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<div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A 13-meter (42-foot) long skeleton of a long-necked Camarasaurus Grandis has been unveiled to the public at the Museum of Evolution at Denmark’s Knuthenborg Safaripark.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Knuthenborg’s director, Christoffer Knuth, said the dinosaur lived about 150 million years ago in what is today Wyoming in the United States.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The dinosaur was discovered in 2017 in exactly the same position it died in, curled up near what is now a cattle ranch in Wyoming, before being excavated, restored and transported to Denmark, the museum said in a statement.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“It has 97 percent intact bones, which is absolutely unique,” Knuth said.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The skeleton is now on display alongside other fossils and skeletons at the Museum of Evolution, which opened in 2022.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">According to London’s Natural History Museum, the Camarasaurus was a herbivorous dinosaur that walked on four legs that lived 150-140 million years ago in what is now the United States, and could reach a length of up to 23 meters.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><em>(Production: Tom Little, Ilze Filks)</em></span></div>

<p>A 13-meter (42-foot) long skeleton of a long-necked Camarasaurus Grandis has been unveiled to the public at the Museum of Evolution at Denmark’s Knuthenborg Safaripark.</p>

A 13-meter (42-foot) long skeleton of a long-necked Camarasaurus Grandis has been unveiled to the public at the Museum of Evolution at Denmark’s Knuthenborg Safaripark.

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Danish museum unveils huge dinosaur skeleton for display

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Published Jul 08, 2024 09:14 PM PHT

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