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Stegosaurus
(‘Roof lizard’)
Herbivore
Late Jurassic period, 150 MYA
Found in: Europe and Eastern North America
Lived in: Forests and vegetated plains
Brain power
Stegosaurus was not a very
smart dinosaur – it had a brain
no larger than a dog’sSlow and steady
Its short, stumpy legs
meant that Stegosaurus
could barely walk faster
than a human beingBony plates
Stegosaurus had 17 plates
along its backHefty giant
Stegosaurus weighed
about 5,000kg – that’s
about half as much as a
double-decker busFossilised remains
This is a bony plate from
the back of a StegosaurusTail spikes
The spike at the end of a
Stegosaurus’s tail was
called a thagomiserDino skill
Stegosaurus had sharp 60-90cm-long
tail spikes that it could swing at an
attacker to defend itself.Stegosaurus
Killer rating: 1/
Speed: 1/
Defence: 3/Stegosaurus’s
distinctive back plates
may have been a type
of air conditioning.
Air cooled the blood
running through
the platesFact