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Call him Mr. Big * USA - 3 city buses = 1 Dino
* New York - This newly discovered dinosaur is as long as 3 city buses
... Then again, it might just be Ms. — even the folks at the American Museum of Natural History aren’t sure. In fact, they have lots of questions about the titanosaur, whose fiberglass-cast skeleton was unveiled this week to the tune of the “2001: A Space Odyssey” theme... But one thing’s for sure: Measuring 122 feet long and 20 feet high, the as-yet-unnamed dino is the biggest thing in the place. It’s so large, its head and neck extend into the hallway outside its fourth-floor gallery... Its fossilized remains were discovered in 2014 in Argentina’s Patagonia region. Paleontologist Diego Pol, who received his Ph.D. at the museum, sent his mentor a photo of himself sprawled next to an 8-foot-long fossil... You can see the femur and a few other fossils at the museum before they tour the world. And the titanosaur? Happily, it’s here to stay... How long did it take to create that life-size cast?. The cast, based on 84 excavated fossil bones, was made in six months by a Canadian firm working closely with Argentina’s Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio...
(Image: This it's Mr. Big) -- NY, USA - The NY Post, by Barbara Hoffman - January 16, 2016
Labels: rare news
CHALLENGE SLOW BUSES * USA - Man on Tricycle Outspeeds 42nd Street Bus
New York,NY,USA -NBC New York, by Susannah Griffee -Apr 6, 2011: -- A man riding a child's tricycle beat the M42 bus in a race across town just to show how slowly it really moves... Mark Malkoff, a comedic filmmaker from Queens, raced the M42 bus for more than a mile on 42nd Street from 10th Avenue to Madison Avenue. Riding 4.7 mph, he clocked in at 12 minutes and 42 seconds, almost three minutes faster than the bus... Malkoff told NBC New York he got the idea for the race when he saw children riding Big Wheels on the street... (Photo: My Damn Channel)Labels: rare news
