The specimen is especially big and superlatively complete, and could clue researchers into the ancient beast's growth rate and metabolism.
New stegosaurus just dropped—not literally, thank gosh, as that’d be a $44.6 million disaster.by hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin this July. Now, the 150-million-year-old fossil will begin a four-year stay at the American Museum of Natural History, where paleontologists will be able to investigate the animal to better understand the iconic Jurassic herbivore.
“One of the things we want to do is understand changes to the structure of the skeleton through growth of the animal,” Roger Benson, a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History and the museum’s curator-in-charge of fossil amphibians, reptiles, and birds and fossil plants, told Gizmodo at a press preview of the fossil.
Museum paleontologists will soon study one of the animal’s large femurs to better understand its growth, and create a three-dimensional scan of the dinosaur. Since Apex is a mature individual, the slice of femur the team investigates will be especially helpful in producing a growth curve of the stegosaurus. Recent studies suggest that stegosaurus may have had a slower metabolic rate than other dinosaurs, which makes the animal’s age and rate of growth all the more useful.
“In death,” Benson said, “the stegosaurus was more or less curled around itself.” Apex’s chevron impaled the animal’s left shoulder, and a bit of the bone snapped off and stayed put. With the exception of that self-incurred wound, Apex is in good shape.
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