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Analysis of fossil organisms using computer techniques
Article By:
Garwood, Russell School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, and Manchester X-Ray Imaging Facility, School of Materials, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Last reviewed:2015
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1036/1097-8542.YB150677
Fossils, the preserved remains of organisms or their traces, can provide unique insights into the history of life and the patterns and processes of evolution. To make the most of these glimpses into past life, paleontologists need to extract the maximum amount of information possible from the rocks in which these fossils are found. In recent decades, computer-based techniques have allowed researchers to recover ever more valuable information from fossils buried in rock. Furthermore, fossil investigators can now do more with this information than would have entered even the most fevered dreams of paleontologists in decades and centuries past.
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