{"id":134666,"date":"2024-12-08T09:05:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T02:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134666"},"modified":"2024-12-08T09:05:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T02:05:56","slug":"new-york-museum-unveils-apex-an-almost-complete-stegosaurus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134666","title":{"rendered":"New York museum unveils &#8216;Apex&#8217; \u2014 an almost complete stegosaurus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"articleContainer\">\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014 The American Museum of Natural History revealed the identity of its latest resident on Thursday \u2014 &#8220;Apex,&#8221; one of the most complete specimens ever discovered of the plant-eating dinosaur stegosaurus, known for the upright plates on its back and a spiky tail.<\/p>\n<p>To excited gasps from an audience of school children, the museum pulled back a beige curtain to reveal the 11-foot tall, 20-foot long skeleton of the Jurassic Period dinosaur.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People are really excited about this fossil because stegosaurus is an iconic dinosaur,&#8221; said the museum&#8217;s dinosaur curator Roger Benson.<\/p>\n<p>Stegosaurus walked on four legs and lived in North America around 150 million years ago during the Jurassic period. Its fossils were first discovered in the 1870s.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although it was a herbivore, stegosaurus wasn&#8217;t like a cow or a sheep,&#8221; Benson said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a herbivore that could look after itself. It has these wicked spikes on its tail. It has plates along its back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Those would have been useful as protection against meat-eating dinosaurs like allosaurus.<\/p>\n<p>This stegosaurus fossil was found in Colorado and fetched a record $44.6 million at a Sotheby&#8217;s auction in July. The buyer has loaned it to the New York museum, one of the leading natural history museums in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone has their own favorite dinosaur, but stegosaurus is up there in the Top 5. 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