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Paleontologists can usually tell whether an animal was a plant eater or meat eater by examining its jaws and teeth. Stegosaurus's teeth show that it was undoubtedly herbivorous.They probably ate mosses, ferns, horsetails, cycads and conifers. A study of the bite force and teeth of Stegosaurus suggests that they couldn't bite through sticks that were more than 1.2 centimeters thick, so they would have needed to eat very tender vegetation.

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