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OCR: Barosaurus THE BAROSAURUS IS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR AND DRAMATIC exhibits the Museum depicting mother Barosaurus as she rears up to protect her baby from an attacking Allosaurus. Pivoting to thwart the predator advance she is about to drop down onto the Allosaurus in an attempt to crush it Her baby hides behind her shielded by her enormous body. It is a scene that evokes the primal drama of predator and prey. Yet for all its realism this product of the human imagination. While scientists think that such an event could have occurred they do not know whether Barosaurus could actually rise up like this or even that an Allosarus would have attacked Barosaurus The neck and skull of the baby dinosaur were found jumbled together with the fossil bones of other dinosaurs dmop