Stegosaurus That Lost Its Head Gets It Back
After 145 million years, a stegosaurus nicknamed “Spike” has been reunited with his skull and tail.
The full stegosaurus skeleton, unearthed six years ago and described as the most complete such specimen ever found, is being reassembled at the Denver Museum of Natural History for an exhibit early next year.
Paleontologist Bryan Small discovered the stegosaurus in June 1992 about 50 miles southwest of Colorado Springs.
Small’s stegosaurus will join the museum’s other complete stegosaurus fossil, which was discovered in 1937.
Since Small’s discovery, the fossil’s head and tail sections have been displayed at the Denver museum, while preparation work on the body continued.
On Nov. 17, the body parts, encased in plaster, were brought by flatbed truck to the museum, where they will be reunited with the tail and head.
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