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Portable laser scanning technology allows researchers to tote a fossil discovery from field to lab in the form of digital data on a laptop. Paleontologists at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, field-scanned a Texas dinosaur track left by a large three-toed, bipedal, meat-eating dinosaur, most likely the theropod Acrocanthosaurus depicted in this Karen Carr illustration. Back at their lab, the researchers created an exact 3-D facsimile to scale. They share their findings -- and their downloadable 145-megabyte digital model -- in Palaeontologia Electronica.
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