DIPPY

Feb. 27, 2022

Dippy the dinosaur, who famously stood in the entrance hall of London’s Natural History Museum for decades, returns to its home in May after concluding a four-year-long tour across the UK.

About:

  • London’s 26-metre-long Dippy is a plaster cast replica of the fossilised bones of a diplodocus carnegii skeleton.

  • The original, also known as Dippy, is on display at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Natural History.

  • Dippy was the first Diplodocus to go on display anywhere in the world when it was gifted to the Museum in 1905.

  • The fossilised skeleton from which Dippy was cast was discovered in Wyoming in 1899.

  • Dippy is considered the most famous single dinosaur skeleton in the world.