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May 10, 2005

Baby-Faced King Tut?

It almost sounds like an X-File, how modern technology is being used to give us a new perspective on an ancient time. Forensic artists and scientists are using facial reconstruction to determine not only if those bones found along the highway belong to some poor soul on a milk carton, now we can know something of what King Tut might have looked like.

a baby-faced young man with chubby cheeks and a round chin

More at: CT scans reveal King Tut's face - Science - MSNBC.com

I find it fascinating the types of jobs that are leveraged in certain fields. For example, the use of sculptors in paleontology has been around for quite a while, but now that we've got some soft, fleshy tissue of a dinosaur - a T-Rex no less - to play with AND some of the first dino eggs in the womb discovered. Who knows what new vocations will be sucked in?

A Tyrannosaurus rex fossil has yielded what appear to be the only preserved soft tissues ever recovered from a dinosaur. Taken from a 70-million-year-old thighbone, the structures look like the blood vessels, cells, and proteins involved in bone formation.

More at:
National Geographic News: T. Rex Soft Tissue Found Preserved

Scientists have discovered for the first time a dinosaur with shelled eggs inside her belly. The find yields insight into how dinosaurs made babies and supports the theory that modern birds and dinosaurs are close relatives.

More at: National Geographic News: Dinosaur Eggs Discovered Inside Mother -- A First

Posted by sorsha at May 10, 2005 4:50 PM