Digital Collection of Fossils

Autodesk has started (another) community of downloadable 3D objects. This time, there's a focus on digitized fossils. Apparently these were modeled from the original fossil, not some second hand cast replica; an example of how Autodesk actually utilizes there tremendous incomes for good.

Gorilla_Skull_1 (click to view in 3D)

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The feel of this rendering is quite similar to that Catch123D app Autodesk put out not too long ago. As a fan of both Geology and CAD modeling,  I think this is a pretty cool idea.

Article - http://gizmodo.com/3d-print-your-own-20-million-year-old-fossils-1460308839

Database - http://africanfossils.org/#