UNTIL SUNDAY 1/3
CAIXAFORUM. Eduardo Primo Yúfera, 1A
The egg of a Patagotitan mayorum It was the size of a volleyball., it's not that big of a deal. but the baby Patagotitan grew at such a spectacular speed that, per year, could weigh two tons, and as an adult, reached the 38 meters long and 77 tons, the weight of fourteen African elephants. It is the largest land animal that has ever walked on the face of the Earth., and his remains have appeared in Argentine Patagonia. In 2012, while working on a farm in the province of Chubut, A farmer discovered a small bone and, digging, digging, they ended up being 200 fossils of seven specimens of a species of dinosaur that we know today as Patagotitan mayorum. The discovery was so complete that the dinosaur could be reproduced on a full scale., with its infinite neck and tail, the first to eat from the highest branches and not have to move much to look for food (and thus save energy); the second, a truly deadly weapon.
You will find the Patagotitan reproduced at full scale in the lobby of Caixaforum as a great attraction of this exhibition composed of replicas of Patagonian dinosaurs and real fossils: the vertebrae of an ornithopod (the three-toed feet), skin impressions on rock blocks or the teeth of a sauropod (those with long necks). Once inside the room, They will begin by explaining to us how such giant herbivorous animals could live (they spent the day eating) in an area that today is desert. It turns out that, at the time when these large dinosaurs developed, South America was joined to Africa in that primordial continental block called Pangea.. The Andes and the area did not exist, so, It was wooded and full of vegetation.
The enormous range of adaptation of dinosaurs to different environments and lifestyles resulted in numerous sizes, shapes and species that you can admire in the exhibition. Replicas of thirteen dinosaurs of different sizes and characteristics are on display, between them, the small Manidens condorensis, that barely weighed a kilo, or Tyrannotitan chubutensis, the carnivorous predator of our Patagotitan, with short arms and so fast that he reached thirty kilometers per hour. Dinosaurs of Patagonia discovers animals so incredible that they seem like science fiction, even knowing that paleontology has evidence that they existed when human beings had not yet shown their heads on the planet.. S.M.
