How The AMNH Is Using 3D Printing To Copy Dinosaur Bones

How The AMNH Is Using 3D Printing To Copy Dinosaur Bones

You’re a high school science teacher and your class is learning about dinosaurs. You can’t exactly run to the local dino bone barn and buy some bargain bones for them to see first-hand. But what if you had access to a 3D printer? Enter the American Museum of Natural History’s education department, which is experimenting with scanning and printing bones.

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Inside a Lethal Exhibit Dedicated to the Power of Poison

Inside a Lethal Exhibit Dedicated to the Power of Poison

Poison can be a curse, a killer, and even a medicine—an alchemical substance that appears in everything from myth to literature. You might not think of poison as being this multifaceted, but that’s exactly what the American Museum of Natural History’s new exhibit—The Power of Poison—delightfully urges you to do.

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AMNH 3D-Printing Camp: Let’s Make Some Dinos

AMNH 3D-Printing Camp: Let's Make Some Dinos

At the American Museum of Natural History’s two-week camp Capturing Dinosaurs: Reconstructing Extinct Species Through Digital Fabrication, a group of teens learned the processes and tools used by paleontologists for studying dinosaur bones and digitally reconstructing them. And we got to tag along for some of it.

AMNH 3D-Printing Camp: Let's Make Some Dinos

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An Awesome 1940s Photo of Making a Cast of a Giant Fish

We don’t know much about this photo snapped in 1940. It shows Ludwig Ferraglio making a cast of a fish called Acrotus Willoughbyi but that’s about all we know. More »

The American Museum of Natural History Updated the Lighting in this Wolf Diorama to be Moon-Realistic [Video]

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