![The enormous Monument for the 308.](https://fabbaloo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/image-asset_img_5eb0b73830f4e.jpg)
This week’s selection is the astonishingly huge “Monument for the 308” sculpture by Andreas Greiner.
This is a massive 3D print of what appears to be a dinosaur, something like you’d seen in many notable museums. But it’s not a dinosaur; it’s actually a chicken, some twenty times life size!
Greiner explained the unusual name for this piece as inspired by a type of chicken.
![Andreas Greiner, the artist behind the Monument for the 308](https://fabbaloo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/image-asset_img_5eb0b7392c16e.jpg)
What? There are types of chickens? Yes indeed! Over the past decades the agriculture industry has bred a number of specialized livestock species for different agricultural purposes.
![Rear view of the massive 3D printed Monument for the 308 sculpture](https://fabbaloo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/image-asset_img_5eb0b73a05012.jpg)
One of them is the “Ross 308” “product”. What is a “Ross 308”? As explained here:
The Ross 308 satisfies the demands of customers who require a bird that performs consistently well and has the versatility to meet a broad range of end product requirements. The Ross 308 breeder produces a high number of eggs combined with good hatchability to optimize chick cost in situations where broiler performance is important.
The Ross 308 is recognized globally as a broiler that will give consistent performance in the broiler house. Integrated and independent producers value the growth rate, feed efficiency and robust performance of the Ross 308.
Here’s a Ross 308:
![A Ross 308 model chicken](https://fabbaloo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/image-asset_img_5eb0b73acbd0f.png)
Greiner decided to make a monument to this particular bird, and when he realized that chickens are actually descended from dinosaurs, this design became real. In fact, as far as I know, a chicken IS a dinosaur. We just don’t call them that.
The eight-meter tall sculpture is composed of a large number of parts, whose designs were obtained by 3D scanning a set of chicken bones (from a 308, obviously).
![3D scan of the skull of a Ross 308 chicken](https://fabbaloo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/image-asset_img_5eb0b73b2f22f.jpg)
The printing took place on a BigRep 3D printer, and the PLA parts were then painstakingly assembled using metal armature to hold them in place where the sculpture sits today, at the Berlinerische Galerie in Berlin.
![Andreas Greiner showing the true scale of the massive Monument for the 308 3D printed sculpture](https://fabbaloo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/image-asset_img_5eb0b73be910d.jpg)
While each of the parts are quite large and suitable for printing on a large format 3D printer such as BigRep’s, the entire sculpture is truly gigantic. It may be the largest plastic 3D print in the world.
Via YouTube