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If you take it as a given that extinct dinosaurs were all weird and wonderful, then you gotta at least consider that Stegosaurus was one of the weirdest and most wonderful.
Thanks to Julio Lacerda and Studio 252mya for the stegosaurus illustrations. You can find more of Julio’s work here: https://252mya.com/gallery/julio-lacerda
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References:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098220901820X?via%3Dihub
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/the-stegosaurus-plate-controversy/
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/stegosaurus-plate-debate-142166929/
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2015/04/27/stegosaurus-plates-provide-first-solid-evidence-male-female-dinosaurs-looked?section=science
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/05/16_stego.shtml
http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1666/0094-8373%282005%29031%5B0291%3ATEAFOT%5D2.0.CO%3B2?journalCode=pbio
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-double-dinosaur-brain-myth-12155823/
http://www.livescience.com/24184-stegosaurus-facts.html
http://westerndigs.org/allosaurus-died-from-stegosaur-spike-to-the-crotch-wyoming-fossil-shows/
https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2014AM/webprogram/Paper247355.html
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