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monsters in the distance, it had time to get out of the 

 way, either in the water, where its strong tail and hind 

 legs would soon carry it out of reach, or it could find 

 shelter in some hiding-place on land. The Iguanodon 

 itself was quite a harmless creature, with a smooth skin. 



-STE.GOSAVRVS 



It had hands with four fingers, and a sharp, spiky sort of 

 thumb, whose use has not yet been discovered. The toes 

 on its back feet were only three, but they made up in 'size 

 and strength what they wanted in number. 



A great contrast to the smooth-skinned Iguanodon 

 was the Stegosaurus, traces of whose skeleton have been 



