Berlin Natural History Museum
How tall is the world's tallest dinosaur?
The Giraffatitan skeleton in the museum's central hall stands 13.27 metres high. Set your own height and see what you are actually walking up to.
13.27 m to the head
Numbers like “13 metres” slide right past you until you stand under them. Here is the honest comparison.
cm
The Giraffatitan is 7.8× your height.
8 of you
standing on each other's shoulders to look it in the eye.
At your height you would reach roughly its knee.
For scale: a full-grown giraffe reaches only its belly, and a double-decker bus barely clears its back. This animal carried its head where a four-storey window would be.
13.27 mtall (Guinness record)
26.8 mnose to tail
~150 myears old, Late Jurassic
Tanzaniadug up 1909–1913
The real skeleton stands in the Museum für Naturkunde on Invalidenstraße (U6 Naturkundemuseum). Skeleton photo: Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Read the full visiting guide →