Museum too small for the Titanosaurus

- The museum attracts visitors from all over the world because of the enormous blue whale that it contains. But entirely to American standards does the American Museum of Natural History in New York is one step further. Friday the skeleton of a Titanosaurus is revealed, a beast whose bones and bones with a length of less than 37 meters.

There was no room large enough in the museum, so that reach the neck and the head of the dinosaur through the door into the hall with the elevators. Paleontologists estimate that the creature lived about 70 tons when it should have weighed 70 000 kilograms, as much as ten male African elephants together. One hundred million years ago they were running around in the forests of what is now Patagonia, an area in Chile and Argentina. No living being had, moreover, something to fear of the giants, because it was peaceful herbivores.