Stegosaurs: Tiny Brains & Thagomizers

If you take it as a given that extinct dinosaurs were all weird and wonderful, then you gotta at least consider that Stegosaurus was one of the weirdest and wonderfulest.

Season 1 Episode 4 Length 04:49 Premiere: 07/17/17

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