These are the jaws from a Kitefin shark Dalatias licha. The data was acquired using the NHM’s micro-CT scanner and was rendered by one of our summer volunteers.
There’s a stunning video on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/IAC.NaturalHistoryMuseum/videos/
Please feel free to download and print this dataset, but we’d really like to know what you do with it. It would be great to hear it’s being used for education and outreach.
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@NHM_Imaging Ok, I see it now. :)
@justadaniel No, it's the right way up, they just have very odd jaws. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitefin_shark
This data was acquired by CT scanning an original set of jaws.
It prints very nicely if you have access to a 3D printer.
Is it modeled from a shark? If so I think it might be upside-down. Still really cool though!
@NHM_Imaging indeed!
@alban Thanks for your suggestion, I think this looks much better
Nice! One suggestion if I may: I'd probably use a more neutral background to make the scan shine more, something like either solid grey color, or studio environment.