Get a first look at Gnatalie, the only green-boned dinosaur found on the planet

You tin sojourn Gnatalie astatine L.A.'s Natural History Museum starting November 17.

LOS ANGELES -- The Natural History Museum is introducing a caller 4-legged person to Los Angeles: Gnatalie the dinosaur!

Thanks to National Geographic, ABC7 is giving you a sneak peek.

"Gnatalie was recovered successful the Badlands of Utah successful 2007, truthful it's been astir 17 years putting Gnatalie unneurotic for this display," said Chris Weisbart, the Associate Vice President of Exhibitions astatine the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

According to the Natural History Museum, dozens of radical from L.A. were portion of the excavation process for the long-neck dinosaur, including paleontologists, researchers, and volunteers.

That's wherefore Gnatalie is being nicknamed "The assemblage dinosaur."

About 80% of the dinosaur is real. It's a composite of aggregate dinosaurs, each belonging to the aforesaid species, weighing astir 5 tons, oregon arsenic overmuch arsenic an RV.

"Gnatalie is simply a diplodocid dinosaur, which means that it walked connected land," said Weisbart. "It ate plants. It was enormously long. It's astir 75 feet long. The skeleton itself, and it lived astir 150 cardinal years ago."

The minerals successful the riverbed wherever Gnatalie's fossils were recovered is what gives the dinosaur its greenish color, the lone green-boned dinosaur connected show successful the world.

"Gnatalie was named for the biting gnats that are successful this country of the Utah Badlands. The excavation teams spell retired for months astatine a clip successful the summer, and it's precise blistery and precise filled with biting insects," Weisbart said.

From 2007, the bones person gone done a lengthy, painstaking excavation arsenic featured successful the September contented of National Geographic. Nat Geo's exclusive connected the reconstructed dinosaur tin beryllium recovered astatine NatGeo.com.

You tin sojourn Gnatalie astatine the Natural History Museum successful Exposition Park starting November 17. The grounds is free.

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