Just its thigh bone is longer than the height of a standard front door:
The replica skeleton is being loaned from Argentina's Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio , whose staff excavated the animal's giant bones in 2014.A photo of one of the researchers lying alongside a femur, or thigh bone, to illustrate the animal's great size was printed in newspapers around the world.
"That single leg bone measures 2.4m and weighs over 500 kilos," said Ms Marron. "We'll also have a full set of arm bones. Animals like Patagotitan and another creature called Argentinosaurus were right up there. Who exactly was the biggest of them all is difficult to say. In part that's because not all the bones for some of these dinosaurs have been found, making estimates of their true size a little uncertain.
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