Here’s Your Best Look at the World’s Largest Dinosaur Skeleton

Meet the titanosaur . It ’s the newest exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History , and it ’s a dinosaur frame so large it does n’t even fit into a unmarried room .

The exhibit , which opens today , sport a full replica of a 70 - short ton titanosaur ’s bone , which were uncovered in 2012 as part of a monumental excavation in Argentina . Peter May — the chair of Research Casting International , who was responsible for for establish the 122 - metrical foot - long replication — talked to Gizmodo to explicate the cognitive operation by which his team casted and gather the skeletal frame into the full titanosaurian you’re able to see stretch out across the museum now .

Even with the twinkle , 3D - printed fibreglass reproduction bone , the lengthy skeleton still presented a weight problem . supernumerary steel reinforcements keep the dinosaur ’s long neck and after part stretched away from each other and static . The final skeleton not only take on up an entire room , but spans an extra 10 foundation out the door . The exhibit will be open to its first visitors at 10 am easterly this morning .