Images of 300 million old insects revealed
Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - 18:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
This shows the spiney-type insect. Writing in the journal PLoS One, the scientists have used a high resolution form of CT scanning to reconstruct two 305-million year old juvenile insects. Without the pioneering approach to imaging, these tiny insects – which are three-dimensional holes in a rock – would have been impossible to study.