NEW YORK—Today, the American Museum of Natural History dropped the curtain to reveal one of the biggest paleontological finds of recent years. Everything in that sentence is literal—the museum lowered a curtain to reveal a full-sized cast of the Titanosaur, a species that may be the largest dinosaur ever discovered.
The find itself made news when images came out of paleontologist Diego Pol lying on the femur of the skeleton, which is roughly the size of a sofa (though far less comfortable). Since then, the team from the Museo Paleontologico Egidio Feruglio (MPEF) have excavated over 200 bones, representing 70 percent of the skeleton. Four of those bones (each over a meter long) are also on display at the exhibit. The skeleton on display is made of lightweight fiberglass casts, as the actual bones would weigh far too much to support—the femur alone is roughly 500kg. It's the first outside of the MPEF.
The partnership between MPE and the AMNH was a natural one, as Pol got his PhD there. And he was back on hand for the Titanosaur's unveiling.
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