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The notion of using fossilized dead forests to prevent the destruction of living forests and all that they hold, is apt.

用煤炭这种已死树木的化石来防止对现有森林及其相关生态系统的破坏，这是非常聪明的想法。

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。

Previous studies have looked at the movements of birds the direct descendents of dinosaurs and fossilized footprints to judge how tyrannosaurus rex would have moved.

以往的研究都是去看恐龙的直接后裔鸟类的行动，还有化石脚印，从而判断出霸王龙暴龙是如何行动。