Found in some French amber, this fossil spider could be seen with the eye, but details through the golden blurry sap were more than a little hard to make out. Now through the use of a method called ‘Very High Resolution X-Ray Computed Tomography’ (VHR-CT) the researchers were able to "digitally dissect" it, revealing details at a previously unattainable level of resolution. First developed for medical applications, these new visualization techniques are finding all sort of uses as powerful tools in other fields of inquiry...
The article:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071029083230.htm
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