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X-raying fossils has been around for a long while. It's an old technology but all we had in years gone by. A colleague had a complete baby plesiosaur we found together, that was encased in a 4' x 4' x 6'' slab, x-rayed some 35 years ago. It showed both the skin (body) outline around the bone and the head attached. Very (very!) useful to know before prepping. X-rays don't do 3D output but CD scans will. If you find another penguin or reptile fossilised in shale (when the remains are compressed between sediment - Lias style), I suggest an x-ray as a possible means of identifying any preserved soft tissue residues. It certainly worked for us in the UK. I'm less confident about finding soft tissue remains in phosphatic nodules. Perhaps preservation of remains under anaerobic conditions would help to prevent predation and decomposition of soft tissues?

I laughed hard at the structural crab! 😂

It's amazing to me that the CT scanner can distinguish the fossilized crab from the surrounding rock. The printing technology is so cool! Thank you for sharing this fantastic process!

this is awesome. im glad i found your channel a while ago🤙🏻

Incredible!!!! Printing out the fossil that's IN the rock!!!!

This was awesome to watch, happy to have tuned in! Looking forward for the next video, also I will show you as I said, how the sea urchins turn out.

This is fantastic,it will never get old watching you reveal fossils,virtual or actual.

This is just friggin amazing! I can't believe so many crabs formed into rock

Awesome that you can look before prep...going to help you emencly

This is so cool! Thanks for sharing with us!

Fascinating, thanks for sharing... more please ❤

That. Is. So. Cool!! The whole process is fascinating. Thank you for sharing it with us.

Things keep evolving into crabs.

Here is an million dollar idea, a hand-held x-ray thingamajig that we can bring to beaches and scan every rock we walk pass.

Isn't that wonderful! Now begins the painstaking process of exposing this very old fellow at least vicariously to light once again after all the eons he's spent trapped in stone.

i would leave it like it is, displaying the rock with the crab on top with a plaque "this crab is inside this rock" way more interesting and conversational

Literally just found your channel, immediately I can see you need your own x-ray machine! Amazing.

Extraordinary, spectacular video! Thanks for sharing this, made my week 👍👍😉⭐⭐

This whole process is so amazing. The 3D printing technology, both software and machine, seem miraculous to me. And that’s not counting the aspect that the subject is millions of years old and encased in solid rock you found on a beach! I hope the people in the radiology lab are enjoying this adventurous departure from people insides. With that wide smile of delight, I don’t have to wonder if you had fun with this. Thanks for sharing this unique experience.

Always enjoy looking inside those rocks with you.

Hi. It's amazing how tech allows non-invasive examinations of specimens like this. These techniques are used outside of paleology and in archaeology are so sophisticated that in some cases even texts can be read from artifacts that are far too fragile to be exposed. Thanks for the great videos - both entertaining and informative.

That was great. So glad I watched this. Thank you.

That is fantastic. Tech today is almost like magic to me. Thanks for sharing this.

Pulling a bird from thin air isn't magic. Making an accurate model of a creature fossilized in rock without seeing it is 🎩

Hey bro, this is way to cool. Next time I have a CT scan I’ll bring some concretions with me lol. The technology these days is pretty cool. Thanks for sharing man. Talk to you later

An awesome insight on how 3d printing works. Love to learn more about it. I definitly want to give it a try aswel some day. Just one of many projects for in the future.

Cool, even scientists don't always use tomography to study fossils👍

Fascinating science

Very cool mate! You have so much fun and your happiness is contagious! I have a fossil crab with insides. Is that rare? The carapace is missing on top and you can see the internal structures. A fun find in any case! Always enjoy your videos and its interesting to see the technology you use to assist your endeavours.

Your computer scanned magic kung fu is strong.

So cool! Can't wait for more1 Cheers! (from the Dallas, TX area, USA)

Fascinating. Loved that one.

It was really neat to see what was hidden inside - thank you for walking us through the process!

What an amazing way of finding out whats inside! And to make a 3d print out of, wow! We sure have come a long way the last 20 years

That is awesome, thanks for sharing this with us, nothing like the real thing, the 3D modeling is very cool also and you stay safe as well

Come on Malambo, with your expert IT knowledge, I thought you would have coupled the scanner information to a ruby lazer by know so you could put in x,y,z axis and lazer prepped a fossil in minutes by now 😊. Regards Richard 🇬🇧

Great video!

Very cool video!

Brilliant technology! Brilliant video! Thank you…

Imagine if the X-ray had 4k resolution.

I enjoyed this very much!

Technologies Is GREAT THINKS .(You have a Much Progress .) Congratulations !

Loved learning about this

This is so fascinating!

