New dinosaur species reconstructed for display in Los Angeles

ABC News has a video of a new dinosaur display being constructed in Los Angeles.  Nicknamed “Gnatalie”, it’s thought to be a new speces of sauropod dinosaur that lived around 150 million years ago in the late Jurassic.  The display will open November 2024.  National Geographic has an article in the September edition of its magazine.

Discovered in Utah, it’s believed to belong to the herbivore species of long-neck dinosaurs. It’s the only green dinosaur on display in the world, due to minerals where the fossils were found.

 

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