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Triceratops horridus Marsh, 1889

Common name: Dinosaur

Taxonomy: Animalia Chordata Vertebrata Sauropsida Reptilia Archosauria Dinosauria Ornithischia Ceratopsia Ceratopsidae

Published Name: Triceratops horridus Marsh, 1889

USNM Number: PAL500000

Data Source: NMNH - Paleobiology Dept.

EDAN-URL: edanmdm:nmnhpaleobiology_3572783

Triceratops Horridus Marsh

Smithsonian source data can be found [here](https://ids.si.edu/ids/media_view?id=3d_package:341c96cd-f967-4540-8ed1-d3fc56d31f12)

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Mammuthus primigenius (Blumbach)

Collector: Otto (?) Geist  

Place: Alaska, United States

Collection Date: 1952

Common Name: mammoth

Taxonomy: Animalia Chordata Vertebrata Synapsida Mammalia Eutheria Afrotheria Proboscidea Elephantidae

Published Name: Mammuthus primigenius (Blumbach)

USNM Number: V23792

Data Source: NMNH - Paleobiology Dept.
    
EDAN-URL: edanmdm:nmnhpaleobiology_3447777

Mammuthus primigenius (Blumbach)

Micro CT scan of a half section of a nautilus shell from the D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum at the University of Dundee.

As an elegant demonstration of the logarithmic or equiangular spiral in nature, the nautilus is perhaps the most iconic image associated with D'Arcy Thompson's ground-breaking work in mathematical biology. 

Scanned with a Nikon XT H 225ST micro CT scanner. The resulting file is exported as an stl. and imported in to Zbrush. Texture is added from photographs using the Spotlight function and Polypainting.

We’d love to hear from you if you download or print our models, especially if you use them in education and outreach.

Nautilus Shell (sectioned)

Human cranium from the anthropology department's collections at University of North Carolina at Greensboro, modeled with the permission of Dr. Robert Anemone.

Creator: Cory Henderson, undergraduate Anthropology and Biology student at University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Hardware: Camera (Unknown model and manufacturer)

Software: Agisoft PhotoScan Professional and Geomagic Wrap 2014

Cranium

Human right os coxa from the anthropology department's collections at University of North Carolina at Greensboro, modeled with the permission of Dr. Robert Anemone.

Creator: Cory Henderson, undergraduate Anthropology and Biology student at University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Hardware: NextEngine Desktop 3D Scanner, Model 2020i

Software: ScanStudioHD and RapidWorks

Right Os Coxa

Human sacrum from the anthropology department's collections at University of North Carolina at Greensboro, modeled with the permission of Dr. Robert Anemone.

Creator: Cory Henderson, undergraduate Anthropology and Biology student at University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Hardware: NextEngine Desktop 3D Scanner, Model 2020i

Software: ScanStudioHD and RapidWorks

Sacrum

This is a 3D scan of the holotype fossil specimen of *Calymene blumenbachii*, the "Dudley Bug", one of the best known species of trilobite. This specimen comes from Dudley from the Much Wenlock Limestone Formation, and lived around 428 million years ago, when the Midlands was covered by warm, shallow, tropical seas. Digitised using an Artec Spider 3D scanner by University of Birmingham Palaeobiology & Palaeoenvironments undergraduate student Luke Meade.

Dimensions of the specimen:

Length: 101mm

Width: 73mm

Height: 38mm

The "Dudley Bug" trilobite

Extracted with Unity Asset Explorer
 
 The Reefback leviathan, or just the Reefback, is a large leviathan class organism which is very strange in its biology, having evolved drastically to survive attacks from now extinct predators. Often, the reefbacks can become centuries old, and have many species of coral and plants grow on its back, putting their roots into deep scars in the large chitonous back. The creature evolved this back, asbits just one chitonous large bone like structure, as opposed to the other evolutionary paths of a spine with multiple vertibrae. The Reefback has large fina that look like claws, but actually control where the creature turns. The reefback will produce booming calls and songs like earth whales, using 2 large mouths on its sides, which also filter microorganisms from the water. The bottom also has blue bioluminescent stripes, and a collection of enzyme pods, which have no real purpose. Often, resources can be found on its back.
 
