Thanks to a row of huge bony plates, Stegosaurus remains one of the strangest dinosaurs ever found. Photo by the author at the Utah Field House of Natural History in Vernal, Utah. Undoubtedly familiar ...

The plates of the Stegosaurus — the large, bony discs that lined the dinosaur's neck, back and tail in two staggered rows — may have differed between males and females, a new study finds. An analysis ...

The discovery of a single anatomical difference between males and females of a species of Stegosaurus provides some of the most conclusive evidence that some dinosaurs looked different based on sex, ...

The first convincing evidence for sexual differences in a species of dinosaur has been described in a study of the iconic dinosaur Stegosaurus. Stegosaurus, a large, herbivorous dinosaur with two ...

For extinct creatures like dinosaurs known only from fossils, it is notoriously difficult to tell apart the males from the females of a species because sex distinctions are rarely obvious from the ...

The bony plates on the back of a Stegosaurus, a large, herbivorous dinosaur that lived millions of years ago in the western United States, can now help scientists determine the extinct animal's sex, ...

Sexual dimorphism The shape of the bony plates along the back of the long-extinct Stegosaurus may have differed if the dinosaur were male or female, researchers say. The Stegosaurus was a lumbering, ...

Back in 1677, Robert Plot discovered the first ever dinosaur bone (though humans had likely been turning up such relics for thousands of years without realizing what they were). Back then, of course, ...

They are probably one of the most famous dinosaurs to be discovered due to the distinctive line of armoured plates along its back. Now new research revealed that male and female stegosaurus had ...