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    Future of Fossils: Print Your Own Dinosaur at Home?

    by Katie Jennings Apr 02, 2014 4 minutes

    A 3D printout of the Plateosaurus vertebra placed next to the (mislabeled) field jacket that contains the original fossilRene Schilling et al. / Radiology

    In 1898, the American Museum of Natural History was presented with a golden opportunity along with a challenge almost as significant. Paleontologist Walter Granger had returned from a trip to the West with an amazing find: a large set of fossilized bones from a 30-foot-tall, 80-foot-long dinosaur. (At the time the sauropod was known as Brontosaurus but later came to more accurately be called Apatosaurus.) The challenge was what to do with it.

    The museum preparators and exhibitors had to improvise. They devised a frame of “” to support the structure. Thebecame the first mounted sauropod dinosaur on display in the world.

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