Over the last few weeks we’ve been continuing both our studies of the collection of Pleistocene fossils from the Harveston neighborhood of Murrieta, as well as setting up and learning to use our new 3D scanning and printing capabilities. These two projects have rapidly started to come together. The specimen on the right is an antler from a small deer, consistent in size and shape with the white-tailed deer Odocoileus virginianus (that’s been the case with all our deer material from Harveston so far). Given the way this antler is preserved, it’s likely that it was a shed antler.On the left is a 3D print of the same antler. We’ve now printed out several fossils at WSC, but what makes this one unique is that it’s the first print based on a 3D image file that we produced in-house. Rather than being produced with a laser scanner, this file was generated using photogrammetry, using 70 different photos of the antler. We’re planning to use both laser scanning and photogrammetry to generate our 3D models.The model of the deer antler is available for viewing or download on Sketchfab.