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Title: Looking Inside a Tyrannosaur’s Skull

Abstract

Researchers using Los Alamos’ unique neutron-imaging and high-energy X-ray capabilities have exposed the inner structures of the fossil skull of a 74-million-year-old tyrannosauroid dinosaur nicknamed the Bisti Beast in the highest-resolution scan of tyrannosaur skull ever done.

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Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1375211
Resource Type:
Multimedia
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; 47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION; LANL; FOSSIL; BISTI BEAST; TYRANNOSAUROID; SKULL; X-RAY; CT SCAN; NEUTRON COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; LANSCE

Citation Formats

Vogel, Sven, Nelson, Ron, Williamson, Tom, Espy, Michelle, Schroeder, Kat, and Hunter, James. Looking Inside a Tyrannosaur’s Skull. United States: N. p., 2017. Web.
Vogel, Sven, Nelson, Ron, Williamson, Tom, Espy, Michelle, Schroeder, Kat, & Hunter, James. Looking Inside a Tyrannosaur’s Skull. United States.
Vogel, Sven, Nelson, Ron, Williamson, Tom, Espy, Michelle, Schroeder, Kat, and Hunter, James. Tue . "Looking Inside a Tyrannosaur’s Skull". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1375211.
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abstractNote = {Researchers using Los Alamos’ unique neutron-imaging and high-energy X-ray capabilities have exposed the inner structures of the fossil skull of a 74-million-year-old tyrannosauroid dinosaur nicknamed the Bisti Beast in the highest-resolution scan of tyrannosaur skull ever done.},
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journal = {},
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place = {United States},
year = {2017},
month = {8}
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