3D printing helps scientists study ancient creature trilobites

3D printing technology is more and more widely used in life. They are not only used in medical, industrial manufacturing, scientific research, etc., but also play an immeasurable role in archaeology. Recently, University of Chicago scientist Alan Drummond used such a method to reproduce an extinct ancient prehistoric species: trilobite. This is a marine amputation that lived 270 million years ago. In order to be closer to the extinction organism than pictures, books and fossils, they decided to collect large amounts of data to visualize the anatomy of the trilobites and eventually sort out them. 3D printing model.