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Gigantic Dinosaur Skeleton on Show in London

A colossus has landed in London: A cast of what was one of the biggest animals ever to walk the Earth is now on show at the Natural History Museum.

Patagotitan was a dinosaur that lived 100 million years ago in South America.

BBC 30 MAR 2023

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Measuring some 37m (121ft) from nose to tail, the beast could have weighed up to 60 or 70 tonnes in life.

The museum has brought over not just a representative skeleton but some of the real fossil bones first discovered in Argentina in 2014.

The largest is a 2.4m-long femur, or thigh bone. It's been erected upright to give visitors an extraordinary selfie opportunity.

"Patagotitan was what we call a sauropod dinosaur," explained palaeontologist Prof Paul Barrett.

"It's a relative of things like Diplodocus that you might be a bit more familiar with. It's one of these large barrel-bodied animals with forced-out legs. It almost looks like a giant elephant that's had an anaconda snake threaded through it, with a very long neck and a long tail," he told BBC News.

The replica skeleton is on loan from Argentina's Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio (MEF), whose staff unearthed the original fossils.

Prof Paul Barrett: "They turned their bodies into huge fermentation tanks"

The London institution had to put its thinking cap on to work out how best to display the creature.

It only just fits in its Waterhouse Gallery, its largest exhibition space. Even then, the end of the tail has had to be bent around a column.

The floor also needed to be strengthened, but, cleverly, engineers have been able to hide some of the supporting armature, or support frame, so that it looks as though the dinosaur is walking along the carpet.

"It's been quite the challenge, second only to hanging our blue whale from the ceiling in the museum's Hintze Hall," said head of technical production, Jez Burn.

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