A 3D visualisation of a microCT dataset of fossil starfish in an ancient sea bed
Channel: GigaScience Press
Date: 02/01/2019

Here we've generated a 3D visualisation of a microCT dataset of fossil starfish in an 400-million year old ancient sea bed.

Music credits: "Truth in the Stones" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), CC-BY.

Read the research: Reid M et al. A micro X-ray computed tomography dataset of fossil echinoderms in an ancient obrution bed: a robust method for taphonomic and palaeoecologic analyses. Gigascience. 2018 doi: 10.1093/gigascience/giy156.
https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giy156

Data available for download from the GigaScience Database. http://dx.doi.org/10.5524/100539

3D printer versions from Thingiverse here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3233744

https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giy156