Buena Vista Museum of Natural History & Science

Photograph courtesy of the Buena Vista Museum of Natural History & Science

Massive. Huge. Titanic.

The thigh bone of titanosaurus, maybe the largest dinosaur to ever walk the earth, was 8 feet in length and thick as a tree trunk.

On Tuesday, its replica barely fit in the freight elevator at the Buena Vista Museum of Natural History & Science in downtown Bakersfield.

“If it was a real Titanosaurus fossil it would probably weigh six or seven tons,” said museum board member and retired biology teacher Dave Hanley as he and other volunteers wrestled the cast upstairs.

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