walls by centuries upon centuries of patient ice.
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I was getting fossilised myself, but of late my stock of ideas has been very much enlarged.
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Ten layers of birthdays on a woman's head / Are apt to fossilize her girlish mirth.
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