Tampa museum to receive loan of record-setting dinosaur skeleton

A dinosaur skeleton of a triceratops, dubbed Big John, will go on display at the Glazer Children’s Museum in Tampa on Memorial Day weekend. Image courtesy of the Glazer Children’s Museum
A dinosaur skeleton of a triceratops, dubbed Big John, will go on display at the Glazer Children’s Museum in Tampa on Memorial Day weekend. Image courtesy of the Glazer Children’s Museum
A dinosaur skeleton of a triceratops, dubbed Big John, will go on display at the Glazer Children’s Museum in Tampa on Memorial Day weekend. Image courtesy of the Glazer Children’s Museum

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) – The Glazer Children’s Museum in Tampa is champing at the bit to show off the real dinosaur skeleton it is getting – not one of those plaster or robotic ones. It’s nicknamed Big John after the South Dakota rancher whose land was the final resting place for the ancient bones, which set a Guinness record for the largest triceratops skeleton ever uncovered.

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