Stegosaurus: An Iconic Dinosaur of the Jurassic Period | Dinosaur Documentary 

It’s amazing to think that the same stegosaurus that we have found today were already fossilized when Tyrannosaurus were alive.

We are closer in time to Tyrannosaurus than it was to Stegosaurus... 70-80 million years before it.

My favorite bit about the Stego is that the spikes at the end are called Thagomizers after a Far Side Comic. It always made me laugh.

Although instantly recognisable, i still feel it is underrepresented in an educational format.

I remember when I first heard that t rexes live closer to humans than to stegasauruses, it blew my mind. It really shows how long dinosaurs ruled the planet.

Ah yes my favorite dinosaur as a kid. My son really loves trex but my daughter likes the stegosarus

Stegosaurus is one of my favorites. I know I am not alone. The movie King Kong did it a disservice by how it was depicted as a possible mindless killer. Thank you very much for featuring this fantastically interesting dinosaur.

Stegosaurus has always been a favorite of mine. Seeing this made my day. I feel I learned much more about it then what I already knew which is always a plus!

Stegosaurus is my absolute favorite dinosaur. always was and always will be. i love the design and also how famous he became in many movies and media. i dont know where i first got introduced to this beautiful beast but when i did i was in love with it. Its amazing as well that we are closer to T.rex than T.rex was closer to Stegosaurus wich is even more mindblowing. I'll never get enough of dinosaurs.

Yep stegosaurus 100% the most iconic dinosaur of the jurassic!!!

I love stegosaurus because of its plates, small head and possible peaceful nature I would like to see one walk through a forest

The scientific name for the tail Spikes are called thangomiser

horn cores also have blood vessels . It is only solid on the outer sheath . If you are familiar with cattle , those plates are horn cores . The tail spikes in allosauras bones pretty much proves self defense

I think it was shaped so oddly and seemingly lifted in the rear so it could get really good leverage when pivoting on its front inside foot for swinging its tail with deadly force. Thats what i think anyways...

That scene from King Kong at 3:09 thrilled me more than words can say when the stegosaurus first appeared, as a 9 year-old. It may well be why this magnificent animal remains my top favorite dinosaur.

this video is interesting and well made. it´s surprising how much we can learn even about such a well-known dinosaur, we ourselves "knew about" from our childhood days. i sadly i don´t have the dinosaur related books from back then anymore, so i can´t remember all the details. but it´s for sure that very miuch of the information about the dinosaurs has changed since then. and who can say which knowledge we might have another 25 or 30 years from now on.

Just remember: the spikey end is called the Thagomizer, after the late Thag Simmons

My grandma gave me a plush of the stegosaurus from Jurassic Park II; and it has since been my favorite dinosaur.

Stegosaurus 1 of my favs

Another excellent entry......thank you!!! My friend's granddaughter goes CrAzY for the Stegosaurus. 🙃😱🤓🥰

I wanna see more anklyasour videos!

What’,s more amazing,is Ankor Wat.A stone relief shows the known animals.one of the oldest,and depicted perfectly was Stegosaurus.

Always was my favourite - never in doubt

My most favourite herbivore dino

The fact so many of these creatures the famous ones how far apart they actually were in time!

Great video ❤

My first dinosaur the Stegosaurus

Although several of the *Dromaeosaurs* are my favorite dinosaurs, *Stegosaurus* is my favorite herbivorous dinosaur.

Is this a live narrator or computer generated?

My favorite dinosaur when I was a kid. It still bugs the hell out of me that they cut her out of Jurassic Park. That was such a dirty move. 🦖

It's interesting to imagine how they mated. Allosaurus was not a large Carnotaurus. I think that was just a slip.

Amazing video about Stegosaurus :D

Cope and Marsh were highly competent paleontologists for their time, but their egos were exceeded by none. If they had been as interested in advancing science as in outdoing each other, their contributions would have been enormously increased. For instance today we hardly ever hear of a paleontologist hiring mercenaries to dynamite the dig site and finds of another. The term Bone Wars is not just an expression. Their main publications can be found in the Smithsonian section of a big Federal Documents Department such as at Texas Tech University. Cope's book is a relatively normal size except for being nearly as thick as an unabridged dictionary, needing a book stand to read easily. Marsh's is coffee table size, almost literally, because the margins take up half the page width, obviously just to make the book impressively big. When I say ego, I mean EGO.

Can we get a video on the Bone Wars mentioned?

I might be wrong, but I seem to remember that stegosaurus had two brains.

These robot voices be killing me!

The repetitive music soundtrack is overpowering the narration.

i love dinosaurs RWARRR 🦕💥

Wait, I just realized a flaw in the side plate for display theory... Their back legs were longer to raise the tail higher, and front legs shorter to drop the nose down, making eating easier. So ass up nose down, focused on eating vegetation in a niche. So how the heck are the girls going to see the show, when their stance is looking down and it was really hard for them to raise their heads. I have no idea what they were for, but displaying on top of the back, seems like the,,, that is where id hide important things i wouldn't want to be found

IF I was Made to make a decision I suppose I say they were Dumber than a whole $hit-Ton of Gnats, you know, those little $hits that bite like holy hell. You know they say Domestic Turkeys will drown themselves in a hard rain, too stupid to get out of the weather, I'm seeing 'Ole Stego in the same kind of mind-frame.

