Last fall, scientists announced the discovery of a new species of early human, Homo naledi, deep in an underground cave in South Africa. The ancient fossils remain locked away in Johannesburg, but now ...

In the last ten years, faster 3-D scanning and cheaper digital storage have made it possible to scan thousands of bones in a matter of weeks. Numerous institutions have rushed to scan and digitize ...

Browse the exhibits in your nearest natural history museum and you will find a medley of different specimens, from contemporary insects to extinct species, microscopic organisms, and even ...

A scanned image of the skeleton of the world’s most endangered marine animal, the vaquita, is now available on MorphoSource, a publicly accessible data archive. (Photo courtesy of Jennifer Crespo) The ...

At MorphoSource.org, playing with fossils is not only allowed, it’s encouraged. The online database is home to oodles of digital 3-D scans of bones from both extinct and modern-day creatures. Anyone ...

A new database offers access to over 6,000 3D scans of primate skeletons housed in the American Museum of Natural History, Stony Brook University, the National Museum of Natural History, the Cleveland ...