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 ...

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 ...

The scans of the intact leg, residual limb and off-the-shelf prosthetic mechanisms are then combined in a 3D mesh model to create the raw model of the prosthesis. To reduce weight, the limb is ...

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 ...

To make it work, two “muscles ... featuring 3D printed knee and hip joints. Then, when it’s time to begin leaping, the team starts shocking. While conventional robotic legs are driven ...

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 ...

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’.

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 ...