Massive dinosaur skeleton spills out of hall at famed New York museum
15 Jan 2016 11:25 AM IST15 Jan 2016 11:25 AM IST
New York unveils skeleton cast of largest dinosaur-ever.
It has not yet been formally named by paleontologists who discovered it in Argentina in 2014. It belongs to a group known as titanosaurs.- The giant skeleton cast took a firm in Canada more than six months to make, based on 84 fossil bones that were excavated from the site in 2014.
- The dinosaur is a new species and one of the largest dinosaurs ever discovered. It has not yet been formally named by palaeontologists who discovered it in Argentina in 2014.
- The titanosaur's remains were excavated in the Argentinian desert near La Flecha by a team from the Museum of Paleontology Egidio Feruglio, led by José Luis Carballido and Diego Pol, who studied at the New York museum.
- The dinosaur belongs to the titanosaur family and was discovered by Paleontologists in the Patagonian Desert of Argentina in 2014 and lived about 100 to 95 million years ago.
- The dinosaur is a new species and one of the largest dinosaurs-ever discovered and belongs to a group known as 'titanosaurs'.
- The replica of the titanosaur weighs about 70 tonnes, is 17 feet-tall and stretches to nearly 122 feet-long.
- A fossil of the titanosaur stands next to a replica of the dinosaur, one of the largest-ever discovered, as it is unveiled at the American Museum of Natural History, in New York City.
- Paleontologist Diego Pol, who helped lead the excavations, said that the discovery was a 'once in a lifetime' moment.
- A replica of one of the largest dinosaurs ever discovered is unveiled at the American Museum of Natural History.
- The skeleton cast of a titanosaur is seen during a media preview at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The new, 122-foot (37-meter) dinosaur skeleton, unveiled on Friday, is too long to fit in the fossil hall and so its neck and head will poke out toward the elevator banks, offering a surprise greeting when the lift doors open.
It has not yet been formally named by paleontologists who discovered it in Argentina in 2014. It belongs to a group known as titanosaurs.
New York unveils skeleton cast of largest dinosaur-ever.
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