Prehistoric and Frightening Mollusk Recreated With 3-D Printer Fear not, the little guy was only about an inch long. Thus spiky ball of molluscian doom was reconstructed using CT-like scans of a 390 million-year-old fossil, and then constructed on a 3-D printer. How did they pick the colors? By comparing them to their modern-day relatives. I think it would make a great desk decoration, paleontologist or not. (via National Geographic)
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Prehistoric and Frightening Mollusk Recreated With 3-D Printer

Fear not, the little guy was only about an inch long. Thus spiky ball of molluscian doom was reconstructed using CT-like scans of a 390 million-year-old fossil, and then constructed on a 3-D printer.

How did they pick the colors? By comparing them to their modern-day relatives. I think it would make a great desk decoration, paleontologist or not.

(via National Geographic)

Source: National Geographic

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