Meet the colossal dinosaur that dwarfs Dippy the Diplodocus

One of the biggest creatures to person walked the Earth volition spell connected show astatine the Natural History Museum adjacent year.

Patagotitan mayorum, a subordinate of the titanosaur sauropod family, was 4 times heavier than Dippy the Diplodocus and 12 metres longer than Hope the bluish whale, different inhabitants of the museum.

Weighing successful astatine 57 tonnes, it would person shaken the crushed arsenic it wandered crossed what is present known arsenic Patagonia successful Argentina, experts say.

And it volition marque its European debut adjacent outpouring erstwhile its 37-metre skeleton volition beryllium crammed into the museum's tremendous Waterhouse gallery, which has a nine-metre-high ceiling.

Professor Paul Barrett, subject pb for the exhibition, said: "Patagotitan mayorum is an unthinkable specimen that tells america much astir elephantine titanosaurs than ever before.

"Comparable successful value to much than 9 African elephants, this prima specimen volition animate visitors to attraction for immoderate of the planet's largest and astir susceptible creatures, which look akin challenges for survival, and amusement that wrong Earth's ecosystems, size truly does matter."

Dr Alex Burch, manager of nationalist programmes astatine the museum, said: "We are truthful excited that Patagotitan, the astir implicit elephantine dinosaur ever discovered, is making its European debut present astatine the Natural History Museum, the location of the dinosaur."

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"Our fascination with dinosaurs provides the perfect accidental to animate and pass the adjacent procreation astir the earthy world, and empower them to enactment for the planet."

Visitors volition beryllium capable to locomotion successful the shadiness of the astir implicit gigantic dinosaur ever discovered.

They volition beryllium capable to grip specimens and observe however a carnal of this colossal size could person survived, and thrived, connected Earth.

People volition get a existent thought of the size of the carnal by lasting adjacent to a titanosaur femur bony - arsenic good arsenic look into the eyes of a sauropod skull.

Titanosaur: Life arsenic the Biggest Dinosaur volition unfastened successful the South Kensington depository connected 31 March.

The formed of Patagotitan mayorum is being loaned to the depository by the Museo Paleontologico Egidio Feruglio successful Argentina, which excavated the elephantine skeleton successful 2014.