SYDNEY: The largest dinosaur ever discovered in the world will be on display at Australia’s Queensland Museum, which opens its latest exhibition, “Dinosaurs of Patagonia,” on Friday.
The exhibition will feature 13 dinosaur species ranging from massive meat eaters to pint-sized herbivores, 16 skeleton casts, and real fossils from South America, spanning nearly all of the dinosaur eras of the Jurassic, Triassic and Cretaceous.
Visitors can come face to face with a life-size replica of Patagotitan mayorum, a plant-eating dinosaur that lived around 100 million years ago.
It weighs around 70 tons and is 38 meters long.
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Patagotitan, according to Queensland Museum Network CEO Jim Thompson, is the largest known creature to have walked our planet, weighing more than 15 times more than our (Australia’s) own herbivore ornithopod dinosaur Muttaburrasaurus and measuring more than 20 meters longer than the Queensland Humpback Whale in the Whale Mall at the Cultural Precinct.
