300 Million Year Old Insects Pictured In 3D

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @04:50AM from the xray-vision-googles dept.

New mareacaspica writes with this snippet from Nature: "Researchers have constructed 3D models of two different insects, in their nymph stage by scanning their fossils with a novel technique called X-ray microtomography. They obtained sections, two centimeters long, and from the sections constructed the models. Such fossils of juvenile insects are very rare during that ancient period, and the research could provide a better understanding not only of insects, but also other animals, as the technique develops." Original Paper.

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300 Million Year Old Insects Pictured In 3D by Anne_Nonymous · 2012-09-26 05:00 · Score: 2

Doesn't look a day over 150 million years.
1. Re:300 Million Year Old Insects Pictured In 3D by MaskedSlacker · 2012-09-26 09:05 · Score: 2
  
  You must be great at parties.
Found an apt quote, given this thing's appearance by Empiric · 2012-09-26 05:06 · Score: 3, Interesting

When you see your likeness, you are pleased. But when you see your images that came into existence before you, which neither die nor become manifest, how much you will have to bear!

--Darwin

Oh wait...

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~ Whence do you come, slayer of men, or where are you going, conqueror of space?