Hello all this is Lou telling you that today we are talking about
DIPLODOCUS
Diplodocus is one of the most famous dinosaurs around and though many say its name as Dip-pi-lo-do-cus it is pronounced as Dee-plod-o-cus. The Dip way of saying it came around when the London
National History Museum in the United Kingdom named their complete partial Skeleton “Dippy” after it was discovered in 1877 by a S.W.Williams.
It lived 161.2 to 145 million years ago in what we now call Morrisons formation in North America, a large area where Stegosaurus and Allosaurus are found too. In the late Jurassic and lived about 80 years the same length as an African elephant.
From head to tail it is a humongous 80 feet long! That’s longer than 2 buses! It stood 15 feet high and weighed 80 tons!
Though being very heavy and very long unlike its cousins Apatosaurus its neck was low enough for predictors to get to it!
IT COULD SWIM! Though being massive some fossils have been found that are footprints and markings of swimming dinosaurs some belonging to Diplodocus!
Dippy had to say goodbye. London's famous Diplodocus had to leave and be replaced in 2017 with a blue whale skeleton due to a few reasons. Though a petition in 2015 was signed over 30,000 times for him to stay he couldn’t due to majority of the bone were fake and casts from other skeletons of diplodocus.
The bones that were real started to be affected by the salt in the air that came off sweat of viewers, with the population of people coming into the museum main gallery was getting over crowded but the main reason was Blue whales exists today and though Dinosaurs are incredible and fascination they wanted to dedicate the main viewing gallery to animals today as well as animals from the past.
So, in paying tribute to one of the world's largest sea mammals today and to make awareness of them, to help try to make their numbers rise. The museum had put Dippy away and only came out for tours around the country from time to time.
And as always have a rawr day from Dino Lou
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