Museum to remove size zero dinosaur
LONDONâS Natural History Museum will remove a fat-shaming dinosaur exhibit, it hasÂ confirmed. For decades the slender diplodocus, with every single one of its ribs visible, has greeted visitors with its trim and once-enviable late-Jurassic physique. But campaigners have long argued that it sent out the wrong message about what constitutes a healthy exhibit and caused peopleÂ to judge woolly mammoths harshly. Curator Wayne Hayes said: âThe diplodocus skeleton set an unattainable standard in 180ft-long sauropod beauty. âFashions change in the museum world, and we need to reflect that with a massive dead animal that celebrates its natural curves.â From 2017 the diplodocus will be replaced by a blue whale, which curators believe more accurately reflects modern Britain with its unfocused spirituality, constant consumptionÂ and thick layer of blubber. Hayes continued: âWeâve had the whale in storage since 1891 but the public just werenât ready to accept the voluptuous beauty of a size-4,820 exhibit before now. âDippy the diplodocus is a product of its time, 65 million years ago, when society believed you could never be too thin or have too long a neck.â Â