Paleontologists Embrace a New Method for Seeing Fossils within Rock

Fossil bone can be delicate. Attempts to remove it from a hard rock matrix by picking and scratching or etching with acids can be time-consuming and/or may end up obliterating that which you hope to study.

So, paleontologists have turned to nondestructive techniques like X-rays and CT scans. Now they can turn to another technique: neutron imaging.