Stegosaurs

stegosaurs were plant eating so they are herbivors. They lived in the Jurassic period so they were not with Hadroaurs and Pachycephalosuarus and the Iguanodons they were in the curatasuos.The stego had to be strong with it legs because there were not alot of flowering plants. So arcologist think that they could go up on they back legs and stand for a while so i could grab leaves of the trees.There back legs could support there body wieght and the front legs were shorter but they had powerfull sholders. The stego had plates on its back and down onto there tail and they were probley used for defence.People think that maybe that other dino's bite into the plates so they would not reach the stego. Othey people think since they had muslce in the plates that they would rub them toghether and they would make a clacking sound so that would sacre the other dino off. Other people think maybe they were like butterfly's they had spots on the plats so that other dinos could not scare or jump up on them. The front legs had 5 short toes and the back legs had 3 toes. Also it stood about 14 feet tall on 4's.

=food= the stegosaurus swollowed stones or gravil to digest their food > predators but one of the predators was the allosaur. the allosaur was like t-rex but a little smaller > they would swing their tail in defense against their enemie =features=
 * the stegosaurus mostly liked to eat ferns because they were plant eaters
 * the stegosaurus also liked to eat horsetails, smaller club mosses, cycads, and bushy confiers =predators=
 * they had many their tail was called a thagomizer
 * their brain was as small as a walnut and it wieghed about twentyone and a half ounces
 * the stegosaurus relied on its spikey tail to defend itself
 * the stegosaurus lived in herds so they werent on their own for defense
 * they also used their to recoonize each other form other dions
 * scientists also believe that the stegosaurus had their spikes on their back to help them release heat so they were like radiators
 * they were about 20 feet long
 * the stegosaurus means covered lizard or roof lizard
 * they weighed about 5 to 10 tons
 * they were cold blooded animals
 * they had 17 spikes on their back
 * segosaurus is about the size of a elephant
 * they had a very small head with a tiny brian and a toothless beak the plates on the stegosaurus back were about 2.5 feet long
 * stegosaurus were clade animals which means they are simular in apperance and posture and shape
 * =family=
 * theya were realted to the apatosaurus dinos
 * in the stegosaurs family there was also the kentrosaurus and the tuojiangosuarus
 * some scientists beileve that the stegosaurus had a second brain in the hip area
 * the segosarus were calssified as a member of the family stegosuaridae
 * in the stegosaurus family all the dinos had different amount of plates on their back
 * the stegosaurus had two families within the infraorder stegosauria and the huayangosauridae
 * in the stegosaurs family there was also the kentrosaurus and the tuojiangosuarus
 * some scientists beileve that the stegosaurus had a second brain in the hip area
 * the segosarus were calssified as a member of the family stegosuaridae
 * in the stegosaurus family all the dinos had different amount of plates on their back
 * the stegosaurus had two families within the infraorder stegosauria and the huayangosauridae