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The fossil record can tell us a lot about the species that came before us; how they lived, who their ancestors were, and what their time on this planet may have looked like. But what can we learn when we take an even closer look?[br][br]We’re all familiar with the giant skeletons on display in museums across the world, and while we can learn a lot from them, there’s a lot more information waiting to be discovered inside of those bones.[br][br][br]
[br]This is an image from inside the fossilized frill of a triceratops. After painstaking hours of slicing the bone to the thickness of a human hair, and placing it under a high powered microscope we not only get this stunning, up-close picture of a fossil but with the right training, scientists are able to “read” these images to learn so much more about the animal.[br][br]The Museum of the Rockies Paleohistology Lab one of the few places in the world where research like this is performed. Their collection of over 2,200 thin-sliced slides of fossil specimens gives paleontologists the opportunity to study dinosaur physiology and behavior at a microscopic level.[br][br][br][br] |
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发表于 2019-04-13 13:53:14
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