New York's American Museum of Natural History has a new dinosaur on display. But good luck snapping a picture of the whole thing: the titanosaur lives up to its name by being so massive it has to be stretched across two rooms.
The 122-foot dinosaur was likely an herbivore, so it wouldn't have eaten you had you been alive at the same time. Not that you would have wanted to get into its way, though. It likely weighed 70-tons with flesh and organs intact. Found in 2012 in Argentina, it was excavated in 2014 before moving to its permanent home at AMNH, where the museum can barely contain it.
Of course, visitors probably won't be able to contain their excitement at seeing the biggest dinosaur yet known. The femur itself is 8 feet tall, just three inches shorter than Sultan Kösen, the tallest man alive. There is one thing to know here: the bones themselves are far too fragile to put on display, so they were 3D scanned and printed in fiberglass. The bones that weren't found during the excavation were recreated based on related species.
The new exhibit debuted today, so it's time to get to the AMNH and see this massive beast.
Source: Scientific American