New 168-million-year-old stegosaurus species unearthed by scientists

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British scientists have discoverd a new species of stegosaurus that's believed to be the oldest of its kind ever found.

The remains of the armored dinosaur, which had unique plate-shaped bones protruding from its spine, were investigated by a group from the British Natural History Museum.

According to the museum, they belong to a new genus that dates to about 168 million years ago, or the middle Jurassic period, making the remains much older than most known stegosaurs.

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