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Re: Swimming stegosaurs?



On 5/26/2015 4:48 PM, Ronald Orenstein wrote:
OK, how long before someone suggests (I mean, seriously) that
stegosaurid plates allowed the swimming dinosaurs to ward of predators
by mimicking a school of sharks?

Don't be silly. Obviously they acted as rudders, or sails perhaps.

Why stop there?  Stegosaurs, the beavers of the Jurassic...

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http://pygs.geoscienceworld.org/content/early/2015/05/07/pygs2015-354.abstract?sid=61638608-d5b3-4c30-835a-764c85e0d0cd

That would be quite a sight, seeing those plates go by on the water,
like a train of shark fins...