Looming over the museum’s central atrium, Hintze Hall, Dippy the Diplodocus has rendered generations of young visitors awestruck.
It’s also taken starring roles in movies including the recently released “Paddington,” and the 1975 Disney classic “One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing.”
The 292-bone skeleton is actually a replica, cast from fossils unearthed by railroad workers in Wyoming in 1898.
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So, Dippy isn’t heading for the bone yard just yet.
National History Museum, Cromwell Road, London; +44 20 7942 5000