This is so cool. Petition to scan the entire Earth. 🦖🦕🦀🐧

Tech is amazing. Fun video

As always super cool. Be interesting to know if scanning can be booked and paid for and what the cost is.

Amazing non-invasive tools for looking inside rocks.

That's so cool sir thank you for sharing this with us six stars brother

3d model then CNC mill the bulk of material away? Epic time saver, this could be a fun proof of concept experiment?

Awesome. I always wanted to find fossil crabs. I had a buddy who had a site but he wouldn't share the site with me.

Mate that was awesome! Did it cost much to scan?

I have dozens of trilobites in matrix. A print of them with a bit of scaffold connecting them all would be interesting. It is quite soft, specimens including so I've not tried to prepare it.

I loved watching your 10x speed fossil prep video. I will subscribe if you do another. Would you could do it on this fossil?

That is so amazing! ❤

fascinating!

Very cool tech but you don't even need to prep fossils anymore... they took yer job!!!

That is perfect timing! I picked up a small concretion which has- what I think- a small skull sticking out. It has only like a 2cm diameter and I will be able to use a microCT machine of my university to scan it. Dou you have any advice regarding the beam power needed to get a nice scan on that scale? Also working and segmentating 3D CT and MRI scans is what I do part time, but mostly from wood related products, as that is what I am doing research about. If you ever want to have a very small fossil scanned you can hit me up and send it to germany, I should be able to provide a very detailed scan for you, our voxel size for a 2cm specimen is usually around 4 micrometers ;) All the best from Hamburg, Niklas

Amazing!

I love science and what technology can do.

Enjoyed this one... does the University charge you for using their CT scanner? I know from personal experience how expensive they are for us humans! Cheers!

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Awesomeness

That is simply amazing.

Awesome video! You might have mentioned this before in one of your videos, but how can you tell which way is up on the concretion and which way is the bottom of the crab? Without the xray.

awesome!

thats really cool!! I wonder if you could put one on like a printer setup but have it chip away alot of the waste rock for you lol save you alot of time

Cool

Magic!

До чего наука и технологии дошли. Здорово! Спасибо!

very cool - looks like what is needed is an AI stage to learn to discern matrix from fossil and the production of cheap, home scanning technology...

I also use blender cura and 3dpronting. What printer dyou use?

I love the care you take with the fossils. So much more satisfying than watching someone hit a rock with a hammer and hope for the best. Thanks for all of your hard work, it's appreciated. 👍💯✌🇨🇦♥️

Regarding organ conservation of fossil arthropods: the fossilized specimens are mostly hollow exuviae/moults. Exuviae are moulted over and over again during the lifetime of a single crab. Whereas it is comparatively rare that a crab just dies. Most of the time crabs are killed by predators. A crab killed by a predator is most likely consumed afterwards and doesn't get the chance to fossilize. Whereas exuviae are much more common and much less interesting for predators. Therefore, they fossilize easier. The carapaces of crabs are flipped open during the molting process but they often flip right back into place. Maybe you have noticed this already with recent exuviae on beaches.

Just out of curiosity, has Pacific Radiology ever offered the FOV, kVp and mA for their scans? (Field of View, kiloVolts(peak), and milliAmps) I wonder if I can get an Oral Surgeon colleague to let me run a few scans on their cone-bean machine when they have a day off... possibly. I should think about possible skills/equipment-to-trade.

that was fun

Super, man.

You know, since it's mostly intact and untouched, you could sell it as diy specimen as well.

When your perpairing the model to print, Why not rotate the model 90 degrees so it sets flat on the base plate and reduce your printing time ?

NOW show us the hard work of getting the crab out of the rock!

Probably a stupid question , but how did you initially know there was a fossil in it and it wasn't just a pebble? Do you routinely scan them after collection ?

This is so cool, haha.

what could be more cool! Thanks for sharing. Gobsmacked!

how much it cost for this x ray? I have a couole that i need to do. Also, where?

brilliant SO interesting 🐨🐨🦘🦘

Has this technique been used in the paleontology profession?

Will you sell me a printed copy of the crab?

FASCINATING 👩🏻‍🏫👵🏻🧔‍♂️🦀👏🏻🥰‼️

Computers and 3d printers is good , but is not news .Do You Open it ( stone ) ?( для сравнения результатов , как исследователю - не интересно ?) . This is more interesting , I think .Perfect! .

Not Xray then?

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Is handmake anological ?

One question why is everything found in sedimentary rock. There is profound evidence. All over the world. The Bible talks about a global. Flood that happened to the earth. I now it tends to to confound the science community. I used to be an evolutionist. Now I am not. But I’m not eregunt. Lemay