Stegosaurus

Stegosaurus is an extinct genus of stegosaurid dinosaur that lived in North America during the Late Jurassic period.
==Real life==
Stegosaurus is one of the famous for having plates on its back and four spikes at the end of its tail. The brain of Stegosaurus was about the size of a walnut despite its 3 tons body.
==Appearances==
===Literature===
* A sketch of a Stegosaurus (based on a drawing by Ray Lydekker) forms an important plot point in the opening chapters of The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle.
* In Tarzan at the Earth's Core, by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jason Gridley encounters a Stegosaurus in Pellucidar, the world within the Earth. The animal jumps from a height and uses its plates as a gliding mechanism to chase and attack him; the real animal likely could not perform such an act.
* Evelyn Sibley Lampman's The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek is a children's book about twins who find a talking Stegosaurus on their ranch in Oregon. She also wrote a sequel, The Shy Stegosaurus of Indian Springs.
* The main hero and protagonist of Steve Cole's Astrosaurs series is an anthropomorphic Stegosaurus named Captain Teggs.
* In Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park, the main characters come across a sick Stegosaurus at the south of Isla Nublar. It would later be replaced by a Triceratops in the movie adaptation.
===Film===
*The Stegosaurus appears in the 1925 adaptation of The Lost World. (written by Arthur Conan Doyle)
*The Stegosaurus appears in the 1933 version of King Kong.
*The dinosaur appears in Journey to the Beginning of Time.
*In the Jurassic Park film series, the film centers around a proposed theme park, where dinosaurs have been brought back to life. 
**They appear in the original Jurassic Park trilogy and its novelizations, with Jurassic Park being the only film that they do not appear in. 
***In The Lost World: Jurassic Park, a herd of Stegosaurus were walking through the forest as Ian, Nick, and Eddie watches them.
***They later appear in the third and final film, Jurassic World III.
**Stegosaurus also appear in the sequel trilogy, Jurassic World.
*Spike in Land Before Time was a Stegosaurus.
===Television===
*Stegosaurus appeared in Primeval and Doctor Who.
*Transformers
===Games===
===Attractions===
*The Stegosaurus was featured on the following rides based around the Jurassic Park franchise: Jurassic Park: The Ride, Jurassic Park: River Adventure, The Jurassic World: The Ride.
==Gallery==
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