Paleo-Technology Laboratory

Paleo-Technology is both a laboratory and a program where we generate information to analyze form, function, and spatial relationships of everything from dinosaur bones and skeletons to geological outcrops.  Using X-ray, and a variety of 3-Dimensional scanners we have the capability of analyzing specimens as small as individual teeth, or as large as the Museum of the Rockies building.  Computerized tomographic (CAT-Scan) data is acquired from outside sources, particularly from the Bozeman Deaconess Hospital, and processed with special software.

Creating a 3-D image of a baby hadrosaur tibia using a NextEngine Desktop 3-D scanner.  The completed scan, used together with animation software is allowing a student to study how baby duck-billed dinosaurs walked.