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Tango01 | 09 Jul 2014 12:44 p.m. PST |
in a 3-D Scanner. "Newly released 3-D images of two mummified baby mammoths provide a window into the lives and deaths of creatures that roamed Siberia over 40,000 years ago. Details in the x-ray scans have let researchers look at things like the specimens' bone structures, causes of death, and even how healthy they were before they died. By comparing the specimens to each other, to other mammoths, and to their only living cousins—elephants—researchers have added a lot to what we know about mammoths. Computed tomography (CT) scanning uses millions of ultra-thin x-ray slices to build 3-D models of solid objects. The scans tell scientists how solid objects are put together without having to take them apart. The donut-shaped machines are relatively common in hospitals, and there are some veterinary machines that can do full-body scans of dolphins and small whales. But the size and shape of a mammoth with its limbs frozen in place, even a baby one, means it can't be safely fit into machines designed for long, thin, living things
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