sentences:  When Colossus died on 14 April 1963, its body was deposited in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.At that time, its skeleton was measured and found to be in total length, and the length of its fresh hide was measured as – both measurements being significantly shorter than what had been previously estimated in 1956.The hide tends to stretch from the skinning process, thus may be longer than the snake from which it came – e.g., by roughly 20–40% or more.