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, 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
natural history museum in london. its huge bones were discovered more than 10 years ago in argentina. it s a replica skeleton that will be on show, but that means the public will be able to touch it, and walk beneath it. 0ur science editor, rebecca morelle, has that story. piece by piece. bone by colo55al bone. a creature from 100 million years ago begins to emerge. this is patagotitan, one of the largest dino5aur5 ever to walk the earth. a55embling 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 no5e all the way down to its tail, and itju5t 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 fo55ili5ed bones, and getting a creature like this into a 140 year old building has been a challenge. we have had to take some of the doors off in order to get the crates and different
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 iao year old building has been a challenge. we have 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. he also got a chance to see what this titan of the cretaceous period might have looked like.
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 building has been a challenge. we have 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.