 Asset made by UnknownWorlds devs of Subnautica

Reefback

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Eremotherium laurillardi

Collector: Gazin, Pearce, Marteo  

Place: Herrera Prov, Panama

Collection Date:1951

Taxonomy: Animalia Chordata Vertebrata Synapsida Mammalia Eutheria Xenarthra Pilosa Folivora Megatheriidae

Published Name: Eremotherium laurillardi Eremotherium rusconi Schaub

USNM Number: V20867

Data Source: NMNH - Paleobiology Dept.

EDAN-URL:  edanmdm:nmnhpaleobiology_3447759

Eremotherium laurillardi

Frilled Shark is one of the most primitive and mysterious sharks still alive today, often called a “living fossil” because its appearance has remained almost unchanged for millions of years. This ultra-realistic 3D model accurately captures its elongated eel-like body, wide mouth, needle-sharp teeth, and distinctive frilled gill slits. The model is carefully crafted with clean quad topology, realistic proportions, and detailed surface textures, making it suitable for close-up shots. Ideal for documentaries, educational projects, games, cinematics, and marine biology visualizations. Optimized for performance while maintaining high visual fidelity.

Animated Frilled Shark

This 3D model represents the heart of a rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus), created with anatomical accuracy for educational and scientific visualization purposes. The model is designed based on standard mammalian cardiac anatomy and is suitable for use in zoology, veterinary science, biology education, and comparative anatomy studies.

The heart clearly shows its external morphology, including the atrial and ventricular regions, major blood vessels, and overall realistic shape. The surface detailing and proportions are optimized to closely resemble a real rabbit heart while maintaining clarity for learning and demonstration.

Rabbit Heart

**Tarantula (Theraphosidae family)**
   - Large, hairy spiders popular in pet trade.
   - Includes species like the Goliath Birdeater, one of the largest spiders on Earth.

Tarantulas (family Theraphosidae) are large, hairy spiders admired for their size, calm demeanor, and striking appearance. Found across the Americas, Africa, and Asia, they inhabit deserts, rainforests, and grasslands. Despite their fearsome look, most tarantulas are docile and pose little threat to humans.

These nocturnal hunters rely on stealth and strength to ambush prey, using their fangs to inject venom and digestive enzymes. They don’t spin webs to catch food but do use silk to line burrows or create egg sacs.

Tarantulas are popular in the exotic pet trade due to their manageable behavior and fascinating biology. With proper care and respect, tarantulas reveal the gentle side of these often-misunderstood arachnids.

Tarantula

[MSB:Mamm:57008](https://arctos.database.museum/guid/MSB:Mamm:57008) (Division of Mammals, Museum of Southwestern Biology, University of New Mexico)

Saccopteryx bilineata (MSB:Mamm:57008)

This 3D model showcases the digestive system of a leech (Class Hirudinea), created for educational and anatomical visualization. It accurately represents the alimentary canal, highlighting the structural adaptations of blood-feeding annelids such as Hirudinaria granulosa.

The model includes the mouth and muscular pharynx, followed by a short oesophagus leading into a large crop with paired lateral caeca, specialized for food storage. Posteriorly, the intestine, rectum, and dorsal anus are shown in correct anatomical position. The system is color-coded and proportionally arranged for easy identification of each part.

Optimized for interactive viewing, this model is suitable for school biology, undergraduate zoology, virtual labs, and anatomy demonstrations.

