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02-22-2016, 11:45 PM
Step up your home decor game and 3D print an ancient human skull
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Ever felt like cranking up your 3D printer and making fossil recreations suitable for living room décor?
**w you can, thanks to a free website under the auspices of Duke University that allows registered users to peruse a library of some 9,000 digital scans of fossils uploaded to the site from scientists at more than 70 institutions.
SEE ALSO: New tiny-brained human found in South African cave (http://news.discovery.com/human/evolution/new-tiny-brained-human-found-in-south-african-cave-150910.htm)
The site, MorphoSource (http://morphosource.org/), was created by Duke assistant professor Doug Boyer, and the university calls it the "largest and most open digital fossil repository of its kind." Just this month it an**unced the addition of more than 400 skulls and other bones from 59 species of apes, lemurs, and monkeys. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/02/22/3d-print-ancient-human-skull/)
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Ever felt like cranking up your 3D printer and making fossil recreations suitable for living room décor?
**w you can, thanks to a free website under the auspices of Duke University that allows registered users to peruse a library of some 9,000 digital scans of fossils uploaded to the site from scientists at more than 70 institutions.
SEE ALSO: New tiny-brained human found in South African cave (http://news.discovery.com/human/evolution/new-tiny-brained-human-found-in-south-african-cave-150910.htm)
The site, MorphoSource (http://morphosource.org/), was created by Duke assistant professor Doug Boyer, and the university calls it the "largest and most open digital fossil repository of its kind." Just this month it an**unced the addition of more than 400 skulls and other bones from 59 species of apes, lemurs, and monkeys. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/02/22/3d-print-ancient-human-skull/)
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