Dino-loving kids (or in other words, almost all kids) will go gaga over the incredible newly discovered beast soon to live at the American Museum of Natural History.
The AMNH is known for iconic holdings: the blue whale, the T.rex, the great canoe. Come January, those specimens will have a new competitor for adoring fans: a 122-foot long Titanosaur, a giant herbivore that weighed 77 tons, or about as much as 15 elephants.
The remains were discovered in Argentina’s Patagonia region, big news in palentology. The field has always been a specialty of AMNH, so the new acquisition is a perfect fit.
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The Titanosaur is ousting a long-term resident of the fourth floor, a juvenile Barosaurus. But given the size difference between the two, the Titanosaur will have to poke its head and neck out of the gallery towards the elevators, as if to greet visitors.
The January unveiling is just the beginning of a year of special dinosaur happenings at the museum, propelled by dramatic recent developments in palentology. The field has advanced way beyond geology, now utilizing technology to look at topics such as how dinosaur brains develop and the color of their feathers.
And speaking of feathers…next up for 2016 is “Dinosaurs Among Us,” an exhibition examining how one group of dinosaurs evolved into birds. It opens on March 19.
For more details, go to AMNH.org.
