Brian Post, who led the MDF effort, noted that 3D printing the molds is a fast, low-cost solution that allows for the creation of a large variety of fish models in a short period of time.

His ambitions are a little loftier, aiming to collect and scan all 25,000 known species of fish, to create 3D models of their skeletons which can then be freely downloaded, 3D printed and studied.

In addition, 3D-printed coral models can be useful as a control for fish-related laboratory studies, enabling researchers to provide each fish an identical habitat, something that is currently not ...

What do puffer fish and the Mona Lisa have in common? Not much, unless you're in a classroom at the South Australian School for Vision Impaired, where they are being meticulously printed into 3D ...

The model touches the print bed in only five small places, which makes bed adhesion especially important, and the model’s smooth, rounded surface is exactly the kind of thing that 3D printers ...