Computers, 3-D printers aid dinosaur study

UPI Wednesday 22nd February, 2012

Computer scans and 3-D printing will yield clues to how dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals moved and lived in their environments, U.S. researchers say. Paleontologists at Drexel University in Philadelphia say the technology can create accurate scale models of real fossils to test hypotheses about how dinosaurs moved. "Technology in paleontol...

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