Stegosaurus
Pronunciation: steg-OH-saw-RUS
Name Meaning: Roof Lizard
Time Period: Late Jurrasic
(155-151 million years ago)
Diet: Plants
Key Trait: Big, broad bony plates on the
back and tail spikes
Smithsonian:
The business of the Department of Paleobiology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History is using fossils to understand patterns and processes in the history of life. The Department of Paleobiology has been one of the top research bodies on extinct life since its founding in 1963. Today their fossil collections contain about 42 million fossil specimens.
