Dippy

Dippy, Diplodocus carnegii, at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. This is the original, built mostly from real fossil bone found in Wyoming on an expedition paid for by Andrew Carnegie, and its main skeleton is the specimen that defines the species named after him. It first went on view in Pittsburgh in 1907. Many people know a different Dippy. Carnegie had casts made and gave them to museums abroad, and the one unveiled in London in 1905 became the Natural History Museum's famous cast. Pittsburgh is where to see the bones those copies came from.