Tag: 3D
-
Video for ESCONI October 2025 Paleontology Study Group Meeting – “Creating 3D Digital Models for Paleontology”
The October 2025 Paleontology Study Group Meeting will be held on October 18th, 2025 at 7:30 via Zoom. The topic is “Creating 3D Digital Models for Paleontology”. It will be presented byShellie Luallin. Shellie Luallin will be presenting “Creating 3D Digital Models for Paleontology”. 3D models increasingly appear in the digital realm – in TV…
-
ESCONI October 2025 Paleontology Study Group Meeting – October 18th, 2025 at 7:30 PM via Zoom – “Creating 3D Digital Models for Paleontology”
The October 2025 Paleontology Study Group Meeting will be held on October 18th, 2025 at 7:30 via Zoom. The topic is “Creating 3D Digital Models for Paleontology”. It will be presented by Shellie Luallin. Shellie Luallin will be presenting “Creating 3D Digital Models for Paleontology”. 3D models increasingly appear in the digital realm – in…
-
Apex predator of the Cambrian likely sought soft over crunchy prey
Phys.org has a story about one of the largest predators of the Cambrian Period. Anomalocaris canadensis, which means “weird shrimp from Canada”, was first discovered in the 1800’s in fossil deposits around Mt. Stephen in British Columbia. Until the discovery of the Burgess Shale, the front appendages and body fossils were thought to be separate…
-
Never-before-seen ammonite muscles revealed in 3D from Jurassic fossil
Phys.org has a story about an amazing ammonite fossil. The 165 million year old fossil has revealed never-before-seen soft body detail in an ammonite. It was found about 20 years ago in Gloucestershire, UK. Researchers at Cardiff University and Imperial College London, who published their study in the journal Geology, found evidence of muscles and…
-
‘Cthulhu’ fossil reconstruction reveals monstrous relative of modern sea cucumbers
This is a 3D reconstruction of Sollasina cthulhu. Tube feet are shown in different colors. Credit: Imran Rahman, Oxford University Museum of Natural History ScienceDaily has a story about an ancestor of modern sea cucumbers. The animal, called Sollasine cthulhu, lived 430 million years ago during the Silurian Period in what is now Herefordshire in…
-
3-D Printing of Dinosaur Bones
Via ABC News (Feb 22) … 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…
