Baby long-neck dinosaur goes on display

Even the biggest creatures in the world started off as tiny babies.

That’s part of the message from a new exhibit of dinosaurs at a museum in Oklahoma.

Last month, the Sam Noble Museum put on display the fossil remains of a baby Apatosaurus. At just under three feet tall and 11 feet and 2 inches long, the juvenile dinosaur is believed to be the smallest version ever discovered of the enormous plant-eating, long-necked dinosaur.

The bones were discovered more than 70 years ago in Oklahoma but were assembled into a dinosaur skeleton only last year because, museum curator Rich Cifelli said, “Bones of the big dinosaurs got the attention.”

As part of an exhibit called “Clash of the Titans,” the itsy-bitsy dino is shown standing underneath the belly of a giant, 92-foot-long adult Apatosaurus.

The exhibit shows the adult Apatosaurus about to go into battle with a large, meat-eating Saurophaganax. The baby is made to look as if it’s about to run away, museum officials said.

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