… For all the digging of dinosaur fossils, all the magnificent reconstructions in museums and all the research that has been devoted to them, the great beasts remain mostly a mystery to us, and paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara of Drexel University in Philadelphia says our ways of studying them have not changed much in 150 years.
Lacovara says he aims to change that. In his lab, he and James Tangorra, a mechanical engineer at Drexel, have been scanning dinosaur bones with lasers, hoping to apply the new technology of 3-D printing to these ancient specimens….
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