famous dinosaur chase reconstructed in 3-d（英語學習）

1、Famous Dinosaur Chase Reconstructed in 3-D（英語學習） （英語學習）A British research team has used 3-D imaging to reconstruct the entire route of the most famous fossilized dinosaur tracks ever, a so-called chase scene that was bro

2、ken up and its pieces put into museums nearly 70 years ago.Our story begins along a riverbed, about 120 million years ago in the age of the big dinosaurs. A large meat-eating three-toed theropod races close behind a long

3、-neck sauropod, perhaps hungry for his dinner. Their feet press into the mud as they run, and after millions of years their fossil footprints are discovered along the Paluxy River in Glen Rose, Texas.In 1940, those track

4、s were sent to museums but some were lost in transit.Peter Falkingham, with London’s Royal Veterinary College, and colleagues wanted to put the entire 45-meter long scene back together.“As you can imagine a really long t

5、rackway from a dinosaur tells a lot more than two or three steps do,” Falkingham said. The researchers used 17 photos and hand-drawn maps from Roland T. “What we have done here, as far as I can tell for the first time, i

6、s reconstruct something that does not exist anymore, at least in that form and that is pretty exciting because museums hold tens of thousands of specimens and inevitably some get lost and damaged,” he said.Falkingham say

7、s with photo documentation, what can follow are 3-D images and even 3-D printing to create the objects to study both physically and digitally. But, for now if people want to see that famous dino chase from 120 million ye