90 feet long with a whip-like tail and 15 tonnes of weight that could crush a car. Yet all it wants for dinner is a juicy plant. But don’t misunderstand him. Just because he’s a vegan, doesn’t mean he’s a pushover.
The ROM’s huge Barosaurus skeleton was recently re-discovered in our own vaults. Dating to about 150 million years ago and collected from what is now Dinosaur National Monument, Utah, in the early part of the 20th century, the skeleton was acquired by the ROM in 1962 through a trade with the Carnegie Museum. The pieces were dispersed around the collection room due to various moves, and it was forgotten that all the pieces were from the same animal. ROM curator David Evans re-discovered the specimen after reading some recently published literature referring to the specimen and he traced it back to the ROM’s collection. When all the parts were placed together, the ROM realized it had the better part of a skeleton of a rare, giant dinosaur.
This is the only real sauropod skeleton to be mounted in Canada, the largest dinosaur skeleton on display in Canada, and the only real fossil Barosaurus mounted in the world. When alive, the animal would have weighed about 15 tonnes (15,000 kgs).
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