dinosaurs
CT Scanning & 3D Printing Could Reveal New Dinosaur Species Inside Opalized Fossil
In order to get a closer look at, and learn more about creatures that died long ago, like dinosaurs, researchers and historians have turned to 3D printing and 3D scanning…
Cretaceous Bird Fossil: Researchers Use 3D Technologies to Reveal Beak Developments
An international team of researchers led by Ohio University (OU) Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine Professor Patrick O’Connor announced the discovery of a Late Cretaceous crow-sized stem bird from Madagascar…
3D Scanning a Stegosaurus with Help From Artec 3D
All 50 US states have a state bird and a state flower, but only eight states have an official state dinosaur. Colorado is one of them, which makes it pretty…
3D Printing Keeps a Head on Dippy the Dinosaur’s Shoulders
Standing at 25 to 30 meters long and weighing approximately 16 tons, the gargantuan Diplodocus carnegii dinosaur roamed the Earth during the Jurassic period, masticating vegetation that had been stripped…
Dinosaur Fossil’s Secrets Unlocked Through 3D Scanning and 3D Printing
200 million years ago, South Africa was home to an herbivorous (though possibly omnivorous at one point) dinosaur called Massospondylus. It stood on two legs and was about 4-6 meters…
Robot with 3D Printed Flippers Helps to Solve a Plesiosaur Puzzle
Over 200 million years ago, during the Triassic period, plesiosaurs first appeared in the ocean. The swimming, flippered reptiles lived for several million years, until the mass extinction that wiped…
Australian Exhibit Will Allow Users to Meet a Dinosaur in the Virtual World, Then Examine Its 3D Printed Counterpart
If movies have taught me anything, one of the most important lessons may have come from Jurassic Park: just because you can do something doesn’t mean that you should, and…
Weekly Roundup: Ten 3D Printable Things – Awesome, Cool and Gross Cookie Cutters
Now that Halloween is officially over, we find ourselves on the verge of entering Christmas cookie season, so what better way to help you all bake the coolest and most…
Letting Dinosaurs Roam in their Natural Habitats with 3D Technology
It is hard to find anybody who didn’t find dinosaurs interesting at least at some point, whether a passing fancy as a child or a lifelong career as a paleontologist,…
Jurassic Park 3D Printed Chess Set Pits T-Rex Against Stegosaurus
The popularization of 3D printing has led to the development of a vast number of chess sets with all sorts of figures from the abstract to the adorable. Recently, Guilhem Cano contributed…
3D Printing Full-Sized Dinosaurs for a Museum — Not a problem for Deep in the Heart Art Foundry
There is something about dinosaurs that is fascinating to just about anyone. Whether it’s the fact that these creatures stood so large for so long and then somehow almost all…
130,000 lbs Dinosaur, Dreadnoughtus, 3D Scanned, and Miniature Versions Being 3D Printed
Q: How do you study a 130,000-pound dinosaur? A: Any way it wants you to. We have seen numerous ways in which 3D technology has assisted in the research, documentation,…
