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Giant Dino Is Hide n' Seek Champion
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03-02-2011 12:14pm#1How the heck does a 90 foot long dinosaur 'go missing'??????!?!?!!? :eek:
Read more here.Barosaurus were rare dinosaurs. One of the few skeletons ever found was uncovered by paleontologist Earl Douglass during his excavations of Utah’s Dinosaur National Monument in the early 20th century. As with many specimens from this site, the bones were sent to Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Natural History, but in 1962 they were traded to the ROM in Toronto, Canada.
The skeleton was thought at the time to be a Dipolodocus—which it does resemble, albeit with a proportionally longer neck and shorter tail. The ROM intended to include it in a revamped dinosaur exhibit set to debut in 1970, but the skeleton was left in storage due to a lack of floorspace. The sauropod expert Jack McIntosh later recognized the bones as belonging to Barosaurus, but after this point the skeleton simply sat in museum storage, effectively forgotten.
The bones were finally dusted off in 2007. With the ROM planning to open a new dinosaur hall, the museum assigned paleontologist David Evans, their new Associate Curator of Vertebrate Palaeontology, to find a sauropod skeleton for the exhibit. Evans investigated numerous options, from using a cast to finding a new specimen, and while searching for dinosaurs in Wyoming he came across McIntosh’s reference to a Barosaurus at the ROM. Evans immediately flew back to Toronto, and after a bit of searching he discovered the dinosaur’s lost skeleton.
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