STEGOSAURUS

stĕgəsôrˈəs [Gr.,=roof lizard], quadriped ornithischian dinosaur of the late Jurassic period. About 29 ft 6 in (9 m) long, it had short forelegs, four long bony spikes on a flexible tail, and two rows of upright triangular bony plates running along the back, which gave it a serrated profile. The function of the plates is debated. They may have acted as deterrents to predatory dinosaurs. Another theory is that they helped regulate body temperature by dissipating heat or absorbing solar rays. The head of Stegosaurus was small, and the brain weighed about 2.5 oz (71 grams). The front of the mouth was beak-shaped; there were small leaf-shaped teeth in the cheek area. An herbivore, Stegosaurus, along with Ankylosaurus, belongs to the group of armored dinosaurs, Thyreophora. Fossil skeletons have been found in the Jurassic beds of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming.

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books on: Stegosaurus  - 104 results

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The Eternal Trail: A Tracker Looks at Evolution
Book by Martin Lockley; Perseus Publishing, 2000
Subjects: Animal Tracks, Evolution (Biology), Footprints, Fossil, Tracking And Trailing
...the tangible and intangible realms. Stegosaurus tracks vividly illustrate the elusiveness...paleontological spirit world. Though Stegosaurus s bones are prized material trophies...museums, the tracks that tell us where Stegosaurus roamed free have proved very hard to...
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Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud
Book by Robert L. Park; Oxford University Press, 2000
Subjects: Fraud In Science--United States, Science--Social Aspects--United States
...Zoo. But if someone tells you a stegosaurus is running down Fifth Avenue, you...be "possible" that hes seen a stegosaurus, but its far more likely that he saw a dog and thought it was a stegosaurus. Indeed, most reasonable people...
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Symphony of the Earth
Book by J. H.F. Umbgrove; Nijhoff, 1950
Subjects: Geology
...evident. The haphazard accumulation of Stegosaurus bones, shown in fig. 14 A , have been...imagination was needed to picture a Stegosaurus couple strolling around in search of...nervous system of these creatures. Stegosaurus had very little brains. In proportion...
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The Ways of Life
Book by Richard Swann Lull; Harper & Brothers, 1925
Subjects: Evolution (Biology), Life (Biology)
...not always clear where they belonged. Stegosaurus itself, which gives its name to the...and was contemporaneous with them. Stegosaurus possessed armor in the form of huge...of Fig. 15. -- Armored Dinosaur, Stegosaurus, modified from Lull. a roof, as its...
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Organic Evolution
Book by Richard Swann Lull; Macmillan, 1926
Subjects: Evolution
...offense. But the nervous system of Stegosaurus is the most remarkable feature, for...of the elephantine brain, while in Stegosaurus the cerebrum constituted hardly more...frequent and effective use. The life of Stegosaurus was not psychological, but essentially...
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journal articles on: Stegosaurus  - 20 results

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Cognitive Structure, Content Knowledge, and Classificatory Reasoning
Journal article by Yujing Ni; Journal of Genetic Psychology, Vol. 159, 1998
Subjects: Categorization (Psychology)
...but it had three horns on its head. Stegosaurus was a plated dinosaur. It had big plates...dinosaur or a horned dinosaur? H. Did Stegosaurus have big plates or small plates? I...bird-hipped" dinosaurs? B. Was Stegosaurus a "bird-hipped" dinosaur? C. Were...
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Six Words of Writing, Many Layers of Significance: An Examination of Writing as Social Practice in an Early Grade Classroom
Journal article by Pauline Harris, Phil Fitzsimmons, Barbra Mckenzie; Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, Vol. 27, 2004
Subjects: Authors--Practice, Authors--Vocational guidance, Writers--Practice, Writers--Vocational guidance
...drawing a three-dimensional model of a stegosaurus. He drew a bit, sat back, looked...example, he was observed sketching a stegosaurus model with meticulous accuracy--until...his own activity (such as sketching a stegosaurus). Away from other children, status...
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Dinosaurs of Great Britain and the Role of the Geological Society of London in Their Discovery: Ornithischia
Journal article by Darren Naish, David M. Martill; Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. 165, 2008
Subjects: Dinosaurs, Fossils, History
...and would have belonged to animals comparable in size with Stegosaurus (total length 7-9 m). The columnar bone shape and presence...Galton Boine 1980) and therefore similar in size to that of Stegosaurus. Ornithopoda The name Ornithopoda is today restricted to...
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Engaging First Grade Students in a Geoscience Campus Field Trip
Journal article by Jennifer Saltzman, Adina Paytan; Journal of Geoscience Education, Vol. 55, 2007
Subjects: College campuses, Colleges & universities, Experiential learning, Field trips, Graduate studies, Learning centers, Science, Student attitudes, Teaching assistants, Teaching methods, University students
...Supplies: Photos or transparencies of Tyrannosaurus rex, Stegosaurus, footprint fossils, and plant fossils Ammonite (about...dinosaurs with the pictures of the Tyrannosaurus rex and the Stegosaurus. Again, we remind them that everything we know about dinosaurs...
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Artist's Projects
Journal article by Annalee Davis; Small Axe, Vol. 3, 1999
Subjects: Caribbean, English-Speaking, West Indies, British
Stegosaurus staggered by and gave the brazen Saucy Talk a cut-eye. Known for...confidence", Saucy Talk thrust out her postmodern foot and kicked Stegosaurus into the backwoods of an obscure rural district. Moments later, cowgirl...
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magazine articles on: Stegosaurus  - 23 results

