The third-person singular form: turns into a fossil or makes something rigidly unchanged.
From fossilize + -s (marking third-person singular present tense). Standard English verb conjugation rules.
When a paleontologist says 'this organism fossilizes easily,' they mean its body plan is so sturdy that many specimens survive the harsh process of becoming stone—which is why we have thousands of trilobite fossils!
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