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What Colors Were Dinosaurs?

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How Did Dinosaurs Get So Huge?

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Stegosaurs: Tiny Brains & Thagomizers

Season 1 Episode 4

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.

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