Dippy the Diplodocus in the home of rock

[Bobby Rico]

Spent a nice Sunday afternoon with Mrs Rico and Dippy the Diplodocus. For more than a century the much-loved 23-metre long dinosaur skeleton has held centre stage at the Natural History Museum London, but now it is on a nationwide tour .

The genus Diplodocus was first described in 1878 by Othniel Charles Marsh. The fossilised skeleton from which Dippy was cast was discovered in Wyoming in 1898, and acquired by the Scottish-American industrialist Andrew Carnegie and sold to the National History Museum for £2000 .  It was cast in 1902 and mounted in 1907.

 

Dippy was replaced in NHM by a giant blue whale skeleton my forth favourite creature. Obviously a legend like Dippy is hard to replaced. I have also add some beautiful old photos of Dippy in London.

[Bobby Rico]

[Bobby Rico]

And few of the other attractions 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Nicely presented, Bobby!

I love Dippy. 

[Bobby Rico]

Just now, Tidgy's Dad said:

Nicely presented, Bobby!

I love Dippy. 

Thanks Adam I hope they find a nice place for it when the tour ends. If it’s not going back to London. A national treasures. 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Just now, Bobby Rico said:

Thanks Adam I hope they find a nice place for it when the tour ends. If it’s not going back to London. A national treasures. 

Indeed. 

I heard it was going back to London and being stored away somewhere.

[Bobby Rico]

1 minute ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

Indeed. 

I heard it was going back to London and being stored away somewhere.

Sad

[Bone guy]

48 minutes ago, Bobby Rico said:

The fossilised skeleton from which Dippy was cast was discovered in Wyoming in 1898, and acquired by the Scottish-American industrialist Andrew Carnegie and sold to the National History Museum for £2000 .

So you're telling me a sauropod skeleton was sold for around $2,400? That is half the price of a diplodocus claw I saw get sold a while ago. 

[Troodon]

Nice tour thanks for the photos

[caldigger]

1 hour ago, Bone guy said:

So you're telling me a sauropod skeleton was sold for around $2,400? That is half the price of a diplodocus claw I saw get sold a while ago. 

Of course 2000£ was worth much more at that time.

[Bone guy]

6 minutes ago, caldigger said:

Of course 2000£ was worth much more at that time.

Yes but nowadays I would assume it would be worth at least a few million.

[ynot]

Nice displays, thanks for sharing.