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Picture: 3D Imaging Brings 50 Million-Year-Old Spider to Glorious Life

blog.wired.com — Medical researchers typically use Very High Resolution X-Ray Computed Tomography to compose three-dimensional images of soft tissue. The technique is especially useful for studying cancer, allowing tumors to be modeled in incredible detail. So what happens when you unleash VHR-CT on, say, a 50 million-year-old fossilized spider?

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  • rac1234, on 11/02/2007, -1/+4Fascinating - but a shame to see the comments beneath the article descend into an unintelligent discussion of "intelligent design". Let's try to do better than that here.
    • foxhaze, on 11/02/2007, -1/+4I've had enough of your "scientist" types, bringing your "logic" 'n ***** to intelligent conversations. Get off my planet.
  • gwhardyiv, on 11/02/2007, -1/+2Would be a lot better if the spider had thumbs or fins or something. This just looks like a spider.
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