A MOVING DINOSTORY THREE-MAN TEAMS, BATTERIES AND HYDRAULICS ENSURE THAT THE EXTINCT ARE ALWAYS 'WALKING'.(Life and Arts)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) | Date: June 30, 2007| Author: Peters, Meghan | Copyright information

Byline: MEGHAN PETERS P-I reporter

It's nearly 43 feet tall and 75 feet long with patches of scales rippling across the smooth, leathery skin that covers a 70-ton body from the tip of the tail up a long, graceful neck to meet large, blunt teeth and glimmering glass eyes sunk into a proportionally small head.

It's a brachiosaurus.

It's also a puppet.

The massive creature, which roamed the Earth about 208 million years ago, has been bro...