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How does a stegosaurus eat?

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12y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Stegosaurus spent much of its time foraging for edible plants. They probably ate mosses, ferns, horsetails, cycads and conifers, but they could only reach plants within three feet of the forest floor, unless they were capable of rearing on their hind legs to reach vegetation high up in the trees.

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