Largest dinosaur ever starts to stand tall in Chicago's Field Museum

At the Field Museum, the prey has replaced the predator.

Chicagoans are finally getting to meet the dinosaur that has kicked Sue upstairs: It's a red-hued, skinless behemoth that you'll be able to look in the eye from the museum's second-floor balcony.

Plans have been public for months about the arrival of the titanosaur from Argentina, a plant eater that many believe to be the largest land animal ever. The T. rex skeleton Sue was dismantled in February and has been rebuilt in a new, second-floor home, awaiting the construction of a surrounding exhibition.

And last week workers began erecting Maximo, the name chosen for the museum's Patagotitan mayorum skeleton cast. Last Wednesday morning it was ruddy piles of bone segments on the museum floor and by Friday it stretched 122 feet from head to tail and 28 feet from floor toward the ceiling of Stanley Field Hall, the showpiece in an ambitious makeover of the lakefront