Icon! One of the most recognizable, popular, and sales-price-record holder, #Stegosaurus is a Late #Jurassic #dinosaur that lived in western North America. The plates were covered by a keratinous sheath, a giant “fingernail” covering the bony plates. The plates are laden with grooves where arteries and veins ran in life. This has led some to suggest the plates could change color as blood flow was maybe routed to semi-transparent spots. Imagine a big stego’s plates turning a deep red! Maybe it ha

Baby Stego partial skeleton Stegosaurus the “Roof Lizard” was named by Marsh in 1887 One of the most famous, and beloved, #dinosaurs! #Stegosaurus rocks the iconic plates and tail spike, aka the #Thagomizer, that makes it popular with every generation. This baby Stego has a few more plates, and vertebrae, in the collections. I had hoped to show more but was distracted by some cool newly prepared large BYU #sauropod bones and forgot to film the rest of it. Doh! The positioning of the plates was q

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