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A hole in the tail bone belonging to another Jurassic of its tail. If an enemy like Ceratosaurus tried to creep up from
predator, Allosaurus, was found to be a perfect match with behind—a common predatory tactic—it would be in for a
a Stegosaurus tail spike. It is likely that the stegosaur was nasty shock. With a flick of its spiked tail, the stegosaur could
defending itself from an attack by swinging its tail like a inflict terrible damage, blinding or even killing the hunter
spiked club. Dacentrurus was equipped in exactly the same outright. It might have been a slow-moving plant-eater, but
way, with two pairs of stout, sharp-pointed spikes at the end Dacentrurus could look after itself.

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