Fly exploring 3D printer accidentally becomes ‘fossilized’


Fly exploring 3D printer accidentally becomes 'fossilized'

Fossilization of the future is here. Forget sediments, minerals crystallizing and all that other boring stuff - the task that Mother Nature has been charged with for billions of years can now be outsourced to 3D printers. On Thursday, an engineering professor who was 3D-printing a honeycomb model accidentally gave fossilization a modern treatment when a fly got stuck in the structure.
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