3D polygonal model, guided by imaging scan data and ... Credit: Ashleigh Wiseman The resulting model included 36 muscles in each leg. Per Wiseman, Lucy had much larger calves and thighs than ...

Dr Ashleigh Wiseman has 3D-modelled the leg and pelvis muscles ... she was able to map the "muscle paths" and build a digital musculoskeletal model. Wiseman then used existing virtual models ...

For decades, X-ray computer tomography (CT) scanning has enabled scientists to noninvasively examine the insides of organisms and objects, and model ... muscle fibers inside the worm's leg ...

However, Ashleigh Wiseman, a paleoanthropology research associate at the University of Cambridge, created 3D models of the leg and pelvis muscles of the 3.2 million-year-old Australopithecus ...

A 3D polygonal model, guided by imaging scan data and muscle scarring, reconstructing the lower limb muscles of the Australopithecus afarensis fossil AL 288-1, known as ‘Lucy’.

Our 3.2 million-year-old ancestor "Lucy" could stand and walk upright just like modern humans do, new 3D muscle ... The model also reveals the proportions of fat and muscle in Lucy's legs, showing ...

But this new 3D model showing the muscle and soft tissue suggests that those similarities may be only shell-deep, and ammonites might have more in common, evolutionarily speaking, with today's ...