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www.patreon.com/YDAW - It took a while for researchers to confirm that Sauropods had osteoderms acting as a sort of armor. Weirdly enough, this 80s toy featured nodules not long after it was confirmed they had them in 1980...even though the rest of it is an incredibly dated representation.

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