Tallest Dinosaur Skeleton
Saturday, 28. July 2007, 14:07:26
On 13 July 2007 the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin reopened four exhibition halls, renovated during the last two years.
The museum’s main hall takes you back to the Upper Jurassic. Five skeletons from the museum’s collection of dinosaurs from Mount Tendaguru in Tanzania is on display, including Brachiosaurus brancai, the tallest dinosaur ever mounted in a museum.
A team of Canadian specialists have reconstructed the Brachiosaurus after the giant herbivore was dismantled three years ago while the museum building was refurbished (the picture above is earlier). The dinosaur has undergone a total makeover, with numerous sections of the skeleton recast in carbon fiber, a material experts working on the project said was about 100 times lighter than the original fossils.
The skeleton measures 13.27 m from toe to head and is about 23 - 25 m long. It was found by a German expedition in the early 1900s at a time when the area was a German colony (1885 to 1918).
The museum’s main hall takes you back to the Upper Jurassic. Five skeletons from the museum’s collection of dinosaurs from Mount Tendaguru in Tanzania is on display, including Brachiosaurus brancai, the tallest dinosaur ever mounted in a museum.
A team of Canadian specialists have reconstructed the Brachiosaurus after the giant herbivore was dismantled three years ago while the museum building was refurbished (the picture above is earlier). The dinosaur has undergone a total makeover, with numerous sections of the skeleton recast in carbon fiber, a material experts working on the project said was about 100 times lighter than the original fossils.
The skeleton measures 13.27 m from toe to head and is about 23 - 25 m long. It was found by a German expedition in the early 1900s at a time when the area was a German colony (1885 to 1918).
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