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| As if my simple chalk could fossilize the memory of her monumental reefs of caulifloral coral. Bones and shells fossilize more readily than an organism's soft parts do, but even delicate tissues such as the multicellular embryos in eggs laid by marine organisms can be preserved under the right environmental conditions (SN: 1/28/06, p. A buried bone takes millions of years to fossilize (turn into rock). |
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