Overview
- The life-sized skeletal replica has been completed and installed at the Tellus Science Museum in Cartersville, Georgia.
- Museum staff describe the display as the most complete and most current life-size skeletal model of the species assembled to date.
- Tellus says it is currently the only museum with a cast of Deinosuchus schwimmeri on public view.
- The build used high-resolution 3D scans of original fossils and was developed with palaeontologist David Schwimmer in partnership with Triebold Paleontology.
- Recognized as a distinct eastern species in 2020, D. schwimmeri lived about 83–76 million years ago, reached roughly 30–32 feet, and left bite marks on dinosaur bones that indicate active predation.