STATE COLLEGE, Pa., July 31 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've used computed tomography to virtually glue newly found skull fragments of an extinct giant lemur into a partial skull.
The skull fragments, discovered more than 100 years ago, are separated by thousands of miles from the partial skull in Vienna and the pieces of frontal bone in the United States.
Pennsylvania State University researchers said the result of their digital manipulation is a nearly complete skull of Hadropithecus stenognathus, which is one of two known skulls of the species that grew as large as big baboons.
Professor Alan Walker and research associate Timothy Ryan led the study, which is reported in the online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
