3D Printing and Scanning Used to Uncover Newly Discovered Extinct Crocodilian

3D Printing has gone towards plenty of great uses, especially in the medical field. However now, you can add Paleontologist work to the ever expanding list of uses. Researchers in Dallas have used 3D printing and scanning to help put together fossils of a newly discovered crocodilian. It allowed them to take bones of different sizes and scale/enlarge them in order to help create a full skeleton. Read more on this story at: http://3dprint.com/16097/extinct-cro...n-3d-printing/

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Well written, Eddie. Nice piece. :)

Oh great! Just what the world needs - another crocodile. Send in the tourists!!!

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