Printing Dinosaurs: the Mad Science of New Paleontology

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In February, Dr. Lacovara had announced that the Paleontology department at Drexel would team up with the Engineering department for what would largely be a novel new project: scanning all of the fossils in the University’s collection (including some previously unidentified dinosaurs of Lacovara’s own finds in other parts of the world) using a 3D scanner. The Engineering department would then take those scans and use a 3D printer to create 1/10 scale models of the most important bones. But, he reported, that wouldn’t be the end of it: they intended, he said, to use those scale polymer “printouts” to model and then engineer fully working limbs, complete with musculature — to create, in effect, a fully accurate robotic dinosaur leg or arm, and eventually, a complete dinosaur.

I love living in the future!

We all will love living in the future. UNTIL WE ARE EATEN BY ROBOT DINOSAURS THAT IS.

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    Um this is incredibly cool.

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    Holy shit, this is AWESOME.

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    We all will love living in the future. UNTIL WE ARE EATEN BY ROBOT DINOSAURS THAT IS.

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    This is how Jurassic Park starts. Do you remember? The third one. They 3D printing the raptor vocal chord thing. And we...

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    You know, like what they did in Jurassic Park #3.

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