Another icon of natural history museums is the dinosaur skeleton.

As if to emphasize this the scene features a huge dinosaur skeleton hanging from the ceiling.

Along with his friends who decide to help him, Richie goes to the city museum to retrieve the bone from the dinosaur skeleton.

In 1858 the United States as home to the world's first "reasonably complete" dinosaur skeleton.

In the years that followed, enough dinosaur skeletons were discovered elsewhere to build more accurate models.

In 1868, it became the first ever mounted dinosaur skeleton.

A small museum there displays a few dinosaur skeletons and other fossils.

But the first complete dinosaur skeleton was found only in the 1880's, so Hawkins didn't have much to go on.

Open since 2000, the most notable of the museum's collection are its dinosaur skeletons.

This means that it is also the tallest and largest complete dinosaur skeleton.