BBC Wildlife Magazine

Go WILD!

EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHT

Monster at the museum

Titanosaur

Natural History Museum, until 7th Jan 2024

ONE OF THE LARGEST CREATURES EVER to have walked the earth arrives in London this spring. A cast of the titanosaur (Patagotitan mayorum), makes its European debut in Titanosaur: Life as the Biggest Dinosaur, at the Natural History Museum.

The sheer scale of the titanosaur is awe-inspiring. Four times heavier than the museum’s Dippy the diplodocus and 12m longer than Hope the blue whale, the cast barely fits inside its 9m-high gallery.

Visitors can walk under the titanosaur, see how they size up next to its femur and even smell

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from BBC Wildlife Magazine

BBC Wildlife Magazine1 min read
Coelacanth
Lived 420 m.y.a to the present day THIS ELUSIVE FISH STILL inhabits some deep parts of the Indian Ocean, but up until the mid-20th century it was thought to be long-extinct. Then, in 1938, a strange-looking, 1.5m-long fish was caught off the coast of
BBC Wildlife Magazine1 min read
Photo CLUB
I took this photo of a true crab and its reflection in Ponnani, Kerala. True crabs, in the infraorder Brachyura, have four pairs of walking legs behind their claws. Shibu Kesav Kerala, India These brown bears were playfighting in Katmai National Park
BBC Wildlife Magazine3 min read
Could This Be Evidence Of Beavers?
WALKING MY DOGS DOWN BY A LOCAL chalk stream recently, I noticed some large holes and wondered what might have caused them. The holes were very close to the water so I didn’t think they could have been made by badgers. I also spotted a branch gnawed

Related Books & Audiobooks