oVert CT Scans of Digitized Museum Specimens

The openVertebrate project, oVert for short, is an initiative to provide free, digital 3D vertebrate anatomy models and data to researchers, educators, students and the public. Over several years, the oVert team will CT scan 20,000 fluid-preserved specimens from U.S. museum collections, producing high-resolution anatomical data for more than 80 percent of vertebrate genera. CT scanning is a nondestructive technology that reveals a specimen inside and out — its skeleton, muscles, circulatory and nervous systems, internal organs, parasites, eggs and stomach contents. More about the oVert project: oVert is a multi-institutional project funded by the National Science Foundation. Video contains no audio.