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- Bringing extinct plants to life
Jeff Benca is an admitted über-geek when it comes to prehistoric plants, so it was no surprise that, when he submitted a paper describing a new species of long-extinct lycopod for publication, he ditched the standard line drawing and insisted on a detailed and beautifully rendered color reconstruction of the plant. read more
April 14, 2014 - TG Daily - Computer rendering: Graduate student brings extinct plants 'back to life'
Most fossilized plants are fragments indistinguishable from a stick, but a graduate student hopes a new technique will allow paleontologists to more precisely identify these fossils. A graduate student showed the power of this technique by turning a 375 million-year-old lycopod fossil into a life-like rendering.
April 12, 2014 - Science Daily - Berkeley graduate student brings extinct plants to life
( University of California - Berkeley ) Most fossilized plants are fragments indistinguishable from a stick, but a UC Berkeley graduate student hopes a new technique will allow paleontologists to more precisely identify these fossils. Jeff Benca showed the power of this technique by turning a 375 million-year-old lycopod fossil into a life-like rendering that made the cover of the centennial ...
April 11, 2014 - EurekAlert!