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Stegosaurus Facts
Stegosaurus was a Jurassic plant-eater with bony plates along its back, spikes on its tail and a brain about the size of a walnut.
- Stegosaurus had a brain roughly the size of a walnut despite its large body.
- The plates on Stegosaurus's back may have helped regulate body temperature or served for display.
- Stegosaurus's tail spikes are informally called the 'thagomizer.'
- Tyrannosaurus and Stegosaurus lived tens of millions of years apart and never met.
- Stegosaurus lived in the Jurassic; T.rex lived at the very end of the Cretaceous.
- The Stegosaurus is the state dinosaur (or fossil) of Colorado.
- The Late Jurassic herbivore Stegosaurus ('roof lizard') lived in what is now North America — bore two rows of plates along its back.
- The Late Jurassic herbivore Kentrosaurus ('spiked lizard') lived in what is now Tanzania — an African relative of Stegosaurus.
- Stegosaurus had pointy spikes on its tail.
- Stegosaurus had bony plates along its back.
- A Stegosaurus was about as big as a bus but had a tiny brain.
- Stegosaurus had a brain about the size of a walnut.
- Stegosaurus tail spikes are nicknamed the 'thagomizer'.
- Stegosaurus means 'roofed lizard'.
- Stegosaurus lived long before T. rex.
- Stegosaurus and T. rex never met each other.
- Hesperosaurus was a relative of Stegosaurus.
- Huayangosaurus was an early plated dinosaur like a small Stegosaurus.
- Stegosaurus had plates on its back and spikes on its tail.
- Did you know a Stegosaurus brain was about the size of a walnut?
- Stegosaurus lived in the Jurassic, not the Cretaceous.