🔍 Key structures: Mouth • Pharynx • Oesophagus • Crop with caeca • Intestine • Rectum • Anus

Leech Digestive System

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Tamaulipasaurus morenoi - skull

**Red‑Gold Dragon**  
The Red‑Gold Dragon, *Draconis aurumflamma*, is said to have first appeared in the mountain courts of early Zhou‑era mystics, who described it as a creature woven from storm‑light and molten ore. Legends claim emperors sought its favor not for war, but for wisdom: the dragon’s spiraling body was believed to map celestial currents, allowing scholars to predict seasonal shifts and political tides.

Modern folklorists were stunned when a 19th‑century naturalist proposed a semi‑scientific classification, arguing that its serpentine anatomy resembled an evolutionary offshoot of ancient river reptiles. Though unproven, the idea gave the Red‑Gold Dragon a curious place in proto‑mythological biology.

Its most unexpected purpose, however, lies in ritual craftsmanship. Artisans once invoked the dragon not as a guardian but as a muse for precision, believing its coils taught the perfect balance between tension and grace, a philosophy still echoed in calligraphy and martial arts today.

Chinese Red Dragon

A standard-issue sidearm used by military or security forces of Extraterrestrial Reconnaissance & Yield Xenobiology (ERYX) Project, colonial marshals, and certain TAM-aligned units. Lightweight, low recoil, and reasonably reliable even in vacuum or extreme environments thanks to the sealed battery; modular rig allows loading of various kind of kinetic ammunition and flares. 

![Eryxian Open Game Universe](https://res.cloudinary.com/dnfbskuf4/image/upload/v1774012885/eryxian-worldgithub-250_zqm9hk.png)

[Eryxian Universe Lore](https://eryxian.com/)

ERYX Peacebreaker [Sidearm Concept]

This high-resolution image showcases an ultra-detailed white insect anatomy illustration , highlighting intricate exoskeleton structures, segmented body parts, antennae, and legs with extreme precision. The artwork presents a macro-style biological perspective, making it ideal for topics related to insect anatomy, digital biology illustrations, AI-generated art, scientific visualization, and 3D modeling references.

Perfect for blogs covering AI art, generative design, biological studies, macro photography inspiration, creature design, and digital anatomy exploration, this image emphasizes symmetry, texture realism, and anatomical accuracy. The contrast between the pale insect form and the dark background enhances visual clarity, making it suitable for educational, creative, and research-oriented content.

White Insect 3d Model

Silicified wood forms when plants absorb silica-rich groundwater that fills their cells with silica glass or quartz. This mineralization preserves the plant, turning it to stone soon after death or even while alive.

This object is part of the historical ‘Ettingshausen collection’, which is on permanent loan from the Institute of Biology, University of Graz. It is not currently on display.

**Specimen**: Silicified fossil tree trunk

**Inventory number**: NHMW-GEO-2024/0188/11590

**Collection**: NHMW, Geology & Palaeontology Dept., Palaeobotany (curator: Chris Mays)

**Origin**: Unkown

Find out more about the NHM Vienna [here](http://nhm.at/en).

Scanned and edited by A. Haider (NHMW)

Scanner: Artec Space Spider 

Contribution to the digitization project „Einsichten in die gesellschaftspolitische Dimension des NHMW über die Jahrhunderte von der Prägung des Wissenschafts-Verständnisses bis zum Nationalpark in der Lobau“ funded by the [BMWKMS](https://www.bmwkms.gv.at/).

Silicified wood (NHMW-GEO-2024-0188-11590)

This is part of a fossil stem of a giant lycopsid plant from the coal fields of Czechia, which formed during the Carboniferous Period (359–299 million years ago). Lycopsids are related to ferns, so they produce spores rather than seeds. 

This object is part of the historical ‘Ettingshausen collection’, which is on permanent loan from the Institute of Biology, University of Graz. It is not currently on display.

**Specimen**: Large, coalified fossil lycopsid plant stem

**Inventory number**: NHMW-GEO-2024/0188/11077

**Collection**: NHMW, Geology & Palaeontology Dept., Palaeobotany (curator: Chris Mays)

**Origin**: Karviná, Czechian Silesia, Czechia

Find out more about the NHM Vienna [here](http://nhm.at/en).

