What was Stegosaurus? Stegosaurus was a very large, long-necked, plant-eating dinosaur.

Stegosaurus

Stegosaurus.

Stegosaurus was a plant-eating dinosaur. The most remarkable thing about it was a number of bony plates across its back. They supported a flap of skin that might have been used to increase the surface area of skin and so act to cool the animal.

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