Fattysaurus or thinnysaurus? How dinosaurs measure up with laser imaging
Thursday, February 19, 2009 - 16:21
in Paleontology & Archaeology
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Manchester scientists are using laser imaging to investigate how fat - or fit - T. rex and his fellow dinosaurs were.Karl Bates and his colleagues in the palaeontology and biomechanics research group have reconstructed the bodies of five dinosaurs, two T. rex (Stan at the Manchester Museum and the Museum of the Rockies cast MOR555), an Acrocanthosaurus atokensis, a Strutiomimum sedens and an Edmontosaurus annectens.