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Neutron instrument Dingo captures the life of dinosaurs and other early creatures frozen in stone

New perspectives on paleontological samples are being opened up by non-invasive neutron radiography and tomography on ANSTO’s “Dingo” instrument, which reveal surprising compositional and textual information that is not available from other techniques.

The information is producing startling findings about the evolutionary timeline, and the behaviour of creatures that lived up 1.5 billion years ago.

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