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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Photo: New Stegosaur With Odd Long Neck Discovered


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Stegosaurs have long been identified by the bony plates on their backs, the spikes on their tales, short forelimbs, and stubby little necks.

Now paleontologists have discovered a 150-million-year-old stegosaur (above) in Portugal with a neck that stretched over 5.9 feet (1.8 meters), a February 2009 study reported.

Photograph courtesy Octavio Mateus/Nova de Lisboa University; illustration courtesy Alam Lam/Nova de Lisboa University