The life-size fiberglass model depicts Dippy, or Diplodocus carnegii, considered the most famous single dinosaur skeleton in the world.

Dippy was created in 1999 by the Carnegie Museums in tribute to the 100th anniversary of an expedition—financed by Andrew Carnegie—which discovered Diplodocus fossils in the badlands of Wyoming.

Team member Arthur Coggeshall joked that the fossil should be called "Star-Spangled Dinosaur", because of its July 4 finding.

Dippy the sculpture was created during a nine-month process from the original fossil, which still stands indoors in the museum's Dinosaur Hall.

[1] The same year that the sculpture was created, the six-part nature documentary television miniseries Walking With Dinosaurs produced by the BBC Science Unit was released.