Scientists could be accidentally damaging fossils with a method we thought was safe

By Adjunct Senior Researcher at Griffith University and La Trobe University and Ramón y Cajal Senior Research Fellow Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana CENIEH; Laura Martín-Francés Mathieu Duval Monash University PalaeoDiet Research Lab Postdoctoral Fellow

Scientists could be accidentally damaging fossils with a method we thought was safe

A common scanning method used to create ‘virtual copies’ of precious fossils could be erasing some of the crucial information held within.

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