Scanned and edited by A. Haider (NHMW)

Scanner: Artec Space Spider 

Contribution to the Kulturerbe digital (2nd Call) digitization project at the NHMW funded by the [BMWKMS](https://bmwkms.gv.at/)

Sigillaria ornata (NHMW-GEO-2024/0188/11077)

This rock sample hosts many fossil leaves preserved as impressions, mainly from a type of willow (*Salix grandifolia*). The rock itself consists of a porous, crystalline limestone called tufa.  

This object is part of the historical ‘Ettingshausen collection’, which is on permanent loan from the Institute of Biology, University of Graz. It is not currently on display.

**Specimen**: Limestone rock sample with multiple leaf impression fossils

**Inventory number**: NHMW-GEO-2024/0188/11366

**Collection**: NHMW, Geology & Palaeontology Dept., Palaeobotany (curator: Chris Mays)

**Origin**: Scheibbs, Lower Austria, Austria

Find out more about the NHM Vienna [here](http://nhm.at/en).

Scanned & edited by A.Haider (NHMW)

Scanner: Artec Space Spider 

Contribution to the digitization project „Einsichten in die gesellschaftspolitische Dimension des NHMW über die Jahrhunderte von der Prägung des Wissenschafts-Verständnisses bis zum Nationalpark in der Lobau“ funded by the [BMWKMS](https://www.bmwkms.gv.at/).

Fossil leaves (NHMW-GEO-2024-0188-11366)

This is the fossil stem of a giant lycopsid plant from the coal fields of Czechia, which formed during the Carboniferous Period (359–299 million years ago). This particular fossil is a species of *Knorria*. Lycopsids are related to ferns, so they produce spores rather than seeds. 

This object is part of the historical ‘Ettingshausen collection’, which is on permanent loan from the Institute of Biology, University of Graz. It is not currently on display.

**Specimen**: Large, sand cast of a fossil lycopsid plant stem

**Inventory number**: NHMW-GEO-2024/0188/11041

**Collection**: NHMW, Geology & Palaeontology Dept., Palaeobotany (curator: Chris Mays)

**Origin**: Karviná, Czechian Silesia, Czechia

Find out more about the NHM Vienna [here](http://nhm.at/en).

Scanned and edited by A. Haider (NHMW)

Scanner: Artec Space Spider 

Contribution to the Kulturerbe digital (2nd Call) digitization project at the NHMW funded by the [BMWKMS](https://bmwkms.gv.at/)

Knorria (NHMW-GEO-2024/0188/11041)

This is a 3d model of a part of a fossil stem of a giant lycopsid plant from the coal fields of Czechia, which formed during the Carboniferous Period (359–299 million years ago).

This object is part of the historical ‘Ettingshausen collection’, which is on permanent loan from the Institute of Biology, University of Graz. It is not currently on display.

**Specimen**: Large, coalified fossil lycopsid plant stem

**Inventory number**: NHMW-GEO-2024/0188/11066

**Collection**: NHMW, Geology & Palaeontology Dept., Palaeobotany (curator: Chris Mays)

**Origin**: Karviná coal fields, Czechian Silesia, Czechia

Find out more about the NHM Vienna [here](http://nhm.at/en).

Scanned and edited by A. Haider (NHMW)

Scanner: Artec Space Spider 

Contribution to the digitization project „Einsichten in die gesellschaftspolitische Dimension des NHMW über die Jahrhunderte von der Prägung des Wissenschafts-Verständnisses bis zum Nationalpark in der Lobau“ funded by the [BMWKMS](https://www.bmwkms.gv.at/).

Sigillaria elongata (NHMW-GEO-2024/0188/11066)

This 3D Model is part of the 3D-Scan collection of human bones at the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Medical University Varna, Bulgaria.

Scan with the 3D MakerPro Toucan, far-mode -> lower detail.
We shall rescan using the high detail near-mode.

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