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New York museum unveils almost complete stegosaurus

The American Museum of Natural History revealed the identity of its latest resident - "Apex," one of the most complete specimens of the spiny-backed dinosaur known as a stegosaurus ever discovered. To excited gasps from an audience of school children, the museum pulled back a beige curtain to reveal the 11-foot (3.4-m) tall, 20-foot (6-m) long skeleton. "People are really excited about this fossil because stegosaurus is an iconic dinosaur," said the museum's dinosaur curator Roger Benson. "Everyone has their own favorite dinosaur, but stegosaurus is up there in the top five. So it's hard not to get excited about a really complete, large individual of this animal." Stegosaurus was a herbivorous dinosaur that walked on four legs and lived around 150 million years ago, during the Jurassic period. "Although it was a herbivore, stegosaurus wasn't like a cow or a sheep," said Benson. "It's a herbivore that could look after itself. It has these wicked spikes on its tail. It has plates along its back." The fossil was found in Colorado and fetched a record $44.6 million at a Sotheby's auction in July. The buyer has loaned it out to the New York museum, popular with tourists and school children. Those present at the unveiling of Apex were suitably impressed. "I really like it because it's, like, really cool and it's really big, and it's amazing that it spent (many years) in the ground waiting for somebody to scoop in up," said one student. - Report from Reuters Subscribe to the ABS-CBN News channel! - http://bit.ly/TheABSCBNNews Watch full episodes on iWantTFC for FREE here: http://iwanttfc.com Visit our website at http://news.abs-cbn.com Facebook:   / abscbnnews   Twitter:   / abscbnnews   Instagram:   / abscbnnews