The rare Brachiosaurus bone that made international headlines in early 2020 has been joined by another major find from that dinosaur. The amazing people of the Utah Field House of Natural History Museum in Vernal made the announcement on Wednesday. “After a bit of an absence, we got back out to the Brachiosaurus site you may have last heard about in January of 2020,” they shared. “It turns out that lying next to the humerus removed by the Clydesdales Darla and Molly in 2019 was a rib of the same Brachiosaurus under a sandstone boulder…The fun part is that this rib is about 6 foot 6 inches long — once again longer than any member of the field crew is tall!” Both bones belong to a 30-ton Brachiosaurus in the desert of southern Utah. This is only the second Brachiosaurus ever found in Utah and only the tenth of this very rare dinosaur in the world. Weighing probably around 30 to 40 tons, the almost giraffe-like Brachiosaurus was larger than most of its contemporaries. Now both massive bones are safely out of the elements and in the museum in Vernal, ready to be worked on in the lab.
