Five Dippy Dino Facts
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Dippy the Dinosaur goes on tour
Dippy the Diplodocus at London's Natural History Museum is a legend, and now he's going on tour.
From 5th January 2017, the dinosaur will be taken apart piece by piece and cleaned, before visiting museums around the UK.
A huge blue whale skeleton will take his place in the Museum's main Hintze Hall.
Watch our video to find out if Dippy will be visiting a museum near you!
So in case you miss him while he gets dismantled and packed away, here's five Dippy Dino Facts to keep you going
Dippy is 109 years old and has been in the Natural History Museum's entrance hall since 1979.
Dippy is made up of 292 individual bones and arrived in London 36 packing cases.
Dippy isn't a real skeleton, he's a plaster cast of a Diplodocus found by railroad workers in Wyoming, USA in 1898. At the time newspapers billed the discovery as the "most colossal animal ever on Earth"
The Diplodocus species lived sometime between 156 and 145 million years ago and belongs to a group called sauropods, meaning 'lizard feet'
There are 10 versions of replicas like Dippy in museums around the world, including Paris, Berlin, Vienna, and Moscow.
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