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Bird Bones in Flight

Caption: Shown are three frames from an X-ray video of a pigeon flying in a wind tunnel. Under a new medical and scientific imaging system being built at Brown University, these frames will come to life in a high-speed animation that shows bones moving in 3-D.

Credit: Stephen Gatesy/Brown University

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