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for London, now in the Natural History Museum. Other European heads of state

copied him. Now, ‘Dippy’ or Diplodocus carnegei, as he is more properly known, is
all over the world – Madrid, Frankfurt, Chicago and London. Its head is a cast of the
original skull but, because that skull is so rare, casts from the same skull are found on
dinosaurs all over the world. Museums tend to pop that head on a lot of dinosaur
skeletons for show to the public. His head is one of the most viewed sauropod
dinosaur heads in the world.

It is bizarre to think that, of all the sauropods that ever lived in South America,
this is the only skull to have made it across the millions of years. Now it is part of a

scientific collection in the busy city of São Paulo. But it’s unlikely that other
museums will have a cast of this dinosaur’s head. It’s just too precious.