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WASHINGTON (AP) — Using
advanced computer technology and
a laser scanner to document every
dimple, bump and scratch, scientists
at the Smithsonian Institution are
building the most anatomically cor
rect skeleton yet of a large dinosaur.
The scanner sent millions of signals
to a computer, resulting in a series of
measurements detailing the exact pro
portions “down to the millimeter” of
the plant-eater Triceratops, said
Richard H. Benson, chairman of the
National Museum of Natural History’s
paleobiology department.
From the final, three-dimensional
image appearing on a screen, scien
tists built plaster casts. The resulting
man-made skeleton, Benson said,
“will be more accurate and better”
than the museum’s current model,
which was assembled from the bones
of 15 or more different animals.
Triceratops.’ new 7-foot-long
plastic skull was delivered to the
Smithsonian Tuesday from two
firms in Oklahoma, Shared Replica
tors and Tulsa Technologies, which
built it as a gift to the museum.
Museum staff are making the
legs and torso and hope to have the
replica on display by February.
Benson called the man-made
Triceratops “a miracle of survey
ing.” He compared the process of
its creation to satellites circling and
measuring the Earth to plot an ex
act map of the world.
“It will be as
though he's aware
of the near dan
ger and they are
circling”
— Richard H. Benson
Chair of Paleobiology Department
While the Smithsonian’s original
four-legged Triceratops is perhaps
the best specimen around, its head
came from an animal a lot smaller
than the rest of the skeleton, said
Ralph Chapman, director of the mu
seum’s morphometries lab. The
new skull is about 15 percent larg
er than the one that has been on dis
play for nearly a century.
"It fits rather nicely and bob
the way it should,” Chapman said
More help came from agroupol
paleontologists who agreed on wta
a skeleton of a complete Triceraiop!
should look like. Some bones on
one side of the dinosaur are mirroi
images of those on the other side,
Chapman said, and the backfeei
were made from foot scans of adit
ferent Triceratops altogether. Ik
new technology also allows scien
tists to mold the skeletons into dra
matic poses — an impossibilit;
with fragile fossils.
The Smithsonian already has one
plastic dinosaur on display, the meat-
eater Tyrannosaurus Rex. He is not
as accurate as the new Triceratops:
his measurements were not digital
ized but estimated “within the toler
ance. of scientific knowledge and
artistic license,” Benson said.
But T. Rex’s pose is so lifelike,
people can almost see saliva drip
ping from his hungry jaws. Tricer-
atops will be positioned directly
across the exhibit gallery froml
Rex and could be his lunch.
“It will be as though he’s aware
of the near danger and they are cir
cling,” Benson said.
Microsoft prefers appellate court
WASHINGTON (AP)
— Microsoft Corp. re
newed its argument that the
Supreme Court should let a
federal appeals court next
handle the huge antitrust
fight that threatens to break
the computer software gi
ant in two.
“The benefits of com
prehensive review by the
court of appeals far out
weigh whatever time, if
any, might be saved by di
rect review in this court,”
Microsoft’s lawyers said
in a brief filed Monday
with the Supreme Court.
The company’s brief
flatly denied as “unfound
ed” the Justice Depart
ment’s contention that Mi
crosoft is seeking initial
review in a federal appeals
court as an effort to delay
final resolution of the case.
“No one is more anx
ious than Microsoft to see
this case brought to a
prompt conclusion,” the
10-page brief said.
Microsoft filed its
Supreme Court appeal
July 26, seeking to over
turn U.S. District Judge
Thomas Penfield Jack
son’s appeal that it en
gaged in illegally anticom
petitive conduct. That
appeal urged the nation’s
highest court to “avoid the
onerous task of sifting
through a large and com
plex record and forgoing
the many benefits of inter
mediate appellate review.”
In a response filed Aug.
15, Justice Department
lawyers said sending the
case to the U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia
would result in a delay that
“could irreparably harm
competition in a vital and
rapidly evolving sector of
the national economy.”
While Jackson’s June
ruling would require Mi
crosoft’s breakup, the
judge has delayed any en
forcement of his order
pending the company’s
appeal.
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