Scientists scanned more than 13,000 creatures, revealing eggs inside a turtle, the rib cage of a bat, and rare rim rock snake eating a centipede.The project, called openVertebrate (oVert), was conducted by 18 institutions who spent six years scanning specimens from museums with the goal of providing useful data to researchers to make more discoveries about the animals. The team used high-energy X-rays to look through each specimen’s exterior, eliminating the need to dissect them, which could potentially destroy the creatures in the process.
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