Dippy, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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sherpes
N 40° 26.610 W 079° 57.084
17T E 588927 N 4477511
At the corner of a natural history museum
Waymark Code: WM4J2W
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 08/29/2008
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Andrew Carnegie sent a group of paleontologists to Wyoming in 1898 to retrieve the bones of “the most colossal animal on earth,” bringing international recognition to Pittsburgh and American paleontology. To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Dippy went from bones to a fleshed-out model. Using information from the paleontologists at the museum, a fiberglass shell was made over a steel armature creating this life-size replica of an animal that became extinct 150 million years ago.
Title: Diplodocuscarnegii, aka "Dippy"
Research Casting International, 1999
Material: Colored gelcoat and fiberglass
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