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Dinosaurs in the Dirt: Amateurs Dig with Pros to Uncover the Joys of Paleontology
Magazine article by Dina Mishev; World and I, Vol. 19, October 2004
Subjects: Dinosaurs--Discovery and exploration, Paleontology, Volunteerism
...the bottom end of a stegosaurus tibia--not that the...pronounced Griffen a stegosaurus. It wasnt a big find in the literal sense--stegosauruses were 26 feet to 30 feet...was significant. A stegosaurus had never been found...
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Death of an Epic Creation
Magazine article by George Turner; American Cinematographer, Vol. 68, March 1987
...mechanical and one for animation), a stegosaurus, a pterodactyl, a styracosaurus...Steve saves her, but now an angry stegosaurus menaces the party. The four flee into...that live in the dark recesses. The stegosaurus enters and is attacked by the tyrannosaurus...
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Giving Life to Dinosaurs in Utah
Magazine article by Craig Lancto; World and I, Vol. 21, March 2006
...long thin objects Leschin identified as Stegosaurus teeth imbedded in the surrounding rock...significant display for me is the fossilized Stegosaurus skin, its color and texture breathing...with rows of teeth. Except for two Stegosaurus bones in the 1970s, nothing has been...
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Our Ever Evolving Planet
Magazine article; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 138, September 2009
Subjects: Fossils
...Rapetosarus, recently discovered in Madagascar. The armored Stegosaurus is here, as well as the homed and frilled Ceratopsians and...thyreophorans: fossilized bones of an Ankylosaur and a cast of Stegosaurus. On display as well are the fossil skeletons of two huge...
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When Dinosaurs Dominated: Ancient Creatures Arrive from China: A New Exhibition "Tells the Story of How the Planet Changed While Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth-And How This Affected the Evolution of Dinosaurs and Other Life
Magazine article; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 134, July 2005
Subjects: China--Exhibitions, Dinosaurs--Exhibitions, Dinosaurs--Origin, Fossils--Discovery and exploration, Fossils--Exhibitions, Museums--Exhibitions, Paleontology--Research
...Tuojiangosaurus (China) looked a lot like the more familiar Stegosaurus, but the plates along its back were narrower, taller...and the two rows were arranged symmetrically, while in Stegosaurus they alternate. * The duck-billed Tsintaosaurus (China...
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Dinosaurs in the Dirt; Amateurs Dig with Pros to Uncover the Joys of Paleontology
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 21, 2004
...the bottom end of a stegosaurus tibia - not that the...pronounced Griffen a stegosaurus. It wasnt a big find in the literal sense - stegosauruses were 26 feet to 30 feet...was significant. A stegosaurus had never been found...
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Free Toys; OURGREAT V GIVEAWAY GOES ON
Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), November 1, 2009
Subjects: Toys
...Daily Mirror dont miss the LEGO Creator Stegosaurus and continue collecting a FREE LEGO...THESE DAILY FROM MONDAY LEGO v Creator Stegosaurus TUESDAY LEGO v Racers Off Road Racer...THESE DAILY FROM MONDAY LEGO Creator Stegosaurus TUESDAY LEGO Racers Off Road Racer WEDNESDAY...
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Free Toys; ANOTHER AMAZING GIVEAWAY WITH THE DAILY MIRROR
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), November 2, 2009
Subjects: Toys
...Christmas. Today, get your LEGO Creator Stegosaurus. Were giving away a collection of exclusive...mirror.co.uk/lego Free LEGO Creator Stegosaurus Code 7798 To redeem in-store today...TO JOIN LEGO CLUB TODAY LEGO Creator Stegosaurus TOMORROW LEGO Racers Off Road Racer...
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Free Toys; ANOTHER AMAZING GIVEAWAY WITH THE DAILY Mirror
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), November 2, 2009
Subjects: Toys
...Christmas. Today, get your LEGO Creator Stegosaurus. Were giving away a collection of exclusive...mirror.co.uk/lego Free LEGO Creator Stegosaurus Code 7798 Pick up today, Monday November...AND TO JOIN CLUB TODAY LEGO Creator Stegosaurus TOMORROW LEGO Racers Off Road Racer...
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Big Boys' Toys
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), January 28, 2005
...championships. pounds 15.99, completegadgetshop.com Dig a Stegosaurus Before the rigours of A-Level Biology became horrifyingly...cameras arrive to document the discovery of the worlds smallest stegosaurus, you will then have an ethical dilemma as to whether or...
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encyclopedia articles on: Stegosaurus  - 3 results

 
 
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Stegosaurus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
STEGOSAURUS steg sor s Gr.,=roof lizard, quadriped...species recognize each other. The head of Stegosaurus was small, and the brain weighed about...teeth in the cheek area. An herbivore, Stegosaurus, along with Ankylosaurus , belongs...
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Dinosaur
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...there were ornithopods (bird-footed dinosaurs), such as Iguanodon ; thyreophorans (armored dinosaurs), such as Stegosaurus and Ankylosaurus ; and ceratopsians (horned dinosaurs), such as Triceratops . The total number of dinosaur genera that...
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Cretaceous Period
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...urchins, ammonites, and foraminifers. Reptiles reached their zenith, including the dinosaurs Triceratops, Tyrannosaurus, Stegosaurus, Apatosaurus (Brontosaurus), and Iguanodon, and ranged from herbivores to carnivores. Flying reptiles such as the pterosaurs...


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