The application of laser scanning to Palaeontology produces 3D fossil replicas that palaeontologists
can process, catalogue, study and share without the risk of damaging or destroying
the original specimen. It also makes it possible to communicate their findings in an
exciting and eÆective way, with applications to teaching and interactive museum displays.
Recently, 3D laser scanners have been used in this area for the digitisation of large fossil
skeletal elements [1], the study of dinosaur locomotion [2] and for 3D modelling of
macrofossil material from a mosasaur [3].