MUSE: No one knows what dinosaurs really looked like as they stomped or scurried through ancient jungles. But scientists armed with a 3D printer and robot technology plan to unearth the answers about how dinosaurs moved. How? Easy—they’ll build their own.

“The truth is that no paleontologist in the world knows precisely how to put together a dinosaur skeleton.” That’s Kenneth Lacovara, a paleontologist at Drexel University in Pennsylvania. He wants to get closer to the answer by building dinosaur replicas from the inside out, from bones to ligaments to muscles. Read more.


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