Portable 3-D Laser Technology Preserves Texas Dinosaur's Rare Footprint
Thursday, November 5, 2009 - 00:14
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Using portable 3-D laser technology, scientists have electronically preserved a rare 110 million-year-old fossilized dinosaur footprint excavated in 1933, and built into the wall of a bandstand at a Texas courthouse. The laser image preserves an original track used to describe a species of dinosaur identified in 1935 as ichnospecies Eubrontes glenrosensis.