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News and Updates
Watch live work on T. rex skull
Starting Aug. 12, the public can watch fossil preparation of the 91探花聽鈥荣听Tyrannosaurus rex聽skull 鈥渓ive.鈥 Over the next several months, Burke paleontologists will carefully remove the rock surrounding the skull, slowly exposing the 66-million-year-old specimen.聽聽in summer 2016 in the Hell Creek Formation in northeast Montana, the skull is 4 feet long, weighs 3,000 pounds in its field jacket, is the first in Washington and one of only 15 reasonably complete聽T. rex聽skulls ever discovered. Read more from the .
91探花doctors assist with life-saving surgery for Woodland Park gorilla
91探花physicians and surgeons were part of the human medical specialist team that joined Woodland Park Zoo’s animal health team last month to perform emergency surgery on 38-year-old Vip, a western lowland gorilla. Read more about the procedure and see video from . In 2015, Vip underwent a specialized sinus procedure and captured it and reported on the ground-breaking procedure.
Campus Master Plan released
The 91探花 issued its 2018 Seattle Campus Master Plan and Final Environmental Impact Statement last week. The final document responds to comments received on both the draft master plan and the environmental impact statement during the comment period held last fall.
Read more about the process for guiding the creation of the 2018 Seattle Campus Master Plan from . All of the documents related to the plan are available on the .
Innovation in video technology turns audio clips into realistic lip-synced video
91探花 researchers have developed new algorithms that solve a thorny challenge in the field of computer vision:聽聽of the person speaking those words. Read more from .