Social media users get Dippy over museum dinosaur’s retirement

Dippy the Diplodocus has become a monster trending hit on Twitter as supporters rally to stop him being put out to pasture by the Natural History Museum — and being replaced by a blue whale from Wexford Harbour.

The news that the 26m-long plaster dinosaur skeleton is to be moved out of the museum’s main hall to make way for a blue whale quickly set Twitter alight.

Hundreds of people voiced their surprise and outrage at the move on the social network, using the hashtag #SaveDippy, and signed an online petition calling for the decision to be dropped.