Word: excelsus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yale's new Peabody Museum, the skeleton of Brontosaurus excelsus, a huge plant-eating dinosaur, was placed on formal exhibition by Director Richard Swann Lull.? Discovered in 1881 in the Como Bluff, near Medicine Bow (Wyo.), Yale's Brontosaurus was the first of its genus and species made known to science, is the type specimen. It is nearly 70 ft. long, weighs 6½ tons, is 120,000,000 years old. The skeleton remained unmounted until the University could provide a sufficiently large and substantial place for its display. Another smaller Brontosaurus is in Manhattan's American Museum of Natural...
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