Geek Out on Some Amazing 3D Models of Vertebrate Species
CT scans can also reveal stomach contents of species / Florida Museum of Natural History / Ed Stanley
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On September 1, launched a $2.5 million project called “Open Exploration of Vertebrate Diversity in 3D” or as many scientists know it – the “scan-all-vertebrates” project.
Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, spearheaded by the University of Florida and main researcher David Blackburn, a herpetologist at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville, the project will be a collaboration between 16 universities and museums across the U.S. and will continue for four years. The result will be a free and open online database of 3-D scans revealing the internal anatomy of more than 20,000 vertebrate species.
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