the patagotitan dinosaur was discovered nearly ten years ago in argentina. a replica skeleton will go on show so that the public can touch it and walk beneath its very big bones. 0ur science editor rebecca morelle has the story. piece by piece, bone by colossal bone, a creature from 100 million years ago begins to emerge. this is patagotitan, one of the largest dinosaurs ever to walk the earth. assembling this dinosaur is like putting together a giant 3d jigsaw puzzle. there are more than 500 bones and fixings but no instruction manual. this beast measures 37 metres from the tip of its nose all the way down to its tail, and it just about squeezes into this room with a few twists and turns along the way. the titanosaur is a cast, an exact replica of the original fossilised bones, and getting a creature like this into a 140 year old
at the natural history museum in london or a likeness of one, anyway. the patagotitan dinosaur was discovered nearly ten years ago in argentina. a replica skeleton will go on show so that the public can touch it and walk beneath its very big bones. our science editor rebecca morelle has the story. piece by piece, bone by colossal bone. a creature from 100 million years ago begins to emerge. this is patagotitan, one of the largest dinosaurs ever to walk the earth. assembling this dinosaur is like putting together a giant 3d jigsaw puzzle. there are more than 500 bones and fixings but no instruction manual. this beast measures 37 metres from the tip of its nose all the way down to its tail, and itjust about squeezes into this room with a few twists and turns along the way. the titanosaur is a cast, an exact replica of the original fossilised bones,
assembling this dinosaur is like putting together a giant 3d jigsaw puzzle. there are more than 500 bones and fixings but no instruction manual. this beast measures 37 metres from the tip of its nose all the way down to its tail, and itjust about squeezes into this room with a few twists and turns along the way. the titanosaur is a cast, an exact replica of the original fossilised bones, and getting a creature like this into a 140 year old building has been a challenge. we ve had to take some of the doors off in order to get the crates and different parts of the dinosaur in, and some of the bones and the cast itself are quite heavy so we ve had to reinforce our floors. that sense of awe at standing under one of the largest animals to have walked on land and trying to imagine it as a living, breathing creature is. . .yeah, it s amazing. the bones were unearthed at a ranch in patagonia in argentina just over a decade ago.
getting a creature of this enormous has been getting it a creature of this enormous has been getting it into the building here. piece by piece. bone by colossal bone. a creature from 100 million years ago begins to emerge. this is patagotitan, one of the largest dinosaurs ever to walk the earth. ready to go on view to the public at the natural history museum. assembling this dinosaur is like putting together a giant 3d jigsaw puzzle. there are more than 500 bones and fixings, but no instruction manual. this beast measures 37 metres from the tip of its nose, all the way down to its tail. and itjust about squeezes into this room with a few twists and turns along the way. the titanosaur is a cast, an exact replica of the original fossilised bones, and getting a creature like this into a 140 year old building has been a challenge. when you come to put a very giant dinosaur on the floor, it means that there s only a certain amount
there are more than 500 bones and fixings, but no instruction manual. this beast measures 37 metres from the tip of its nose all the way down to its tail, and itjust about squeezes into this room with a few twists and turns along the way. the titanosaur is a cast, an exact replica of the original fossilised bones, and getting a creature like this into a 140 year old building has been a challenge. we ve had to take some of the doors off in order to get the crates and different parts of the dinosaur in, and some of the bones and the cast itself are quite heavy, so we ve had to reinforce our floors. that sense of awe at standing under one of the largest animals to have walked on land and trying to imagine it as a living, breathing creature is, yeah, it s amazing. the bones were unearthed at a ranch in patagonia in argentina just over a decade ago. as scientists got to grips with the scale of their find, they were joined by sir david attenborough.