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Everybody walk the dinosaur

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Laura Marshall, Managing Editor, [email protected]

It’s not exactly Jurassic Park, but it’s still pretty cool: Laser scans and computer modeling are now giving the human race a chance to watch one of the biggest dinosaurs in action. The digital reconstruction has enabled the gigantic Argentinosaurus to take its first steps in more than 94 million years. The dinosaur in question now resides, so to speak, at Carmen Funes Museum in Plaza Huincul, Argentina. A team from The University of Manchester in England, working with scientists in Argentina, laser-scanned the dinosaur’s 40-m-long skeleton and used advanced computer...Read full article

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    Published: January 2014
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    scanning
    The successive analysis or synthesizing of the light values or other similar characteristics of the components of a picture area, following a given method.
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