A new dinosaur unveiled today at the American Museum of Natural History hits many superlatives for the museum. It’s the tallest yet at 17 feet – just two feet shy of its home at the Wallach Orientation Center on the fourth floor. It’s too long for the space, so its head and neck go out into the elevator bank in front of the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing. The species is so new, it doesn’t have a scientific name yet but belongs to a group of herbivore giants known as “titanosaurs.” According to the American Museum of Natural History website, “The species lived in the forests of today’s Patagonia about 100 to 95 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous period, and is one of the largest dinosaurs ever discovered.”
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