article_snippet.sent: Experts are probably one of the most famous dinosaurs to be discovered due to the distinctive line of armoured plates along the most famous dinosaurs to be discovered due to the distinctive line of armoured plates along its back back.
article_snippet.sent: Now new research revealed that male and female stegosaurus had different shaped plates running along male and female stegosaurus backs.
article_snippet.sent: Scientists have found that male stegosaurus (top) had different shaped armoured plates to females (bottom)
article_snippet.sent: Some stegosaurus individuals have been found with wide plates while others had tall plates with a sharper tip that were 45 per cent smaller.
article_snippet.sent: The new research on the armoured plates  may help scientists determine whether 'Sophie', the stegosaurus at the Natural History Museum in London pictured above, really is a female or if it was in fact a male dinosaur .
article_snippet.sent: Some dinosaur experts have speculated that These broad plates may have been covered in skin filled with blood vessels so Some dinosaur experts could flush with colour.
article_snippet.sent: Professor Paul Barrett, a palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum in London where one of the most complete stegosaur skeletons has just gone on display, said: 'It is interesting because it would add to the debate on what These broad plates were for. '
article_snippet.sent: Evan Saitta (shown left with a stegosaurus armoured plate, used a CT scanner to examine These broad plates to see whether they might belong to different sexes.
article_snippet.sent: Evan Saitta (shown left with a stegosaurus armoured plate is shown on the right cutting into the fossil to take samples .
highlights_snippet.sent: Stegosaurus fossils have been found with two different types of plate along Stegosaurus fossils backs - large broad plates and taller sharper plates that are smaller .
  