A combination of analytical methods used in engineering and scanning techniques from medicine can be applied in some surprising areas of research — the biomechanics of dinosaur feeding, for instance.
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Erickson, G. The bite of Allosaurus. Nature 409, 987–988 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35059184
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