It turns out that 3D printing isn't just for pizza, as scientists have used the technology to study 170m year old fossils that are embedded into rocks on the Isle of Skye.
In a blog post on iMaterialise, the company explains how Dr Roger Close and his colleagues from Oxford University discovered the fossilised jaw of Palaeoxonodon ooliticus - a creature about the size of a mouse.
Blowing things out of proportion.
The prints, which were made with polyamide, had a number of other advantages over having to lug a massive rock around, such as the fact that the 3D file could be shared with other researchers around the world with ease - and perhaps most interestingly, scaled up in size.
Given the real life jaw was less than the size of a 20p coin, the scientists were able to blow it up to 20x as large - to make studying easier.
Close is quoted as saying about the print: "The best thing about having a 3D print of the fossil was that I could show the specimen off to colleagues and friends - virtually everyone who saw it was amazed, particularly when they heard that the model had only cost £10!"
It's a great example of how 3D printing technology is changing science.