To improve their online visuals and connect a number of museum collections, the British Geological Service launched the first database of 3D fossils last week. As often the only remnant we have from ...

It’s a decidedly 21st-century technology, but now 3D printing is being harnessed to highlight mesmerizing relics from the ancient past. A new web database out of the UK is offering users anywhere in ...

The cracked and broken bones of a 1.8-million-year-old crocodile, elephant and giant tortoise are now recorded in meticulous detail, thanks to cutting-edge 3D scanners. When the bones were discovered ...

HANGZHOU, China, Oct. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- A skeleton of a juvenile dinosaur from the early Jurassic period, around 190 million years ago, was discovered in September in Lufeng, Yunnan Province, ...

Iowa State's MakerBot Replicator printing the Earth on Oct. 28 during the Geological Society of America meeting in Denver. Whether they're cracking open rocks or scanning tiny changes in topography, ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — For the past six years, Dr. Bernard Means has worked in VCU’s Virtual Curation Library bringing history to life with scanners and 3D printers. On Tuesday, Means was scanning the ...

In April of this year, I headed out to a marl pit in Clayton, New Jersey to watch a team of Drexel University students and their teacher, Professor Kenneth Lacovara, dig for fossils. Marl, a lime-rich ...

Whether they're cracking open rocks or scanning tiny changes in topography, geologists already work in three dimensions. But one of the most popular attractions at the Geological Society of America's ...

Last fall, scientists announced the discovery of a new species of early human, Homo naledi, deep in an underground cave in South Africa. The ancient fossils remain locked away in Johannesburg, but now ...

Whether they're cracking open rocks or scanning tiny changes in topography, geologists already work in three dimensions. But one of the most popular attractions at the Geological Society of America's ...

Fossils are a marvel to behold. Coils of shell, lines of bone, spreading branches of a plant -- these are the records of the lives that once graced our planet, a reminder that our moment is not only ...