The Gona tools lay undisturbed until annual flooding of the nearby Awash river uncovered layers of sediment and the fossilized tools

附近一年一度泛滥的阿瓦什河将一层层的沉积物和已成化石的石器展现在我们眼前。在此之前，戈纳石器无人触动。

The ambers are fossilized tree sap or resin. craftsmen carve them into animal figures, brooches, rings, necklaces, bracelets and cigarette holders.

琥珀是化石化了的树液或树脂。艺术家们把琥珀雕刻成动物、胸饰针、戒指、项链、手镯和烟嘴。

The test of whether such traditions are alive or fossilized is whether they express themselves in action, and develop further under new circumstances

检验这一类传统是否尚有活力或者已经僵化，要看其是否表现于行动，并在新的环境下进一步发展。

belemnite:a cone-shaped, fossilized internal shell of any of an extinct genus of cephalopods related to the cuttlefish.

箭石:由灭绝的与乌贼有血亲关系的头足纲动物的内壳形成的尖锥状化石。

With brushes and awls we teased away the rock encasing its fossilized jaws

借着刷子和锥子，我们将附在已成化石的下颚上的石块刨开。

Archaeologists excavated fossilized dinosaur tracks from the riverbed

考古学家从河床中挖掘出恐龙的足迹化石。

buhrstonealsoburrstone:La tough, silicified limestone formerly used to make millstones. It is typified by the presence of multiple cavities that originally housed fossilized shells.

磨石,砂质多孔石灰岩:一种坚硬的,硅化石灰石,以前用来制作磨石。具有最初由化石化的贝壳而形成的多孔特征。

The evidence for a warm antarctic has been fossilized pollen and plankton found high in the Transantarctic Mountains, near the coast, and dated to around 3 million years ago

南极洲曾经温暖的证据是在横跨南极山脉靠近海岸的高地上发现的花粉和浮游生物的化石，其年代被确定为距今300万年左右。

Most prehistoric plants and animals decayed shortly after their death. But those that had hard parts, such as teeth, bones, shells or woody tissue rnay become fossilized .

太多数史前植物和动物在它们死后不久就腐烂了，但是有一些植物、动物具有硬组织，例如牙齿、骨骼、壳或是本质组织，这些部分可以被石化

In Jing’Zhong’Ting or Pavilion of Loyalty and Patriotism outside Yue Fei’s tomb, there are on display a few sections of a fossilized cypress known as the Loyal and Patriotic cypress

岳墓门外“精忠亭”内，有几段树干化石，称为“精忠柏”。

That creature is now giving important information about ancient plant-eating dinosaurs. Scientists reported recently that fossilized contents of the creature’s stomach were found along with its skeleton.

该生物现在提供了有关古代食草恐龙的重要信息。科学家最近报告称发现了该生物的骨架以及胃部的化石。

He helped examine more than 100 fossilized teeth. Only seven teeth had evidence of the plague bacterium Y. pestis. These teeth came from remains dating between 2,900 and 4,800 years ago. This suggests that back then, the bacterium did not spread as easily as it did later.

他帮助检查了超过100颗牙齿化石。只有7颗牙齿存在鼠疫耶尔森氏菌。这些牙齿来自于2900年前到4800年前之间的遗骨。这表明当时细菌并不像后来传播得那么快。

Within the fossilized teeth, the researchers found the bacterium that causes Bubonic Plague. It proves the plague was around 4,800 years ago.

在牙齿化石中，研究人员发现了引发腺鼠疫的细菌。这证明鼠疫在4800年左右就已经存在。

Coprolites -- hunks of fossilized poop -- can reveal the diets and behaviors of ancient animals, but this one is plain weird.

粪化石——石化了的粪块——可以显示出远古动物的食性和行为特征，但是这个化石简直就是怪异地可以。

The mostly intact fossilized forest (the tip of a tree fern frond) is a "spectacular discovery, " paleobotanists say.

古植物学家认为，这片几乎完好无损的化石森林（图为数蕨的叶子尖）是一次“叹为观止的发现”。

Amber is the fossilized resin of ancient pines and cypresses.

琥珀是古代松柏树脂的化石。

The scientists also analyzed fossilized bone collections from ancient hominid sites in Spain, the U. K. and the Caucasus region.

科学家们还分析了从西班牙、英国和高加索地区的古人类遗址处出土的骨骼化石。

Some, if split and polished, as the Victorians loved to do, will reveal fossilized stems and exoskeletons.

如果弄裂开或是抛光这些鹅卵石，就像维多利亚女王喜欢做的那样，会发现有植物茎干的化石和动物的外骨骼。

In the late 1960s, a fossilized dinosaur skeleton from Montana began to undermine that assumption.

上世纪六十年代晚期，在蒙大拿发掘出的一块恐龙骨骼化石开始否定了上述推测。

The tiny, delicate skeletons are usually scattered by scavengers or destroyed by weathering before they can be fossilized .

微小纤细的骨骼通常在石化前就被食腐肉的动物拆散了，或者被风化作用破坏掉了。

The fossilized remains also show the creatures formed buds that grew into full-sized animals, something that coral and sponges do today.

现存的化石还可以看出，这种生物还能否长芽，然后长成完整的动物。今天的珊瑚和海绵也以这种方式繁殖。

Researchers had tried to study the fossilized mite before, but they couldn’t see it clearly through the amber.

研究者曾试图研究这块螨虫化石，但他们不能再琥珀中清楚地观察它。

A piece of fossilized resin from Burma yielded something that looked very similar to Saccharomyces, brewer’s or baker’s yeast.

一块来自缅甸的树脂化石中培育出了一种非常接近酵母——就是酿酒者和面包师傅用的那种酵母——的微生物。

Because it was underwater 30 million years ago, the cave is made from limestone composed of fossilized shells, skeletons and coral.

因为3亿年前山洞是在水底的，山洞总的石灰石里有许多的贝壳，骨骼和珊瑚化石。

One reason they thought that is because a fossilized skeleton of an ancient fish didn’t appear to have any fingers.

原因之一就是古代鱼类的化石骨骼看似没有手指——至少在胸鳍上没有明显的趾结构。

That means there are a lot of coal mines working overtime to pull the fossilized fuel out of the Earth.

这就意味着将会有很多的长时间的采煤活动，将化石燃料从地底挖出。

By the looks of it, the fossilized foot impressions seem identical to the ones we make when walking across the sand.

这些脚印的迹象，看来与我们现在走过沙滩时留下的足迹是一样的。

It started with a chunk of fossilized resin from the Dominican Republic.

这要从来自多米尼加共和国的一块树脂化石切片说起。

fossilized dune

n.古沙丘,石化沙丘

fossilized brine

n.化石卤水,原生水

fossilized connate water

n.化石卤水,原生水