LONDON (AP) — Dippy the dinosaur is being retired from London's Natural History Museum — and his fans aren't happy. The museum announced Thursday that the 85-foot (26-meter) plaster skeleton, which has been on display for more than a century, will be replaced in the main hall by the skeleton of a blue whale. Dippy is a plaster replica of a diplodocus, a dinosaur that lived in North America 150 million years ago. The original was unearthed in Wyoming in 1899 and is housed at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Natural History.Read more on NewsOK.com

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