The skeleton of a mammoth ancestor, restored using 3D printing, will appear in the Perm Museum of Local Lore

The skeleton of a mammoth ancestor, restored using 3D printing, will appear in the Perm Museum of Local Lore. This was reported by the press service of the regional government.

Specialists from the Moscow company 3DGate carried out digital modeling of the remains of a trogontherian elephant, which was found in the Okhansky district of the Kama region in 2013. After this, experts printed 200 animal bones from plastic and carried out a test assembly of the future exhibit. It is specified that it will be delivered to the museum disassembled.

“We expect that the disassembled exhibit will arrive in Perm in October and the next stage of work on the scientific reconstruction will begin - tinting the bones so that its visual appearance is close to the form in which the fragments of the trogontherian elephant were discovered at the site in the Okhansky region. The third stage of our work - assembling a full-length elephant - will be carried out in the future exhibition of the Permian Period museum at the Shpagin Plant,” said Tatyana Vostrikova, director of the museum.

She also explained that the need to recreate the skeleton using 3D printing is due to the fragility of the original bones. For this reason, they will be presented separately in the new exhibition.