Examples of using Fossilised in English and their translations into Chinese
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After clambering over fossilised lava flows at 9,000ft, we duck into vegetation, my guide slashing his machete through tendrils that grip your legs like lassoes.
A case in point: this past summer, a group of club palaeontologists were in Mongolia's Gobi Desert hunting for fossilised dinosaur remains using drone scanners.
The Canadian-American palaeontologist, Elizabeth Nicholls, overcame numerous obstacles to extract the fossilised remains of a 220-million-year-old, giant marine reptile in a remote region of Canada.
Researchers suspect it initially fossilised whole, but when it was found in 2011, only the front half, from the snout to the hips.
Rice cultivation: In 2002, a Chinese and Japanese group reported the discovery in eastern China of fossilised phytoliths of domesticated rice apparently dating back to 11,900 BC or earlier.
The elegance of Hayez, the genius of Michelangelo, the harmony of Botticelli are not fossilised into museums and churches, they come alive in our homes.
As author Bill Bryson notes in his book A Short History of Nearly Everything, only an estimated one bone in a billion gets fossilised.
How could you become fossilised?
I thought it was obviously a fossilised sea creature, possibly an ichthyosaur.
Modern paleontologists, working from fossilised remains, have named such a creature Pterodactyl.
However, unlike other animals, the fossilised remnants are unusually few and far between.
Scientists identify fossilised blubber from an ancient marine reptile that lived 180 million years ago.
The fossilised footprints were discovered by a team of scientists studying trackways and burrows in China.
It features the fossilised remains of an ancient coral reef, and beaches untouched by development.
There is plenty to keep the kids entertained, including digitally erupting volcanoes and fossilised dinosaur bones.
Studying their evolutionary roots is tricky, though: the delicacy of flowers means they rarely become fossilised.
There are many things to capture your imagination at Curio Bay, including dolphins, penguins and fossilised trees.
Fossilised dinosaur eggs were discovered nearby, which is why there is an open air dinosaur museum in the town.
The study found that goethite in St Oswald's Bay hosted many microbes as well as traces of their fossilised organic remains.
We knew it was special because you could clearly see the fossilised teeth.