Danish museum excavates valuable dinosaur species in USA

Evolutionsmuseet at Knuthenborg Safaripark in Denmark will soon exhibit the skeleton of a stegosaurus, currently being excavated in Wyoming, USA. This comes after a stegosaurus skeleton sold for a record $44.6 million at auction in New York. It belongs to the hesperosaurus mjosi species and is one of the most complete and largest of its kind. The museum’s director, Christoffer Knuth, expressed surprise at the uniqueness of the find, particularly the skull, and noted that its significance only became clear during recent research. The skeleton will be restored and analyzed in a laboratory before it arrives in Denmark. It will join other dinosaur skeletons in the museum’s collection, including that of a carnivorous allosaurus. Knuth emphasized the museum’s goal to preserve such heritage for future generations. Stegosauruses were plant-eating dinosaurs with distinctive back plates and had brains the size of a plum.