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Article: Al's awfully big adventure; The discovery of the most complete dinosaurs skeleton ever has brought a tragic tale to life. Olivia Convey reports.(Arts)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- December 18, 2000
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Byline: Olivia Convey
He lived fast and died young - a tough, thick-skinned dude with attitude. Big Al loved and lost, fought and lost, but still came out a winner as 145 million years after his death the dinosaur has finally become a star.
This late Jurassic-era Allosaurus roamed the wide, open spaces of Wyoming for just over six years, the most minuscule of moments in the many millennia that have passed since his death, as a ten metre-long monster of the past.
But those six years were packed with action that left its mark on this energetic ...