The music in the introduction is a bit loud

The images of your videos are amazing. The content is excellent and your voice is extremely beautiful 🎉🎉🎉. Thanks for this video

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This is a great video on a famous dinosaur that is still not given any of the respect it deserves, simply because it's stupidly derided as being (a) forever stupid, an ironic amount of stupidity coming from a creature purported to be the 'brainiest' of the lot! and (b) a plant eater, so nowhere near as 'exciting' as the large predators and (c) as of the Late Jurassic, is seen as less worthy to know than the last survivors at the end of the dinosaur reign. Sad, really. I love much about this video, but I do wonder still about certain things. Why, for instance, is it worried about that the form of Stegosaurus needs to change again? Presumably we have as accurate a picture of what is looks like/is presented these days than we ever will, I don't see what else would/could need to change about that? What DOES need to change is the pointless and rather brainless (ironic huh?) derision over its brain size? I might add that it points out to me our incredible human stupidity over portraying a whole huge group of animals as "slow, stupid, ill equipped for life and prone to extinction". The fact that something has evolved to deliberately go instinct over not even a recorded nor hypothesized period of time shows me just how incredibly dumb the human race were back then, and they don't seem to have moved on much now. In fact, for all OUR so-called big brains, who is the one species with the ability to actively destroy and not re-create whole areas of the planet at once, including the oceans, somewhere we don't even largely venture, all for the sake of our economic want and need for all sorts of things-mainly living beings-we don't even NEED to survive, as it's been well-recognised for a long long time we don't NEED animals to eat, wear etc. yet we STILL do, even though this unnatural way of life, apart from highly immoral, is the main contributing factor to the overwhelming amount of problems affecting our planet (and the only one we got). Back when Stegosaurus lived, and every other dinosaur, whenever awful climatic disasters happened, it was NEVER their fault. WE'RE the only species known to bring about this woeful chains of events, whilst being not only stupendously thick enough and arrogant enough to pretend we're not, but to even believe WE (course of our 'superior' non-normal animal brain) can not only survive it, but will flourish from it. God if dinosaurs could go into the Tardis, flash to the future and back again, they'd tell, in their own language, true tales of our outrageous stupidity despite having the largest brain-to body ratio of anything! Let's review-we have that, yet we're sending everything and ourselves to perpetual and premature disaster, and presumably proud of it. Stegosaurus, the "thickest of the thickest bunch of veterbrates ever" lived successfully as a species for at least 10MYA, despite it's so-called tiny brain (to us) surely meaning it wouldn't be able to", whilst doing nothing at all to harm its environment or hasten its own end? Now how stupid is that. Stegosaurus-SOOO STUPID, it even thrived in spite of itself! Maybe when WE make it to 10 or 12MY, or long after to be honest, as species, THEN maybe ONLY then, we can call them stupid and "non-functioning", more out of a bitter reflex than anything else!

like trex

Beware the thagomiser!😮

Why did you show a Triassic scene when discussing famous dinosaurs of the Cretaceous? This sort of goofiness occurs frequently in these videos and mars what could otherwise be good videos.

Stego would be Bad-a$$, but still, it's predators were far more Hard-core, think about it, their main weapon of destruction was their Face

Ironic you mention Othneilosaurus and Drinker, as both of these have now been subsumed into the genus Nanosaurus, which you DON'T mention as a Late Jurassic stalwart of the North American scene. You also didn't mention the fact that a number of scientists state that Stegosaurus could raise itself up on its strong hind legs, using its tail as a tripod to feed some 15ft or so off the ground. I don't see why they shouldn't have been able to do this, many of the giant sauropods could rear, though likely not the Brachiosaurids, and today African Elephants can do so, goats climb trees and you'd never know it to look at either of them! And don't you mean 'carnosaur', not Carnotaurus, which is not in the Allosaurid group at all. We know now that Saurophaganx is NOT Allosaurus. Looking at the size-o-graphs, surely the Stegosaurus grew bigger than that compared to humans? They don't seem very large at all here, surely they were comparable in size to the ceratopsians, the ankylosaur/nodosaur branch being rather smaller. Love you showing the few scenes "Jurassic Park 2/Lost World" of the stegosaurs, they seemed to have oversized them, but don't they with everything, I'm just glad they featured, rather than standing there distant backdrop like ALL the plant eaters do in these bleeding films that seem to do nothing for herbivores, and just exhibit more falsehoods of dinosaurs, the biggest crime of many being the "velociraptor" lie-these dinosaurs NEVER in the movie, they are turkey hunters with long narrow skulls, likely did not pack hunt and had to endure a desert-like environment, not a rainforest! The ones in the film were based on (oversized) Deinonychus, which again are wrong size-wise. And again, the pack hunting thing against larger animals is not a given, and certainly not proved in all the large to huge predators, who would likely only want their own meal. It's true a small group may briefly work together to try and down one, but for how long could/would they co-operate? And also how long would they stay in harm's way before realising a stalemate against dangerous prey was not working to their advantage?

Intelligents doesn't mean shite, hes eating grass not trying to grow it.

Go terror birds go

Friendly and non-existent with both 😅

A petrified stegosaurus has been discovered on my property in Killingworth Connecticut. Can send photos to anyone interested. Buddy Jenkins, PhD

Talk about an animal the size of a Bus

Gay is the WordPress and Strickland 😊

Like.., we're closer to cleopatre than she was from the ones who have built the pyramids when she used to rule over Egypt. It's the same about trexes and this Dino. They never met. (except in ark 🌋)

*_"... of the Jurassic Period"_* then why is there an unmistakable drawing clearly chiseled into a monument of one?

Lessbian and wordplay are strictly 😮

Please get rid of the weird robot narration. Can’t watch this.

Man, this would be a great channel, but I just can't stand the narration.

The jurassic period about 5,000 years ago.

Friends with none and boring people 😴

The Chinese have sculptures of Stegosaurus's from less tthan 2,000 years ago. 🤔 Someone here is not telling the truth. 🤥

way too long of an intro.