Plates, spikes and 150 million years of cool - our printable stegosaurus mask is a dinosaur lover's dream! The stegosaurus is one of the most recognisable dinosaurs in the world, with those extraordinary diamond-shaped plates running along its back and the fearsome spiked tail making it an unmistakable Jurassic icon. Perfect for dinosaurs school plays, prehistoric animals classroom projects, World Book Day, birthday parties, and magnificently plated imaginative adventures.

The stegosaurus is a perennial favourite in any dinosaur topic and works brilliantly alongside the T-rex and triceratops for a complete Jurassic lineup. Those plates and spikes always generate brilliant questions about what they were actually for. Every mask comes with a full colour version AND a black and white line art version for colouring in.

5 Interesting Facts About Stegosauruses!

The stegosaurus had a brain the size of a walnut - roughly 80 grams in an animal weighing up to 7 tonnes, giving it one of the lowest brain-to-body ratios of any dinosaur. For comparison, a human brain is about 1,300 grams.
Those distinctive back plates may have been for temperature regulation - blood vessels in the plates could have absorbed heat from the sun or radiated excess heat, working like a biological radiator.
The thagomizer was genuinely dangerous - the four spikes on the stegosaurus's tail (officially named the thagomizer by palaeontologists, after a Far Side cartoon) have been found embedded in allosaur bones, proving they were used in combat.
Stegosaurus lived earlier in the Jurassic period than T. rex - stegosaurus and T. rex were separated by more time than T. rex and us. T. rex is chronologically closer to humans than to stegosaurus.
Their plates were likely covered in skin with blood vessels - they would have been colourful and may have flushed with blood when the animal was threatened or excited, functioning as a visual display as well as thermal regulation.

Printable Stegosaurus Mask

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