Micro-CT lets scientists see telling 3D details in arthropod evolution

For the past five years, Prof Javier Ortega-Hernández and Prof. Yu Liu, Yunnan University, China have collaborated to learn more about arthropod evolution by using micro-CT scanning to create 3D models of fossils and view details that would be impossible to see otherwise. Their work was recently covered by the Harvard Gazette.

Please join the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture for a  free virtual Evolution Matters Lecture by Javier Ortega-Hernández on Wednesday, October 14 at 6 p.m.

Image: Artist rendering what the shrimp-like Cambrian species may have looked like. Illustration by Xiaodong Wang