Carnegie Exhibit Features 'Colossal' Dino-Skeletons

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Digging for two months in a dusty southwestern Wyoming quarry, paleontologists finally found what one of the world's richest men had demanded -- bones from the "most colossal animal ever." It was July 4, 1899.

On Monday, in an air-conditioned hall at Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Oakland, artists wielding pencil-sized flathead screwdrivers carefully put that animal's bones back together.

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Carnegie Exhibit Features 'Colossal' Dino-Skeletons

Diplodocus carnegii is back in Pittsburgh.

"This is, basically, the dinosaur that started it all for the museum," said Matt Lamanna, assistant curator fo...

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