Re: can stegosaur run on two legs???

["Jordan Mallon" <j_mallon@hotmail.com>]

> From: ville sinkkonen <ville_sinkkonen@artic.net>

> I just wonder, is it possible that smaler stegosaurs run
> on two legs short time.

It seems to me that by looking at the skeletal reconstruction of at least
one early, (relatively) small stegosaur (_Huayangosaurus taibaii_), this
animal didn't have the tall neural spines in the sacrum that would have been
needed to have supported a bipedal running posture.  That said, I'm not
overly sure about a number of other small stegosaurs, so someone please feel
free to point them out to me and Ville.

-Jordan Mallon

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