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In 1992, a nearly complete Stegosaurus was discovered near Canyon City by scientists from the Museum. A cast of this fossil can be seen through the viewing window in the Earth Sciences Lab at the end of the Prehistoric Journey exhibit. It was a significant discovery because it showed patches of armor on the neck for the first time. Other new information from this specimen, such as the position of the tail spikes and the arrangement of the back plates was used in the remounting of the skeleton in this photograph, which is located in Prehistoric Journey. The curator of this specimen is Ken Carpenter, Chief Preparator & Curator of Lower Vertebrate Paleontology
Department of Earth Sciences