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Long neglected after landmark discovery, armored dinosaur finally gets its due By Reuters – Armenian Reporter

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2/2 ©Reuters A life restoration of the Jurassic Period dinosaur Scelidosaurus 2/2
By Will Dunham
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – When the bones of the early armored dinosaur Scelidosaurus were uncovered in 1858 in west Dorset, England, they consisted of the very first total dinosaur skeleton ever recognized.
But aside from brief documents by pioneering British paleontologist Richard Owen in 1861 and 1863 that incompletely explained its anatomy, Scelidosaurus was long neglected regardless of the landm…

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