It was 3D printed, then spruced up with modelling clay and a coat of paint. With just a standard desktop 3D printer, you too can get similar results and have your own cast of H. naledi.

The center is working to create a model of the rest of the animal's skeleton soon. It will be about 30 feet long when it's done. "Maybe a touch more," Maltese said. "It's a big, long lanky animal." ...

People get CT and MRI scans every day, and when [Oliver] needed some medical diagnostic imaging done, he was sure to ask for the files so he could turn his skull into a printable 3D object. [Oliver… ...

A new-born baby girl's life was saved after surgeons in Krakow, Poland, used a 3D replica of her underdeveloped skull to visualise how to operate on the bone defect that left her brain exposed.