In the basement of Southern Methodist University's Heroy Science Hall, Travis Nolan cups an origami reptile in the palm of his hand. Technically, it's not a dinosaur, though it looks like one. Nolan ...

Origami — the art of making various shapes from a single piece of paper — has been realized at the nanoscale using DNA. Sheets of ‘DNA wireframe paper’ have been developed that, through folding along ...

Travis Nolan’s origami creations based on skeletal fossils from digs. A Dimetrodon, a Microraptor a Therizinosaurus and Triceratops. Just behind them are fossil vertebrae of a Plesiosaur. Nolan's hand ...